🎯 Simple websites are better for business
Tags: webdev, css
Published: 2023-06-23 11:08:28

Here's what we have this week:

😓 Complexity in front-end development  
🌫️ Gooey cursor effect  
🧑‍💻 @scope in CSS

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### 📚 Top Reads

[Reducing Complexity in Front End Development](https://css-irl.info/reducing-complexity-in-front-end-development/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

We tend to npm install third-party dependencies unthinkingly. But these packages often rely on other dependencies themselves.

[Negative-Space Typography](https://www.chrbutler.com/negative-space-typography?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Controlling the space between text styles is as important as differentiating the styles themselves.

[Are Simple Websites Better For Business?](https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2023/06/are-simple-websites-better-for-business/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Minimalism --- the clean, grey-on-white aesthetic popularised by (among others) Apple --- has been the dominant trend for years.

[An introduction to @scope in CSS](https://fullystacked.net/posts/scope-in-css/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

There had once been a scoped HTML attribute but it got deprecated. It's been replaced by @scope in CSS. It's due to land in Chrome 117.

[Modern CSS For Dynamic Component-Based Architecture](https://moderncss.dev/modern-css-for-dynamic-component-based-architecture/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

The language of CSS has had an explosion of new features and improvements in the last few years.

### 🛠 Resources & Tools

[Gooey Cursor Effect](https://tympanus.net/codrops/2023/06/07/gooey-cursor-effect/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

A fun gooey cursor background effect with SVG filters and CSS blend modes.

[Rebuilding a comment component with modern CSS](https://ishadeed.com/article/comment-component/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

As a part of my curious UI inspection, I thought about why not to look at popular websites and see how they implemented the comment component layout.

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