#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 20252 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 20252 min read

#forms #ux #frontend

Web Engineering

Tailwind 4 made CSS configuration feel like CSS

Tailwind v4 moved more of the system into CSS itself, which made the theme layer easier to read in the browser's language.

January 29 20253 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 20242 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 20243 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 20234 min read

#design tokens #design systems #frontend