Blog

My favorite content from December 2018 – enjoy and happy new year!

Recently I was reading Twitter and stumbled across a tweet by Dan Abramov. He shared a short code snippet that caught my eye. It included some JavaScript which accessed an input element from the DOM and read or changed some of its properties. What was exciting and surprising to me was the property defaultValue.

I immediately opened MDN to read more about this property of HTTMLInputElements and stumbled upon a few more properties that I wasn't aware of, which lead me to write this quick article.

Setting up a development machine can be a tedious process. Building software products relies heavily on things like your favorite editor or IDE to be productive, it depends on installed dependencies like databases, shell programs or servers to actually run and update your software. Turns out you really can develop websites, make them editable and later deploy them from any computer using powerful online services today.

Static sites are gaining popularity. Big publishers like Smashing Magazine rely on static site generation to serve content faster. And they do it without worrying about security fixes or scalable server setups. All you need for static site generation is a CI service that kicks off your build and a static hosting provider to serve your generated static files which we then enrich with serverless technologies.

The future of static sites is JavaScript-based and here’s why!