New in Enhance: Browser JS Workflow

New in Enhance: Browser JS Workflow

The Enhance web framework now has a built-in pipeline for your project's browser JavaScript. Easily import and bundle Node.js modules into your client-side code.

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Taylor Beseda
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Using Lit Components in an Enhance App

Using Lit Components in an Enhance App

Lit is a popular library that can be used to build web components. Lit can play nice with Enhance with a little modification.

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Simon MacDonald
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Selecting 3rd Party Web Components

Selecting 3rd Party Web Components

As more Web Components are published as re-usable modules, it's helpful to have some criteria when selecting third party libraries to incorporate new features.

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Taylor Beseda
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Enhancing Vanilla Web Components

Enhancing Vanilla Web Components

In this post we'll show you how to Enhance a Vanilla web component, so that it arrives fully expanded on the client by avoiding the use of the Shadow DOM.

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Simon MacDonald
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HTML Custom Element as a Feature API

HTML Custom Element as a Feature API

Utilize a custom element definition as a friendlier interface for app features leveraging external front-end libraries.

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Taylor Beseda
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Using External Web Components with Enhance

Using External Web Components with Enhance

We love building web components with Enhance, but we realize that sometimes you may need to pull one off the shelf to include in your app. Follow along to see how to add a Vanilla JS web component to your Enhance app.

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Simon MacDonald
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Code, 2nd Edition: Begin Book Club

Code, 2nd Edition: Begin Book Club

If you missed out on our meet up with Charles Petzold on his book, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, you can catch up by watching the video or reading the transcript.

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Simon MacDonald
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Rendering Markdown with Enhance

Rendering Markdown with Enhance

Frequently folks ask if you can render markdown documents with Enhance and of course you can. Read on to find out how we do it in our projects.

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Simon MacDonald
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Building Underdark with Enhance

Building Underdark with Enhance

I sit down for a conversation with Jonathan Lipps who recently built and deployed his site, Notes from the Underdark, using Enhance.

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Simon MacDonald
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Remote Engineering Management: Begin Book Club

Remote Engineering Management: Begin Book Club

If you missed out on our meet up with Alexandra Sunderland on her book, Remote Engineering Management, you can catch up by watching the video or reading the transcript.

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Simon MacDonald
57 mins to read

An Accessible Modal without JavaScript: The Final Boss

An Accessible Modal without JavaScript: The Final Boss

Building an accessible modal is difficult. Doing it without JavaScript _has_ been almost impossible. It’s been called the final boss of accessible components for a long time.

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Ryan Bethel
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Web Components, Server Side Rendering and Progressive Enhancement, Oh My!

Web Components, Server Side Rendering and Progressive Enhancement, Oh My!

There seems to be a bit of confusion these days about how it is possible to progressively enhance web components since they need JavaScript to function properly. Well, that’s where server-side rendering comes in. Follow along as we build a counter component using web fundamentals.

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Simon MacDonald
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Begin Book Club Selections for October and November

Begin Book Club Selections for October and November

Join us in October, where we'll chat with Alexandra Sunderland about her book Remote Engineering Management. Then in November, Charles Petzold will join us to talk about his book, Code.

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Simon MacDonald
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Enhance makes an appearance on Syntax.fm

Enhance makes an appearance on Syntax.fm

Wes and Scott talk about Enhance in their latest episode of Syntax.

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Simon MacDonald
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Using Tailwind CSS with Enhance

Using Tailwind CSS with Enhance

Setup your Enhance application to use Tailwind CSS.

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Simon MacDonald
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Styling TodoMVC with Enhance Styles

Styling TodoMVC with Enhance Styles

In this post we'll learn how to style our todo app with @enhance/styles.

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Simon MacDonald
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Enhancing TodoMVC

Enhancing TodoMVC

Porting the venerable TodoMVC app to Enhance. In this post we'll build a todo app without any client-side JavaScript.

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Simon MacDonald
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Announcing a whole new Begin, and our new HTML framework, Enhance

Announcing a whole new Begin, and our new HTML framework, Enhance

A whole new Begin is coming, designed from the ground up alongside our all-new standards-based HTML framework, Enhance.

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Brian LeRoux
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The Problem with Forms

The Problem with Forms

Forms have problems! Specifically, user input can have problems, so we need to validate it. Worse, users can be malicious, so we need to validate their input on the backend because they can always bypass the client code.

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Simon MacDonald
4 mins to read

Update Web Content with SMS

Update Web Content with SMS

Using a few Architect resources with the Vonage SMS API, let's build a dynamic banner alert we can update with just a text message.

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Taylor Beseda
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