How to avoid errors when passing boolean state values as custom attributes to React styled-components — Overview: Transient Props allow you to pass boolean value props to styled-components such that they do not render as an element’s attributes on the DOM. This prevents the errors and allows for some more complex use of styled-component props. By preceding a component’s boolean attribute with a $, styled-components will…

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Dark Mode is popular, and for good reason. Does it require less energy? Only on some devices. Does it reduce eyestrain? It actually doesn’t. Does it look damn good? Absolutely. The undertaking of creating a Dark Mode for your personal website is a pursuit that shouldn’t just follow a trend…

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Something I learned about recently is HTML5’s Data Attributes data-* attributes allow us to store extra information on standard, semantic HTML elements without other hacks such as non-standard attributes, or extra properties on DOM. In other words, Data Attributes allow us to store data in your markup that you can…

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