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If you’ve done any frontend development in the past decade, you’ve likely interacted with Bootstrap, a toolkit focused on providing developers with CSS layout rules and components. Additionally, no frontend toolkit is complete with the accompanying JavaScript to make components...
An essential part of working on open-source libraries is conveying the value and useability of said library—a well-written “readme” file, while not a substitute for complete documentation, can help onboard new users and increase the joy of using your code....
I maintain an ASP.NET Core enhancement library focused on integrating HTMX naturally into your web development workflow. It works great, but I must admit that HTMX is doing much of the heavy lifting regarding developer experience; it’s incredible! That said,...
Have you ever had to clean up your users’ input, only to realize the pain and aggravation it can lead to with all the unnecessary memory overhead? I recently had an “aha!” moment and thought I would share this tip...
Regarding the .NET ecosystem, we’ve become spoiled with great tooling choices from Visual Studio, JetBrains Rider, VS Code, and NeoVIM, not to mention the extension ecosystem like ReSharper, CodeRush, and OzCode. As a result, the ability to define your development...
Entity Framework Core 7 introduced developers to JSON column support. I even wrote about it on the JetBrains .NET blog, and it has been generally well-received. However, recently a user tried my sample project, only to find that they could...
If you’re building web applications, you’ll likely have to write some JavaScript, so why not write the best JavaScript you can? The JavaScript ecosystem has evolved with an emphasis on performance and user experience, and if you’ve avoided writing JavaScript...
JetBrains Rider is a fantastic tool, and full disclosure, as of writing this post, I am a developer advocate for JetBrains. XUnit is also an excellent unit testing framework, and their combined powers create an out-of-this-world testing experience.
Sharing is caring, and what’s more affectionate than sharing Razor Pages functionality with the .NET community? Well, a lot of other things, but sharing Razor Pages can help you deliver functionality to the other developers that would otherwise be difficult...
I’ve recently been doing a lot of work with TypeScript and Vite, and one of the issues I’ve run into is my vite.config.ts file can become a mess almost too quickly. Unfortunately, Vite’s strength of configurability is also its most...
