PostCSS Plugins in Vite & Ionic

Let’s install PostCSS Nesting (or any PostCSS Plugin) in our Vite based Ionic project! PostCSS Nesting over Native Nesting Native CSS Nesting is nearly here, but it’s going to be a little while yet before every user is able to render it, especially if you’re building an ionic app that targets “older” devices. So it’s probably wiser to continue using third party solutions for the forseeable future. I’ve always been a SASS user up until now, but the advantage of using PostCSS Nesting is that it uses the W3C CSS Nesting spec, so that when the time comes to target only devices that can handle CSS Nesting the switch should be as simple as uninstalling the plugins and deleting the config file....

August 3, 2023 · 2 min

CORS for Ionic 5 Apps

This guide is only for the GET method, but should get you on the right road for any method Why you need CORS for Ionic Capacitor apps When it came time to do my frame data JSON file fetching in Ionic 5 I was met with a sad realisation. I wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the fact that Cordova apps use a loophole in CORS to allow fetching from any source at all....

March 4, 2021 · 3 min