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Luka Smolčić
Frontend Developer
7 articles
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Reasons to build and maintain your own UI libraries
Luka will try to make a case for building your own components instead of relying on popular open-source libraries.
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Transforming the Sylius Admin experience with Sylify
Introducing the new and improved admin bundle that is restyled with Bootstrap instead of SemanticUI and designed to deliver a superior user experience and enhanced accessibility to Sylius admin panel.
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The shape of a design system
For a design system to really work, designers and devs need to collaborate in making design decisions, patterns and other elements defined and documented.
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I was wrong about utility-first CSS and here is why!
All of the tooling and the best practices in a field always rely on some basic underlying assumptions, and if those basic assumptions are challenged, everything built on top of them can crumble very fast.
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User Interface as a function of data
Try to see past the obvious and notice the underlying data in your app or a small piece of user interface.
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Modern WordPress boilerplate setup
Take a look at a custom component based starter-theme for developing WordPress based websites.
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Thinking in components
Examining the various benefits of working with component based architecture on the frontend