Using External Web Components with Enhance

We love building web components with Enhance, but we realize that sometimes you may need to pull one off the shelf to include in your app. Follow along to see how to add a Vanilla JS web component to your Enhance app.

Simon MacDonald

read time 2 mins

Code, 2nd Edition: Begin Book Club

If you missed out on our meet up with Charles Petzold on his book, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, you can catch up by watching the video or reading the transcript.

Simon MacDonald

read time 52 mins

Rendering Markdown with Enhance

Frequently folks ask if you can render markdown documents with Enhance and of course you can. Read on to find out how we do it in our projects.

Simon MacDonald

read time 5 mins

Building Underdark with Enhance

I sit down for a conversation with Jonathan Lipps who recently built and deployed his site, Notes from the Underdark, using Enhance.

Simon MacDonald

read time 11 mins

Remote Engineering Management: Begin Book Club

If you missed out on our meet up with Alexandra Sunderland on her book, Remote Engineering Management, you can catch up by watching the video or reading the transcript.

Simon MacDonald

read time 57 mins

Remote Engineering Management: Begin Book Club

An Accessible Modal without JavaScript: The Final Boss

Building an accessible modal is difficult. Doing it without JavaScript _has_ been almost impossible. It’s been called the final boss of accessible components for a long time.

Ryan Bethel

read time 9 mins

An Accessible Modal without JavaScript: The Final Boss

Web Components, Server Side Rendering and Progressive Enhancement, Oh My!

There seems to be a bit of confusion these days about how it is possible to progressively enhance web components since they need JavaScript to function properly. Well, that’s where server-side rendering comes in. Follow along as we build a counter component using web fundamentals.

Simon MacDonald

read time 6 mins

Web Components, Server Side Rendering and Progressive Enhancement, Oh My!

Begin Book Club Selections for October and November

Join us in October, where we'll chat with Alexandra Sunderland about her book Remote Engineering Management. Then in November, Charles Petzold will join us to talk about his book, Code.

Simon MacDonald

read time 2 mins

Begin Book Club Selections for October and November

Enhance makes an appearance on Syntax.fm

Wes and Scott talk about Enhance in their latest episode of Syntax.

Simon MacDonald

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Enhance makes an appearance on Syntax.fm

Using Tailwind CSS with Enhance

Setup your Enhance application to use Tailwind CSS.

Simon MacDonald

read time 3 mins

Styling TodoMVC with Enhance Styles

In this post we'll learn how to style our todo app with @enhance/styles.

Simon MacDonald

read time 4 mins

Enhancing TodoMVC

Porting the venerable TodoMVC app to Enhance. In this post we'll build a todo app without any client-side JavaScript.

Simon MacDonald

read time 2 mins

Announcing a whole new Begin, and our new HTML framework, Enhance

A whole new Begin is coming, designed from the ground up alongside our all-new standards-based HTML framework, Enhance.

Brian LeRoux

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Announcing a whole new Begin, and our new HTML framework, Enhance

The Problem with Forms

Forms have problems! Specifically, user input can have problems, so we need to validate it. Worse, users can be malicious, so we need to validate their input on the backend because they can always bypass the client code.

Simon MacDonald

read time 4 mins

Update Web Content with SMS

Using a few Architect resources with the Vonage SMS API, let's build a dynamic banner alert we can update with just a text message.

Taylor Beseda

read time 6 mins

Progressively Enhancing Form Submissions with Web Components

Web applications should work without JavaScript. Use web components to progressively enhance your app.

Simon MacDonald

read time 6 mins

Progressively Enhancing Form Submissions with Web Components

Kill It with Fire: Begin Book Club

If you missed out on our meet up with Marianne Bellotti on her book, Kill It with Fire, you can catch up by watching the video or reading the transcript.

Simon MacDonald

read time 64 mins

Typings for Architect Functions

Architect's Node.js runtime helpers, @architect/functions v5.2, includes bundled type definitions. These typings offer several benefits to both TypeScript and JavaScript developers.

Taylor Beseda

read time 2 mins

Validating POST Data Against JSON Schema

A new package to help validate incoming POST requests

Simon MacDonald

read time 3 mins

Forms that work. Every time. Everywhere.

Progressive enhancement for HTML Forms

Ryan Bethel

read time 9 mins

Forms that work. Every time. Everywhere.