In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a Hero header with a fixed image as the background and an overlay gradient on top. The image will have cover the whole screen with some text and a call to action in the middle. As always, we are going to use tailwind for this! You can take a look at the final result here: See the Pen Fixed Hero Header by Crysfel (@crysfel) on CodePen. Defining the markup The first thing we are going to do is to define the markup for the header, as a rule of Continue reading

A couple of weeks ago Facebook sent me an email informing me that all profile images will not be accessible anymore unless there's a token on every request. Given that I'm no longer supporting Facebook login, but still many of my users are using their Facebook profile image, I decided to pull all those images into my own server before facebook implements the new requirements. After a few hours of googling how to download images/binaries on NodeJS, and only finding old/deprecated implementations Continue reading

A few months ago I was cleaning up an old node codebase, the endpoint was using promises to call several other API endpoints on the network, waiting for the response on all calls, and then building a JSON response to the client. While I was doing the refactor and cleaning up the code, I found some optimizations I'd like to share in this post. Improving readability In order to improve code readability and therefore lowering the maintenance cost for this service, I was introducing async/await to Continue reading

Over the last 12 years I've been building Single Web Applications (SPAs). I've seen how the CSS landscape has changed, from the introduction of SASS, BEM, Bootstrap like frameworks, css modules, style components, etc. All of them trying to bring some sanity to the CSS madness! Definately some improvements over the years, but still all of these solution fail at some point. In the summer of 2018, I learned about a new utility framework called tailwind, the approach is completely different from Continue reading

A few days ago I had to implement a sticky banner at work, at first I thought it would be a simple task but it took me quite some time to figure everything out. On the bright side, I've learned a few new things about CSS in the process. Here are the requirements: The component might be present sometimes depending on some custom logic on the backend. When present, it had to push all the content down and when closed by the user, it had to disappear with a slide up animation. Effectively animating Continue reading