My very own CSS framework avalanche, uses BackstopJS for regression testing. Unfortunately, for the most time, this didn't work as expected on my continuous integration service of choice: Travis CI. The rendering of fonts is slightly different on the Linux image which is used on Travis CI compared to macOS which I use for development...
The concept of Middleware in frameworks like Laravel makes it fairly easy to do things like requiring an authenticated user for specific routes. Today we explore how we can implement a similar concept in the Vue.js world using the Vue Router...
Clients love them most web developers hate them: sliders with fancy transition effects. Today we’ll build a straightforward implementation of an image slider featuring the famous Ken Burns transition effect...
Most of my articles are about the latest and greatest tools and technologies out there. One of the nice things about writing blog articles is that you can devote yourself fully to exploring new technologies. There is no client dictating the specifications, and there is no legacy code and technologies you need to consider...
For a long time, I was able to abstain, but now the time has come: I'm jumping on the Serverless hype train. Today we build a Serverless comment system powered by Netlify Functions, and we use the headless CMS Storyblok as a database (on steroids) to store the comments entered by our users...
In today's article, we take a closer look at how we can build our own custom lazy loading image component with Vue.js. We use the fast and lightweight Lozad.js package for handling the lazy loading logic for us, and we enhance it with the ability to display the dominant color of the image as a fallback color...
In recent weeks I played around with a ton of headless content management systems. To cut a long story short: there are a lot of bad and a couple of pretty good ones out there. At the end of my journey, I was left with two systems I both very much enjoy: Contentful and Storyblok...
In recent weeks I played around with a ton of headless content management systems. To cut a long story short: there are a lot of bad and a couple of pretty good ones out there. At the end of my journey, I was left with two systems I both very much enjoy: Contentful and Storyblok...
In recent weeks I played around with a ton of headless content management systems. To cut a long story short: there are a lot of bad and a couple of pretty good ones out there. At the end of my journey, I was left with two systems I both very much enjoy: Contentful and Storyblok...
In my recent article, we built a landing page type website powered by a headless CMS and Vue.js. We've seen how quickly we can build a simple site with these two technologies. However there is still a major problem with the result of our work: the loading performance is pretty terrible...