New post: "The only frontend stack we should talk about" — my thoughts after our talk at the @ctwebdev conference last week.
New post: "The only frontend stack we should talk about" — my thoughts after our talk at the @ctwebdev conference last week.
I showed it yesterday at #ctwebdev in Cologne, but I had to write it down, since it is just no magic, just a different look at the HTML tags of a <table>.
"CSS Bar Chart"
I am concluding this article by:
If HTML (or browsers) say tabular data have to look a certain way it's our responsibility to ask "why not different?".
Done hereby.
Have fun reading, distirbuting, talking about, applying it in your daily work and so on.
And please give me feedback!
At the [c't webdev conference](https://ct-webdev.com/) I showed yesterday that pure HTML, CSS and JS are quite powerful, hence the name of my talk "View Source is Back - Why framework-less matters in 2025 (and beyond)". A part of the live-coding (what I like to do) was turning a plain table into a bar chart using nothing but CSS. It's a tiny trick, but a great reminder of how much raw power the web offers.
"View Source Is Back: Why Framework-Free Matters in 2025" the title of my talk
I was live-coding a couple things,
- simply improving a table with some CSS
- "convert" a <table> into a bar chart, just CSS
- make <details> your navigation
- restoring scroll position
I also mentioned:
- monitorEvents() (non-standard)
- performance.getEntries()
- nested CSS
All for making your (super fast) MPA feel more like an SPA.
Also available at: https://picossg.dev/tools/picospa/
Finished this conference year with my talk "Fullstack #React - Server-first or client-first?", a comparison of #TanStack Start and #Next.js at #ctwebdev.
You can find my slides and code examples here: https://nilshartmann.net/t/fullstack-react-server-first-or-client-first-ct-web-dev
See you next year 👋
"you need people on the team who want to maintain HTML and CSS"
#ctwebdev
Sad but true
On Nov 19, @ajkuebler and I will be on stage at the c't <webdev> conference to tell a tale about:
- "Boring" but incredibly powerful web standards
- Breaking down traditional silos
- How team dynamics and changing requirements drove multiple tech stack pivots
- What we learned along the way
@ctwebdev
https://ct-webdev.com
18. - 20. November
Köln