Rendering Contentful Rich Code Snippets in Gatsby
Gatsby + Contentful is a powerful and formidable combination. However, the inability to render code blocks is a real issue with a not-straightforward solution..
Using External Gatsby Stylesheets Rather than Inline
By default Gatsby will generate one - potentially huge - inline stylesheet in the head of your document. It is also possible to load this externally instead.
Disabling Source Maps in Gatsby for Production
Although an extremely useful aspect of Gatsby, source maps cause a performance hit as well as leaving your source exposed. Here is how to turn them off!
Optimising gatsby-image Even Further
gatsby-image delivers highly-optimised images using some very clever, advanced loading techniques. There are a few tricks to speed it up yet further though...
Intercepting Clipboard Events with JavaScript
Browsers now support the 'copy' element event, which allows developers to intercept and modify content placed onto a clipboard, when copied from their site.
Adding Static Files to a GatsbyJS Site
Gatsby does an excellent job of optimising assets, but sometimes you just need a way to add specific files into the site without being processed by Webpack..
CSS Focus Styles for Keyboard Users Only
Overriding :focus outline without providing a viable alternative should never be an option. Here I discuss implementing alternatives that keep UI and UX happy.
Parent Selectors in CSS and Sass
The omission of a parent selector within CSS has been a long-standing weakness within the spec. Sass does provide a sort-of answer though.
Automatically Deploy a Static Gatsby Site via FTP
Gatsby is a static website generator, the output from which you can host more-or-less wherever you wish. You can add FTP to your CI pipeline to automate this.
Using JavaScript to Avoid Orphans
Orphans are annoying single-word lines of text that hang at the end of a paragraph. It is straightforward using React and JS to banish them from your site.
Using CSS to Deal with Widows
In typography, a 'widow' is the last line of a paragraph, which falls alone on the following page or column. On the web, this can be easily tackled with CSS.
Use Greater-than and Less-than Symbols in JSX
In React, it is not as straightforward as you might think to include less-than or more-than symbols within your JSX..
Reducing Image Brightness with CSS
The brightness filter is a very straightforward and easy way to edit the appearance of an image (or other HTML elements) directly via CSS.
Commenting in JSX
Although there are limited situations where you may still need to place HTML comments into the rendered output from React, it is still sometimes necessary..!
Creating a Discernible Name for Icon Links
A common issue I come across when auditing sites with Lighthouse is the "Links do not have a discernible name" error where links don't contain text.
Interpolation: Sass Variables Inside Calc()
One of the most common pitfalls for developers new to Sass is string interpolation: why isn't their var behaving as they expect when inside a calc() function?
