Modernizing Your Application: Where to Begin
Upgrading a legacy application can seem daunting. This series will guide you through the process, highlighting strategies for a smooth transition without disrupting your current operations.
Essentials
Who can you trust with your online business?
I get a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach when I have to tell someone that there is something deeply wrong with their website—especially when I know that it is too late to fix it. I hate that feeling. And I felt it twice recently.
Introducing Pleasantest
Pleasantest is a library that integrates with Jest to help you write UI tests that interact with real browsers. It uses Puppeteer to launch and control browsers, Testing Library to find elements on the page, and jest-dom to make assertions against the DOM.
A Bashful Button Worth $8 Million
My father-in-law loves the Olive Garden. So of course that's what we offered to bring for our first post-vaccination meal. I grabbed my iPad and passed it around to build an order. Everything went smoothly until I tried to checkout. The checkout button was off screen and impossible to hit. So I investigated why this was happening and took a guess at how much this bug might cost the Olive Garden’s owners.
Transitioning Hidden Elements
If you’ve ever tried to use a CSS transition on an element with the hidden attribute or display: none;, you know this can be a challenge. I’ve run into this problem a number of times…
Cloud Four’s Core Values
When Cloud Four was founded back in 2007, the founders set out a vision for the type of company they wanted to build. This has set the tone of the company since then, specifically…
CSS Circles
I accidentally became Cloud Four's resident expert on dynamic circular containing elements. Here are my tips and tricks.
Designing Button States
Rethinking the way we prioritize interaction states to design more useful, versatile and delightful button patterns.
Progressive Web Apps Simply Make Sense
Progressive Webs Apps versus native misses the point. Here is a simple case for Progressive Web Apps that even native app developers can agree with.
Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t
Many people know that you can scan your credit card in Mobile Safari. But how many web developers know how to create a form that supports that feature? Not many I’d bet. Auto-Fill…