Astro Endpoints


I hope you’ve been well.

I just returned from a trip to Legoland to celebrate my daughter’s birthday and I’m in somewhat of a panic for having insufficient days to “do work” 😱😅.

(I expected I’d have fewer days to work, but wrestling with that fact can still be challenging because of the deadlines I’ve set before).

Don’t worry, I’ll figure it out.

Two articles today, as usual :)

Best Practice for Astro Endpoints

This is a quick article on Astro endpoints. Basically, don’t prerender.

Stress for Metamorphosis

I also mused a little about how humans need to undergo stress to grow, which is very much the same thing that all other animals need to do…

So, why do we reject forwarding stress?

Splendid Labz Update

To give you a quick heads up, I’ve pretty much finished up on the form components on the v1 release for Splendid Labz.

I’m now working on Drawers and I realized it’s a huge undertaking — much more than form components.

![[drawer.png]]

Part of the reason is because the Drawer component is more complex than the rest — it contains 3 individual components and I wanted to document them properly and sufficiently.

The second reason is I’m trying to be complete (and correct, as much as I can) when it comes to accessibility recommendations, so I took a little bit more time.

This is taking such a long time, I’m considering releasing v1 a little prematurely (before finishing up all the components I planned).

I’m interested to know what you would prefer:

  1. Release pre-v1 as-is.
  2. Release v1 when it’s complete.
  3. Don’t mind either way

I’m looking forward to your response on this because it would give me much-needed real-work feedback! :)

That’s it from me this week.

It’s been exhausting and not very productive (work-wise) but a productive weekend with my family.

I hope your week has gone well.

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