This is EXACTLY what i was looking for, even though i didn’t know it! Thank you so much for putting this out there when you did! i will pay it forward once i finish the project I’m working on by posting an article of my own and linking back to this one — thanks 🙏

Great article—thanks for sharing! The hockey references might be a bit niche for this audience, though.

It’s great to see someone putting out great content on WCs. Much appreciated (: I’ve been thinking about them myself a lot lately… so much so that i began working on a WC “framework” with a react-ish DX that uses signals for reactivity. I think we’re all getting a bit sick of the gorilla-banana-whole-freaking-jungle problem encountered when we reach for a frontend framework… especially when the platform itself supports most of the features we’re reaching for to begin with. https://github.com/toddpress/glint

“[we’ve] started conversing with the homunculus” 🤣 These days I’m just appreciative to read content that isn’t created entirely by gen ai. Thank you 🙏 good stuff mate, keep it coming.

excellent post my friend… now this is a message worth sharing! it perfectly encapsulates the experience of “tutorial hell,” a place many of us have come to know well. i can only hope readers will use this as a cheat code, bypassing all of so that they can get straight to building.

Very interesting post, Eda! Thanks for putting out there! The one question I'd have is, is it necessary to look at 2.X vs 3.0; in other words, a binary choice between the two menu options? Or can one work toward making both better?

I've been curious for some time now about generators. They seem incredibly powerful; yet I've never used them IRL. What are some real-world use cases for generators?

Great writeup! Thanks for putting this out there. I feel that there are so many of us still using divs for everything, which isn't necessarily an evil thing, itself-- but from an accessibility standpoint, I've found that 90% of the effort in making an application accessible is simply using the semantic alternatives.

Appreciate the incorporation of SOLID principles-- never seen it used in a CSS context. Great write up, keep 'em coming!

Great work! Very thoughtful intro to pseudo-elements. I haven't yet finished my first post, but I'm a soon-to-be published hashnoder, too. I'm glad you pulled the trigger :)