The Simplest Ways to Handle HTML Includes | CSS-Tricks
Chris looks at all the different ways of working around the fact that HTML doesn’t do transclusion. Those ways include (hah!) Scott’s super clever technique and Trys’s little Sergey.
Link tags: includes
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HTML Includes That Work Today | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA
Scott writes up that super smart transclusion trick of his.
Inline an SVG file in HTML, declaratively & asynchronously!
Woah! This is one smart hack!
Scott has figured out a way to get all the benefits of pointing to an external SVG file …that then gets embedded. This means you can get all the styling and scripting benefits that only apply to embedded SVGs (like using fill).
The fallback is very graceful indeed: you still get the SVG (just not embedded).
Now imagine using this technique for chunks of HTML too …transclusion, baby!
Sergey | the little SSG
Trys has made YASSG—Yet Another Static Site Generator. It’s called Sergey (like SSG, see?) and it does just one thing: it allows you to include chunks of markup. It’s Apache Server Side Includes all over again!
Kick the tyres and see what you think.
What is tree shaking and how does it work?
The context here is JavaScript, not apples or olives.
This is yet another great explainer from Ire. Tree shaking is one of those things that I thought I understood, but always had the nagging doubt that I was missing something. This article really helped clear things up for me.
Jekyll Includes are Cool - daverupert.com
Dave explains how Jekyll Includes are starting to convert him to web components. The encapsulation is nice and neat. And he answers the inevitable “but why not use React?” question:
Writing HTML that contains JavaScript, not JavaScript that contains HTML, feels good to me.
The key feature for me is that this approach doesn’t have to depend on JavaScript in the browser:
I like that Web Components are an entirely client-side technology but can be rendered server-side in existing tech stacks whether it’s Jekyll, Rails, or even some Enterprise Java system.