DevRel at Adobe, Star Wars nerd, Web/Serverless hacker, lover of good beer and good books. Oh, and cats.
Raymond is a senior developer evangelist for Adobe. He focuses on document services, JavaScript, and enterprise cat demos.
Back nearly a year ago (holy smokes time goes fast), one of my first articles about web components involved building a component to create a paginated/sorted table: Building Table Sorting and Pagination in a Web Component. In that example, the component looked like so in your HTML:
After my post yesterday about web component lifecycle events, I had an interesting conversation with Thomas Broyer on Mastodon. He brought up an issue with web components that I covered before on this blog, but as it was a very appropriate thing to discuss immediately after yesterday's post, I thought a bit of repetition would be ok. And heck, I'll take any chance to write more web component code as it gives me more practice.
I've been exploring web components the last few months and as part of that exploration, I've been reading "Web Components in Action" by fellow Adobian Ben Farrell. I'm still at the beginning of the book but so far it's been great. It is a few years old now, but for the most part, the only thing I've seen out of date is that at the time of publication, Microsoft Edge didn't have complete support for web components yet. That's been corrected (good thing, I switched to Edge a while back) so it's not really a concern.
For a while now my blog queue has had an item in there suggesting I take a look at adding a basic chart to an Alpine.js application. I finally got a chance to play around with this over the weekend and I thought I'd share the result. For this post, I've used Chart.js, which is a free, open-source charting library that's relatively easy enough to use. Certainly, others could be used as well and as always, if you've got an example, I'd love to see it. With that out of the way, let's take a look at the application.
Good morning readers! I'm writing this in a hotel room in Tuscaloosa where my wife and I are visiting our son. He was presented with a significant award a few nights ago (the Algernon Sydney Sullivan award) and we stayed up a few extra days. We're about to head back to Louisiana so I thought I'd share a few quick links with folks. Have a great Sunday.
Way back in the old days, in August of 2021, I wrote up an example of adding support for Adobe's PDF Embed API as an Eleventy plugin: "An Adobe PDF Embed Plugin for Eleventy". When I find time, I need to update that to the newest URL for the library, but more recently I was curious if I could recreate support using the WebC template language. While it was a bit difficult at times (and a big thank you goes to Zach for patiently helping me), I think it's at a point now where it can be shared. I will warn folks that I'm still struggling a bit with the best way to work with WebC, and at least one feature I'm showing isn't documented yet (but I've confirmed it will 100% ship), but hopefully this example will be useful for folks.
Last January, I announced the release of a guide I had written for building a simple blog in Eleventy. Now that Eleventy has hit 2.0, I took some time this morning to look at the guide and see what could be updated. The first thing I noticed was that I had a heck of a lot of typos. I fixed those. I then went through the two main versions of the blog (before and after UI was added) and updated the dependencies to the 2.0 release of Eleventy.
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