We all know and love using variables in our SASS files, it’s basically the most often used selling point for SASS and LESS and along with things like mixins and nesting it’s what I use the most out of all of those tools’ features. Using CSS Variables CSS Variables are super easy to use. If you’ve used a CSS preprocessor before you already know how they work and why we’d use them. I’ll give the rest of the audience a quick run through though. ...
Why CSS Grid caught my attention It seems like everywhere I’ve been lurking lately including the office has had people talk about CSS grid and what it means for developers and how we build websites. I sat down this week to really try and understand CSS grid, what it does and how it works. I’m a huge fan of Flexbox so I initially I didn’t care as much. I think now that I’m spending more time looking at it I think CSS grid coupled with Flexbox is going to be the way to go in the future and put us all out of a job, especially with AI and Machine Learning building websites for us. ...
Lately I’ve been working on a website that integrates Google Custom Search Engine (GCSE). I haven’t worked with GCSE before and found it somewhat difficult to work with. The API and creating the search is a really easy process and the Google team did a great job with sensible defaults. The main problem for our team was that we had already built a search component in our front-end build that looked like this: ...