Here's my blog https://theosoti.com/ where I share mainly about CSS. They are a mix of long articles and some short ones to talk about stuff I'm currently learning.
Thanks for sharing that! It’s a super common story. Frontend patterns moved fast (especially for the last 3 years), and not always in a way that encouraged checking what the browser itself could already do.
If you want to improve a bit and discover more what CSS and HTML can do today, I also try to post daily on my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theosoti/
Yup, at this point it feels more like habit than necessity. People learned to build things like dropdowns in JavaScript years ago, so they keep doing it that way.
A lot of devs simply don’t look any further when it comes to what HTML and CSS already provide.
The interesting part here isn’t “no JavaScript”, it’s that HTML already covers more use cases than people remember (forms, dialogs, validation, navigation).
I ran into this repeatedly while writing my book "You Don’t Need JavaScript"[0]: most JS in these cases isn’t adding capability, it’s compensating for forgotten platform features.
I wrote a book about modern HTML & CSS to create website with as little javascript as possible.
I made almost 5k$ the first month, now I do 300-500$/month with it.
Here’s the link: https://theosoti.com/you-dont-need-js/
Over the past few months, I’ve been exploring how far modern CSS can go on its own. The result is an ebook called "You Don’t Need JavaScript".
It’s a collection of UI components (animations, modals, dark mode, etc.) built entirely with CSS, along with explanations of the techniques and philosophy behind them.
The main idea: use the simplest tool that gets the job done, without sacrificing accessibility or creativity.
I’d love feedback, whether on the concept, the techniques, or even the way it’s presented.