A guide to destructuring in JavaScript

Before we get started, I can’t stress the following enough: the choices we make at Set Studio don’t challenge your choices. You might also not agree with our choices and that’s fine, but we don’t need alternatives evangelising to us. To paraphrase Rachel Andrew: If it works, it’s right I do, however, get asked a lot about what technologies and...

It’s very rare I write for other publications than this one, but I wanted to give CSS-Tricks (especially Geoff) a nod because they’re working their way back to what they did best. This article sort of fits Piccalilli, but I think it fits CSS-Tricks better. I certainly wanted it to have mass-reach too because I’m obsessed with soft skills and how...

I started 2024 with a super in-depth Reality Check article (more of those coming this year) so I thought I’d start simple this year because I’m still a bit tired from, y’know, writing a whole CSS course 😅 What is masonry? I’m not going to presume that everyone knows what a masonry layout is, but you’ve almost certainly seen one websites like...

I’ve been excited by the potential of text-box-trim and text-edge for a while. They’re in draft status at the moment, but when more browser support is available, this capability will open up some exciting possibilities for improving typesetting in the browser, as well as giving us more control of alignment and internal spacing in our components,...

The obvious lack of diversity (and respondents versus last year 😬) applies of course, but there’s some interesting stuff in here still. The “other front-end frameworks” section specifically. Astro, Ember, Remix and jQuery have all grown in usage vs last year, but Next.js has stagnated somewhat. I guess that’s why the Vercel CEO is currently...