6 posts tagged with "react"

Wouter is amazingly lightweight, and if it can do much work in a tiny package, so can you!

EmailOctopus is a lovely newsletter site, and I do enjoy the fact that their UI is quite well done and user friendly, and on the technical side they have EmailOctopus Connect, which is allows for lower email costs. They bill by subscriber count though, so for any seriously large subscriber counts it would make more sense to self-host, but I like using them for small projects (like this blog for example) which will never ever see more than a handful of subscribers.

Building great UI elements are hard, and after working in the front end space for so long, I've come to appreciate component libraries that let you get up and running at lightning speed.

So of course, I have come to realise and appreciate how steadfast and solid the Material UI library is. Granted, not everyone likes the design of Material UI out of the box, but the ability to not have to integrate and merge stylesheets from disparate tools is quite freeing.

In any case, lets get back to the meat of today's discussion, adding Material UI to a browser extension.

Generating pages dynamically instead of relying on a 1-1 relationship of files to web pages seems to be an often overlooked aspect of static site generators, and Docusaurus is no exception. However, with some prowess and tinkering with the plugin system, we can definitely make the "impossible" possible, and generate pages from whatever data source we want.

Interested? Read on...

Everyone loves a well executed dark mode, me included. I think that having a full blast of white light in the middle of the night should be considered as bad as a slap in the face — you're most definitely awake after getting it.