If you want to build vanilla JavaScript apps, JSX would be a useful tool. Vite makes it easy. It’s been possible to use JSX without React for some time, but the tooling setup was awkward. This article from 2020 shows a way to implement it yourself, but since then the…

We all make mistakes. Some simple safeguards can make a big difference. TLDR: Install git-check-stop as a development resource in your project so you never make an embarrassing build or deploy mistake again. I’m sure, like me, you have never typed npm run deploy-live when what you meant was npm…

Unless you manually hack together your mobile site out of bare HTML and show no pictures. — When I started out, I was going to write an interesting article about how you could get a website to pass the mobile Core Web Vitals assessment that Google is going to roll out as a major driver of SEO ranking in the coming months:

Scalable Vector Graphics are a unique feature of the web. — If you are a graphic designer or web developer, you already know how useful SVGs can be. They are small, easy to make, and above all they allow you to create images for web pages that look perfect at every possible size. But they can also be styled with css…

If you’re using IIS 10, you’ll need to pass those security audits. Here are some typical things that aren’t configured right out of the box, and how to fix them. — You will generally be in good shape using IIS 10 to securely host websites, but there are some changes you must make to pass a security audit. Although many potential security flaws may lurk in the applications you host (and you’ll need to attend to those for sure), the more…

It’s harder than you think. But it’s not that hard. When you first take a look at how to do this, especially if your origin is an s3 bucket as we’ll be using here, it seems like it’s going to be really simple. …

IIS is easy to use with Node, Express and Vue. Yes, you heard that right. Do you have websites that you would like to add a full or partial VueJS front-end to, but need to communicate with a .NET api? Do you have an Express server you would like to easily integrate with an existing .NET site? Or do you just want to use an…