Dave Bitter

Let's have a look at React Portals and how they can help you in a pinch.

We finally have (experimental) View Transitions for Multi-page Apps (MPA)! Let’s explore why this is cool and how we can use it.

TensorFlow.js is an incredibly powerful JavaScript library for training and deploying machine learning models in the browser and Node. js. Let’s explore this library by building a teachable machine!

A large part of adding interactivity to your applications is through forms. Single Page Applications SPAs have not always handled this part the best. Let’s have a look at how we can use React.js Server Actions to handle your forms progressively enhanced.

As developers and designers, we make a plethora of design decisions while building a website. We try to cater to everybody, but that is an impossible task. So how can we listen to some of the preferences of our users?

AI-powered speech synthesis is getting incredibly realistic. This opens up many possibilities to generate realistic audio based on the text you provide. Whilst relatively fast, the latency still isn’t low enough for “real-time synthesis”. Let’s optimise that!

How can I improve the way someone interacts with ChatGPT? How can I make it feel more natural than a dreadful “chatbot”? Can I create something cool? Those were some of the questions I asked myself recently while starting a two-day hackathon at iO. I’ll take you through what I build, how, and most importantly, why.

Transform your web app with two lines of code – create seamless animated interactions using the View Transitions API.

Application state can make any application complex real quick. Let’s have a look at Finite State Machines in Javascript to resolve some of these complexities.

Explore the advantages of IndexedDB over the Web Storage API as a more efficient and sophisticated alternative for storing structured data on the client, eliminating the need for repetitive JSON parsing and stringifying operations.

In this article, we will look at how you can make your GitHub profile stand out from the crowd.

Learn how to keep your component libraries simple, easy to use, and adaptable to many use cases by leveraging Inversion of Control through Compound Components.

The View Transitions API has landed in Chrome. Let’s have a look at how the API works and why it will change the feel of the web.

An incredibly powerful API exists to access the local file system of a user. Let’s have a look at how this works and why this could be interesting for your next project.

A big part of working with React.js is fetching data and displaying the results. Let’s see how the new React.use() hook can can help you!

Let’s have a look at how you can better structure your CSS layers with CSS Cascade Layers!

Even with our best intentions as developers, we all make mistakes. XSS being one of the most common web vulnerabilities on the web proves that we need to better defend ourselves and our users against this. Let’s see how Trusted Types can help us!

Unfortunately, sometimes you need to write viewport-based logic in your JavaScript code. Usually, this is done with a listener on the window for a resize. Let’s look at a better way.

How to build a component library Part 4: Setting up CI/CD & hosting.

How to build a component library Part 3: Setting up linting, unit, snapshot and visual regression testing.

How to build a component library Part 2: Picking a front-end framework and setting up Storybook.

How to build a component library Part 1: Setting up a Monorepo, Semver strategy and Private package registry.

Many online services will help you with cropping an image while keeping face(s) in view. We can however do this just using an (experimental) browser native API. Let’s build it!

Projects often become legacy in a incredibly short time. I have spoken to people in technology with a variety of skills, experience and roles. Time to find out how they think about this, what tips they have to prevent these issues and more.

There has been a lot of buzz around the open-source release of Remix. I took a first look by following the deep-dive tutorial and this is what I found.