4 posts tagged with "react"

Building great UI elements are hard, and after working in the front end space for so long, I've come to appreciate component libraries that let you get up and running at lightning speed.

So of course, I have come to realise and appreciate how steadfast and solid the Material UI library is. Granted, not everyone likes the design of Material UI out of the box, but the ability to not have to integrate and merge stylesheets from disparate tools is quite freeing.

In any case, lets get back to the meat of today's discussion, adding Material UI to a browser extension.

Generating pages dynamically instead of relying on a 1-1 relationship of files to web pages seems to be an often overlooked aspect of static site generators, and Docusaurus is no exception. However, with some prowess and tinkering with the plugin system, we can definitely make the "impossible" possible, and generate pages from whatever data source we want.

Interested? Read on...

Everyone loves a well executed dark mode, me included. I think that having a full blast of white light in the middle of the night should be considered as bad as a slap in the face — you're most definitely awake after getting it.

I really enjoy developing with Ant Design. Yes, I know that it is a rather enterprise-y component library to work with when developing UIs in React, but I think that it has one of the fastest time-to-value as compared to any other component library, due to the sheer.

In this blog post, I will give you a quick walkthrough of how to combine the two tools together, and also give some opinionated tips on working with them.