Tag: h5bp

HTML5 Boilerplate 9.0.1 Released

Posted on by Rob Larsen

See it on GitHub!

View it on npm!

This release was kicked off because of Gulp 5. Gulp 5 has breaking changes so we had to work through the upgrade manually. In the process of doing that upgrade we discovered a couple of bugs.

  1. Christian Oliff noticed that tests were failing on Windows
  2. I noticed that the CSS header didn’t have the correct 9.0.0 version number

The failing Windows tests led me down a rabbit hole which pointed towards a two year old breaking change in glob. It was a few hours of clicking through links and then a quick fix. I also added Windows tests to PRs to make sure it won’t happen again.

And then we cut a release. Open Source, amiright?

I Didn’t Realize How Much I Rely on GitHub Codespaces Until This week

Posted on by Rob Larsen

How much do I rely on GitHub Codespaces for open source development? Super double-plus much. I can illustrate exactly how much with one short anecdote.

Gulp 5 was recently released and I created several PRs across repos in the H5BP organization to update Gulp across the board. I missed one issue with the encoding of images in the HTML5-Boilerplate repo and had to create a patch PR to address that one issue. Christian Oliff found an issue with failing tests with the PR on a Windows 11 machine.

This morning I decided to take a look at the issue. While, as I mentioned, I mostly use Codepsaces these days; I still have a local clone of HTML5 Boilerplate. So, I pulled down 44 commits and got to work.

As you do with an npm-based project, I ran `npm install` to make sure the dependencies were up to date. 

PS C:\Users\rob\code\html5-boilerplate> npm install
npm : The term 'npm' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was 
included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ npm install
+ ~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (npm:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
 
PS C:\Users\rob\code\html5-boilerplate>

Oops? Yes, oops.

What’s going on there? Node/npm is my bread-and-butter environment, right? Absolutely. So? Huh?

Here’s the deal- I have a new Surface Studio 2 that I bought in December and I, apparently, never had any need to install Node/npm on this laptop. As my GitHub profile shows I’ve actually done a fair bit of open source work this year so it’s not down to the fact that I’ve been dormant. I just have done everything in Codepsaces. They’re so convenient I never even think about working locally. It took a specific Windows 11 bug to get me working locally on this laptop.

So, yeah, Codepsaces rock.

If you’re wondering, I did fix the issue with the tests and will be releasing v9.0.1 of H5BP tomorrow or Friday.

HTML5 Boilerplate v9.0.0 Released

Posted on by Rob Larsen

That took a while! This release features a ton of changes. We removed Modernizr, Normalize.css, Babel, Internat Explorer support, Google Analytics and the server configs. We also swapped out Parcel for Webpack.

Here’s the full Changelog:

  • Removing tile images #3023
  • Add Prettier #3011
  • Remove Modernizr #3002
  • Drop Normalize.css #2960
  • Create WebPack build to ship with the project #2650
  • Sets package to private by default #2888
  • Removes Babel and upgrades our gulpfile to use ES Modules #2831
  • Farewell Internet Explorer! #2773
  • Remove apache-server-configs/.htaccess #2779
  • Moving docs out of src and dist #2655
  • Replace Parcel with Webpack #2641
  • Add SVG Favicon #2554
  • Remove Google Analytics #2547
  • Rename master branch to main #2583
  • Remove humans.txt #2584
  • Add a template repository #2391
  • Remove plugins js #2346
  • Rename CSS file #2342 and JS file #2341

Want to Contribute to a 57,000+ Star GitHub Repo? You Can Help Translate Front End Developer Interview Questions

Posted on by Rob Larsen

Are you interested in getting some open source experience? Maybe it’s a goal for you at your job this year or maybe you just want to give back to the community. Whatever your reason, the Front End Developer Interview Questions repo is looking for help updating the translation of the interview questions into 33 different languages.

I’ve created 33 separate issues for each of our supported languages. Some of those languages are extremely out of date. Others have been updated regularly. Whatever the state, I’d like to get them all in sync with the current list of questions and then figure out a method for keeping them updated going forward.

If you’re a native speaker or are fluent in any of the languages we support please consider helping out. The only technical skills you need are markdown editing, although you will need to be aware of technical terms in order to properly translate the text.

Thanks in advance.

Will HTML5 Boilperplate Remove Normalize.css?

Posted on by Rob Larsen

I know what you’re thinking… Am I back to writing? Coding open source software? Hopefully. I’m about to drop H%BP 9.0.0, so there’s that at least.

Anyway, we’re talking about removing normalize.css from the project in this issue:

Drop Normalize.css · Issue #2939 · h5bp/html5-boilerplate

I am leaning towards removing it with no replacement, but I could be convinced to include a different reset if one is more actively maintained and geared toward the modern browser landscape. If you have thoughts, please share them on the issue.