A collection of 342 posts
I’ve recently been rediscovering all the input fields that HTML offers and how they can help developers build more straightforward user experiences. The library of native HTML controls is impressive, with 22 HTML input types as of this post.
I was recently working on an HTMX and ASP.NET Core demo and wanted to limit client-to-server requests to valid requests. This is a built-in feature for HTMX, as long as you utilize HTML5 validators on your forms and inputs. As...
When creating a new ASP.NET Core application, you get a set of middleware that performs typical web application duties. Some include serving static assets, routing, HTTPS redirection, and exception handling. Folks looking will also notice a middleware registration of the...
I recently read a classic blog post from the RavenDB community recommending developers think twice about exposing primary identifiers in their URLs. There are several reasons for this, which I’ll summarize in this post, but I wanted to revisit the...
State machines are so integral to software development that they often seem invisible to developers. They are used so frequently yet abstracted away through APIs and syntax that many developers don’t directly deal with them. However, we’d like to.
I love the web and HTML. It’s certainly come a long way since its inception and what it provides as a core experience for web developers. While folks can certainly build HTML-exclusive experiences, adding forms on a page inevitably leads...
When working in .NET, there’s a lot of room for reorganizing a codebase, but sometimes we can organize ourselves into a mess of a problem. Recently, when working on an ASP.NET Core Minimal API demo, I seemingly broke an endpoint’s...
Web components are some of the most exciting technology I’ve seen in a long time. They promise to revolutionize how we write, maintain, and ship HTML-based applications. With web components, you can extend the set of HTML tags specific to...
In a previous post, ]I wrote about using RazorComponentResult to render Blazor components](/how-to-use-blazor-server-rendered-components-with-htmx) from ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs. The ability allows developers to reuse Blazor components in new and exciting scenarios, specifically with JavaScript UI frameworks and libraries such as...
I’ve been on a Rust learning journey lately, and it’s had me thinking about how I can consume Rust libraries from existing .NET applications. The .NET team has done much work regarding interoperability during the .NET 6 to .NET 8...
