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Slightly enhanced sticky revealing footer
June 17, 2025 Andy Bell showed a nice little UI effect with his “sticky revealing footer”. However, on some pages, the experience was mediocre. A quest was started to improve it.
Reference architecture for SPA front-ends
April 28, 2024 external A reference architecture for SPA front-ends with React and Angular, focused on principles instead of rules.
I was wrong about service workers
July 28, 2023 I was wrong about service workers. I wrongly assumed certain use cases for them. But I was missing out on them.
Updating my graph layout algorithm
January 5, 2023 Updating my graph layout algorithm based on new requirements and requests from the community
Authentication token management
November 17, 2021 Complex client-side applications require sophisticated solutions around authentication management and background refreshing.
Creating an auto-layout algorithm for graphs
June 10, 2021 Trying to automatically lay out a visual graph (e.g. state machine) that is human understandable is one of the most fun challenges I have ever encountered. Let me explain how I did it.
Demystifying the component architecture
January 12, 2020 Our little UI components do more for us than we give them credits for. Their internals are more complex than we know.
How to create a scalable and maintainable front-end architecture
November 11, 2019 A modern architecture for digital enterprises build on existing ideas, but let you scale quickly