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Alpine.js is great for writing widgets. localStorage/sessionStorage are Web APIs that enable JavaScript application to store data beyond the life of the current JavaScript process. This is useful for example if we wanted to persist our todos when the user closes the tab and comes ...

Alpine.js magic properties are crucial to leveraging its best features. When using Alpine.js in a “mainly markup” configuration (no script tags), the magic properties tend to be accessible seamlessly. Alpine.js magic properties are as follows: $el: the element to whi ...

Warning this uses Alpine.js v2 internals, there isn’t currently a public-facing API to do this. As an active Alpine.js and Alpine.js Devtools contributor, I’ve had the pleasure of explaining how to access Alpine.js component data from outside the component and of usin ...

Learn how to share information between Alpine.js components with the $dispatch magic property and the window/document as an event bus. This post will show how to trigger and listen to global/window/document events with Alpine.js in order to use it as an event bus to communicate b ...

Have you ever wanted to build something as a web developer? The answer is probably…yes. A common problem web developers have is that they don’t know WHAT to build and HOW to build them. Well, you’ve come to the right place. This is a list of 17 web apps you can ...

One of the jQuery ecosystem’s greatest strength is the wealth of drop-in plugins available. Alpine.js is a great way to phase out jQuery spaghetti code from current and future projects with its declarative nature and small bundle size. What Alpine doesn’t have (yet), ...

With ES6+, more developers should be leveraging built-ins than are using lodash functions. This post will go through how to remove duplicates ie. get distinct/unique values from an Array using ES6 Set. This gives you a one-line implementation of lodash/underscore’s uniq f ...

In a recent project I needed to fail/pass some AVA if a runtime environment variable was unset or empty. Here’s how I solved this issue. AVA is a test runner for Node.js with a concise API, detailed error output, embrace of new language features and process isolation that l ...

For those looking to write a package and publish it to npm, TypeScript + microbundle is a low-friction way to build a high-quality library. I’ve created a GitHub repository template with microbundle, TypeScript, ava and xo. You can find it at github.com/HugoDF/microbundle-t ...

Despite the JavaScript Date warts, it’s straightforward to add day(s) to a date in JavaScript. While it would be very easy to reach for moment.js or another date manipulation library (date-fns, luxon, dayjs) to do something as simple as adding days to a Date in JavaScript, ...