Animating Enhance Movies

Animating Enhance Movies

In this article, we’ll walk through how the animations in our Enhance Movies app are designed and built, with the hopes of giving those new to CSS animations a little inspiration.

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Cole Peters
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Introducing Enhance Movies

Introducing Enhance Movies

We are excited to present our non-trivial learning application, Enhance Movies, designed to highlight the exceptional web development experience you get from Enhance. With a strong focus on simplicity, performance, progressive enhancement, and offline local development capabilities, this application is set to transform your understanding of what can be done by focusing on the web platform.

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Simon MacDonald
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TypeScript: YAGNI

TypeScript: YAGNI

TypeScript! What is it good for? I wouldn’t go as far as to say “absolutely nothing” like the song. I’m not trying to start a war here.

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Simon MacDonald
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Air Quality App with Enhance

Air Quality App with Enhance

Use built-in Enhance features to fetch and cache air quality data from the US EPA to be displayed as HTML custom elements. All super fast!

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Taylor Beseda
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Progressively Enhancing Components: The Enhance Way

Progressively Enhancing Components: The Enhance Way

When building applications with Enhance, we start with working HTML and then look for ways to progressively enhance the user's enjoyment by using JavaScript.

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Simon MacDonald
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Building a Design Portfolio with Enhance

Building a Design Portfolio with Enhance

Cole goes on a deep dive through our new design portfolio example, and demonstrates how a little HTML and CSS can go a very long way in 2023.

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Cole Peters
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OAuth Authentication

OAuth Authentication

With more services come more passwords and usernames to keep track of. OAuth lets users authenticate to a new service using a previously established identity on another service.

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Ryan Bethel
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Authentication with Magic links

Authentication with Magic links

Authenticating with only an email or phone number can simplify the process significantly. This post demonstrates how to use these Magic links with Enhance.

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Ryan Bethel
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Tested: Database Providers on Lambda

Tested: Database Providers on Lambda

Third party database providers speed-tested on AWS Lambda. Compare performance with DynamoDB in real time with our sample application.

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Taylor Beseda
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Verify email and phone for new accounts

Verify email and phone for new accounts

Verify a phone number or email address as a method for account recovery

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Ryan Bethel
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Authentication for a Username and Password flow

Authentication for a Username and Password flow

Build a username password authentication flow for an Enhance app

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Ryan Bethel
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Mastodon Link Verification in the Enhance Blog Template

Mastodon Link Verification in the Enhance Blog Template

Profile link verification on Mastodon is very different to the now demonized blue check mark on Twitter. Since document based verification is not possible without a central authority Mastodon provides you with a way to cross reference links in your profile to prove you are the real owner of those resources.

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Simon MacDonald
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Introducing Enhance Styles 5.0

Introducing Enhance Styles 5.0

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Enhance Styles 5.0, a major upgrade to the configurable styling library included with all Enhance projects.

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Cole Peters
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Why you should roll your own auth

Why you should roll your own auth

Conventional wisdom states that rolling your own authentication system can be a significant undertaking that requires a lot of expertise in security and web development. In most cases, using a third-party authentication service is better than trying to build your own from scratch. However, there are some cases where rolling your own auth may be beneficial.

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Simon MacDonald
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Introducing Themes for the Enhance Blog Template

Introducing Themes for the Enhance Blog Template

Today, we’re shipping a small but exciting update to our Enhance blog template, in the form of a new starter theme and the ability to quickly switch between themes via a single line of code.

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Cole Peters
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Supporting Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

Supporting Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

Our next step towards making it easier for everyone to participate in the open and indie web is the release of @enhance/arc-plugin-posse. This plugin checks your RSS feed for new content and syndicates it to whatever platforms you choose. The plugin is designed to work seamlessly with the Enhance Blog Template, but you can also deploy it as a standalone plugin for existing sites.

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Simon MacDonald
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Above the Clouds With the New Enhance Landing Page

Above the Clouds With the New Enhance Landing Page

Join us for a look under the hood of our brand new landing page for Enhance — the biggest project we’ve yet thrown at our very own framework.

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Cole Peters
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Webmention Support in Enhance Blog Template

Webmention Support in Enhance Blog Template

We want to make it easier for folks to participate in the open and indie web. Our first step towards this goal was the publication of our Enhance Blog Template which enables you to publish your site and own your content. Our next step is adding support for incoming and outgoing webmentions to the blog template.

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Simon MacDonald
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Customizing the Enhance Blog Template

Customizing the Enhance Blog Template

A walkthrough of how our resident design engineer would go about re-styling the Enhance blog template — including looks at styleguide configuration, web fonts, utility classes, and scoped element styles.

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Cole Peters
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Adding Comments to the Enhance Blog Template

Adding Comments to the Enhance Blog Template

Recently, we released the Enhance Blog Template, and one thing I felt was missing was the ability to have random people on the internet disagree with me. That’s right. We’re adding a comment section.

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Simon MacDonald
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