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EPISODE · Oct 30, 2018 · 55 MIN

A dropdown nest

from Frontend First · host EmberMap

Sam and Ryan talk about the challenges of building nested dropdowns, whether a component reading data from its children is an anti-pattern, how angle-bracket syntax encourages new components, and whether “CSS best practices” exist. Topics include: 00:40 – Thinking through a nested drop-down navigation menu 35:15 – Building an component & angle-bracket syntax 45:00 – Layout UI primitives 46:35 – What are CSS best practices? How might Tailwind encourage these? 52:17 – "Semantic" classes. Should developers have to name every UI element, if designers don't?

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Sam and Ryan talk about the challenges of building nested dropdowns, whether a component reading data from its children is an anti-pattern, how angle-bracket syntax encourages new components, and whether “CSS best practices” exist.

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