What are Data Attributes and Why Should I Use Them? Data attributes are a truly magical thing that will, at some point, get you out of some prickly situations as a front end developer. They are essentially a way of storing data on an html element so that when a JS event gets fired your…
[sm-youtube-subscribe] Why Create an LWC that can Generate Word Documents? This is a little more self explanatory than many of the blog posts I do, but let’s go over some things. You typically wanna create this because the business has a need (for one reason or another) to generate a word doc. I’ve had businesses…
Why setup the Local Development Server? After you use it a couple times I promise you won’t ever ask this question again, lol. It makes your LWC development SO MUCH FASTER!!! I mean it might actually be Lightning Fast! (I’m sorry, but I’m not letting that joke go…). If you’ve ever developed LWC’s directly in…
Why create Utility Modules for Lightning Web Components? If you’re asking this question, I have feeling you don’t often utilize utility modules (or utility classes) anywhere… so let me be the first to welcome you to this absolutely magical world of utilities. They will make your life easier, code updates simpler and your code base…
Why would you want to setup Auto Code Formatting? Aside from the fact that it’s both magical and amazing, it also enables you to easily do a couple things: 1) If you get onboarded to a project with a horrific looking codebase with nightmarish formatting, you can fix that by running a single command on…