#frontend

Posts tagged with frontend.

Web Engineering

Forms deserve the boring states

The quality of a form shows up in loading, empty, invalid, and submitted states more than in the first screenshot.

April 5 20255 min read

#forms #frontend #ux

Product Engineering

Forms are where product quality leaks

Form quality shows up in pending, failed, duplicate, and partially valid states more than in the first screenshot.

February 5 20257 min read

#forms #ux #frontend

Web Engineering

Tailwind 4 made CSS configuration feel like CSS

Tailwind CSS v4 moved more of the system into CSS itself, which made configuration feel less separate from styling.

January 29 20256 min read

#tailwind #css #frontend

Web Engineering

React 19 made form state feel native again

React 19 stabilized a set of APIs that made async UI feel less like plumbing and more like application code.

December 10 20245 min read

#react #forms #frontend

Web Engineering

CSS gets better when it has fewer opinions

Most site styling improves when the design system has fewer special cases and more predictable defaults.

December 4 20246 min read

#css #design systems #frontend

Design tokens need owners

Tokens are useful only when somebody owns the meaning, migration path, and exceptions.

September 14 20236 min read

#design tokens #design systems #frontend