Monthly Archives: March 2018

Setting CSS variables to theme a design system can be tricky: if they are too scoped, the system will lose consistency. If they are too global, you lose granularity.

Maybe we can fix both issues. I’d like to try to boil design system variables down to two types: Global and Component variables. Global variables will give us consistency across components. Component variables will give us granularity and isolation. Let me show you how to do it by taking a fairly simple component as an example.

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We’re so used to either a backend language or a JavaScript framework powering our data-backed components. I love me a Rails partial with a bunch of locals: {} or a <Component ...props /> but you don’t have to give up on components even if working in static HTML. With Nunjucks, which has includes and templates and macros, we have a robust toolset for building component-based sites that are easy, fast, and secure to host.

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I’ve been working on a website in which large pictures are displayed to the user. Instead of creating a typical lightbox effect (a zoom-in animation with a black overlay) for these large pictures, I decided to try and make something more interactive and fun. I ended up coding an image container that tilts as the user moves the mouse cursor above it.

Here’s the final version:

See the Pen MrLopq by Mihai (@MihaiIonescu) on CodePen.

This effect …

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