A collection of 115 posts
Every development career has milestone moments. One we all likely share is building a custom content management system, or CMS, as developers like to refer to it. A common approach to melding metadata and content is utilizing the old reliable...
If you’ve spent time around web development or your grocery store’s baked goods aisle, you’ve probably dealt with cookies. Let’s discuss the web kind today. A cookie is a header key-value pair that is set on the server using the...
ASP.NET Core has a superpower that few other frameworks have, largely thanks to the Razor engine. Razor syntax is a mix of HTML and C#, and most Razor syntax implementations will skew heavily towards HTML over C#. However, C# syntax...
I’m a big fan of static site renderers, and they are still one of the missing elements that would make ASP.NET Core more compelling for users across the vast ecosystem divide. In the meantime, developers must rely on tools like...
Let me start by saying that I love the combination of Htmx and ASP.NET Core, and it is a pairing that any .NET developer should consider, whether maintaining an existing application or building a new one. It’s very cool. I...
When building web experiences, there are safe operations and destructive ones. In the case of dangerous actions, it’s widespread to ask the user if they’d like to continue with the action before ultimately executing it.
I’ve recently been reading up on .NET Aspire and have found a lot of cool .NET tech underpinning the offering. One of the tools that has gotten a glow-up since I last looked at it has been Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.HealthChecks package provides...
In my last blog post, I discussed range inputs. This time, we’ll examine a tag helper that adds support for the HTML element of datalist.
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...
