The modern frontend stack is all about reusable components. The renderless component pattern is one of the most elegant ways of how to build highly reusable components. Today we'll build a renderless component for handling form submission, loading and error logic in a generic and reusable way. Additionally we'll take a look at how we can use the new reCAPTCHA v3 to secure our form from spam submissions...
Over the last couple of years as a web developer, I've seen the same pattern over and over again: the homepage becomes a political issue within a company because every department wants to present itself and, of course, every department considers itself the most important. Usually, two things happen: a slider is added at the top of the page so that each department can get its slide at the very top, and more and more stuff is added to the homepage...
In today's article, we take a look at how we can use the Google Maps API in combination with Vue.js. We build a simple Vue.js component, which renders a Google Map. Furthermore, we learn how to listen for click events on markers and how we can cluster multiple markers in close distance to each other...
Static site generators are on the rise. To be more specific: static site generators like Gatsby.js (React) and VuePress (Vue.js) which are based on modern frontend frameworks are becoming more and more popular. Although those are great projects and especially the developer experience is amazing, there is one huge downside of using those systems to generate mostly static, text and image based websites...
Recently, I've been thinking a lot about variables in (Sass based) design systems. My approach with avalanche, and more recently with the design system we're building at work, always was to use variables for everything from spacings to colors and things like border radius...
If you test Vue.js Components with a certain complexity, oftentimes you'll be faced with the situation of repeating the same component initialization code again and again. There are multiple patterns to deal with situations like that but today we'll take a look at how we can solve this problem by using a wrapper factory function...
In this article, we explore how to build a Vue.js component for handling parallax scrolling. And how to structure the components in a way, which makes them very flexible and highly reusable...
In today's article we'll take a closer look at Gridsome and how it compares to the well established Nuxt.js. We will integrate the headless CMS Storyblok as a datasource for Gridsome an we'll build a simple site to demonstrate the capabilities of those systems...
Today we'll take a look at how we can build a simple content slider with Vue.js. We'll use the renderless component technique to create a reusable component which we then use to build multiple versions of a content slider...
Although there is some debate as to whether skeleton loading screens do enhance the perceived performance or not, there seems to be some evidence that they do work if they are done right. So today we'll take a look at how we can implement the skeleton loading animation pattern with Vue.js...