Why Sparkbox Loves TypeScript
Support and adoption of TypeScript has grown exponentially in the last few years. Companies and products like Netflix, Airbnb, Slack, and Lyft, just to name a few, all utilize TypeScript in their applications.
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Relaunching Sparkbox.com
Learn how Sparkbox avoided the “cobbler’s children have no shoes” problem with updates to its website and the Foundry.
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Rendering Markdown in Contentful Rich Text
As we are migrating The Foundry’s CMS to Contentful, it doesn’t come without challenges to ensure that we are able to have all the styles currently used. Learn how we are balancing different solutions to do just that like rendering markdown in the rich text editor.
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Rethinking Null
Null is often treated as a useful representation of no data, but maybe we should rethink this. As one Sparkboxer was learning more about Rust, they discovered that the best way to handle null should be to configure it as a fail state as early as possible.
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Building an Eleventy Starter Template: Legacy JS Builds and TypeScript Support
If you want to support both legacy and modern browsers without sacrificing performance you’ve got to get creative. In the latest installment of the Eleventy Starter Repo series, we show you how—with legacy JavaScript builds and TypeScript support.
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Building an Eleventy Starter Template: JavaScript
In the last article of our Eleventy Starter Repo series, we taught you how to create flexible CSS support with SCSS. Today, you’ll learn how to add support for JavaScript with a modern bundling process, linting, and testing.
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A Lukewarm Approval of CSS-in-JS
CSS-in-JS can be a worthwhile tool for many projects, even from the perspective of someone who is a die-hard SCSS user. Let’s go through an overview of the CSS-in-JS and the pros and cons of using it instead of Sass.
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The Hidden Cost of Code Dependencies
Relying on third-party code can be a dangerous balancing act. Let’s explore the pros and cons of dependencies in a modern frontend ecosystem.
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ES6 Frontend Test Environment
Get access to and set up a frontend test environment that can work with user events for a JavaScript ES6 project with Jest and the DOM Testing Library.
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Going Headless with GraphCMS
Learn to use a headless CMS, which gives you the editing capabilities of a monolithic architecture with the freedom to build a frontend layer however you want.
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