Category: Coding

Axios / Vue 2 101

Axios / Vue.js 2 APIs 101

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If you have a WordPress-based website like this one, you might eventually want to try to make use of its APIs.  Using Axios and Vue.js, it is pretty easy to do.  At the time of writing this, Vue.js 3 exists but I am going to use Vue.js 2 anyways.

There are two API endpoints that we care about for the purposes of this demo:  https://blog.jws.app/wp-json/ and https://blog.jws.app/wp-json/wp/v2/posts.  The first one will get us all of the basic information from the blog (such as the title and the description).  The second API endpoint will get us a listing of blog posts.

See the Pen
Axios / Vue.js 2 APIs v1 by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring)
on CodePen.

There are two variables defined within data(): info and posts. Thanks to the way Vue works, you can reference {{info.home}}, {{info.name}}, and {{info.description}} before Axios has even finished getting the values from https://blog.jws.app/wp-json/.

Have a suggestion on how to better this example?  Feel free fork the pen and drop a link, below.

Editing SVG Images in CSS

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You might have noticed in my previous post about dark mode that there was a css rule to flip an SVG image from dark to light.

Inverting SVG Images With CSS Filter

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Inverting images in CSS by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring)
on CodePen.

There are a few other things that you can do, though. The same filter function can do blur, brightness, contrast, drop-shadow, grayscale, hue-rotate, invert, opacity, sepia and saturate. Let’s take a look at one other example.

Blurring SVG Images With CSS Filter

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Blurring images in CSS by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring)
on CodePen.

So, there are a few options available for you, out there. Have a questions? Feel free to drop a comment, below.

So, you want to enable dark mode on your website?

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Starting with macOS Mojave, Windows 10 version 1903, and Android Pie, users can set a system-wide preference for dark mode or light more within apps.  The idea is supposed to be that you set a preference once and every application on the device then respects that preference.  So, how do you get your website to respect those system preferences?

Well, starting in recent versions of (chromium versions of) Edge, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, you can use the prefers-color-scheme media query.

Since it is a media query (and uses a binary setting), you can default it in one direction or the other.

Light Mode by Default

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How to implement light mode (by default) in CSS by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring)
on CodePen.

Dark Mode by Default

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How to implement dark mode (by default) in CSS by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring)
on CodePen.

As you can see above, all you need to do is wrap a chunk of CSS in “@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme: light)” or “@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme: dark)”.

Have any questions?  Feel free to drop a comment, below.

Bulma Navigation: What the documentation is missing

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Lately, I have been playing around with Bulma.  It is a CSS framework based on Flexbox.  It is similar to Bootstrap but it does not have a javascript component to it.  One of the first things that I wanted to figure out was the responsive horizontal nav bar.  Unfortunately, the example within the official Bulma …

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