Blog & Artikel von Joy Heron

Custom Elements are NOT for Templating

Custom elements are a main technology included in the Web Components Browser specification. They provide a set of APIs for adding custom behavior and interactions to an HTML element – and they do this very well. However, they often are unfairly compared with JavaScript component frameworks. Custom elements were never intended to be a drop-in replacement for a JavaScript framework. This article focuses on what custom elements are, what they do well, and, most importantly, what they do not do.

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Innovation in the web without sacrificing accessibility

We’ve truly stretched the boundaries of what is possible on the web. However, to do this we’ve sacrificed semantic HTML and made our applications inaccessible to a huge amount of different users. Instead of breaking the foundation of the web, we should consider this as an opportunity: how can we implement applications in a way that works for any user who might come along and want to interact with it?

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Don’t tell me I’m not building a web application

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JavaScript? Gern, aber bitte in Maßen

Die Vorteile eines klassischen Architekturansatzes für Web-Anwendungen

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A Playground for Testing OpenID Connect

This post describes how you can set up a development environment in order to play around with your OpenID client implementation. When running your application in a cluster, it can be difficult to test how it will behave behind a load balancer. One factor that can be particularly difficult to test is when you are communicating with an OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect server which expects that a request will be redirected back to the same application instance that it came from.

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The Power of the HTML Form

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Simplicity - Fighting Complexity At All Costs

My colleague recently wrote an excellent post discussing the functional and object-oriented paradigms. As someone who comes from a functional programming background, I definitely agreed with one thing: We need to stop building arbitrary walls that prevent us from learning from and helping each other.