Common CSS Mistakes (And How To Fix Them)

These are some common causes of design, scalability, performance and maintainability…

CSS Utility Classes: How To Use Them Effectively 🔥

Battle of the architectures

A look at two popular approaches to CSS, and why I think they are not good enough.

There’s been a lot of debate in the front-end world about what “good CSS” means, and how we should be architecting…

Stop Concatenating Your CSS/JS

Remember when concatenating all your CSS and Javascript files into one was a best practice? Not anymore

Concatenation is dangerous

Front-End Tip: Testing Component Accessibility with CSS

A very simple technique to bring inaccessible components to the surface before they make it into production.

Stateful Theming with CSS Custom Properties

A simple & straightforward approach to theming UI’s

For about a month I’ve been working on a client project that requires the use of different UI themes over different contexts.

Enforcing Accessible States in CSS

Historically, I’ve been a fan of using state classes, prefixed with a namespace like .is- or.has- . And I’ve seen a lot of developers go this route as well.

However, the more I work with state classes the more I realize they often incur in a…

Should your site work without JS?

Why Javascript as a dependency is just fine