Saturday, July 27

Tag: style

The State of Changing Gradients with CSS Transitions and Animations
1Jun By Ana TudorNo Comments
CSS Tricks

The State of Changing Gradients with CSS Transitions and Animations

  Back in 2012, Internet Explorer 10 came out and, among other things, it finally supported CSS gradients and, in addition to that, the ability to animate them with just CSS! No other browser supported this at the time, but I was hopeful for the future. Sadly, six years have passed and nothing has changed in this department. Edge supports animating gradients with CSS, just like IE 10 did back then, but no other browser has added support for this. And while animating background-size or background-position or the opacity or rotation of a pseudo element layered on top can take us a long way in terms of achieving cool effects, these workarounds are still limited. There are effects we cannot reproduce without adding lots of extra elements or lots of extra gradients, such as "the bli...
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Forms, Auth and Serverless Functions on Gatsby and Netlify
31May By Maxime Laboissonni reNo Comments
CSS Tricks

Forms, Auth and Serverless Functions on Gatsby and Netlify

  Abstracting infrastructure is in our DNA. Roads, schools, water supply networks—you get the idea. Web development is no exception: serverless architectures are a beautiful expression of that phenomenon. Static sites, in particular, are turning into dynamic, rich experiences. Handling static forms, authentication, and backend functions on statically-generated sites is now a thing. Especially with the JAMstack pioneer platform that is Netlify. Recently, they announced support of AWS Lambda functions on front-end-centric sites and apps. I've been meaning to dive into their "backend" features since. Today, I'm doing just that, using a static Gatsby site, Netlify's Forms, Identity, and Functions features. This tutorial will show you how to: Add static forms to your site Ad...
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