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Ankush
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I write about, around, and for the developer ecosystem. Recommendations, tutorials, technical discussions — whatever I publish, I try my best to cut through confusion and fluff, and provide actionable answers based on personal experience as a full-stack developer.
I once heard a front-end developer joke, “The NASA has landed robots on Mars, and here we’re still struggling to center-align our divs!” And it makes me feel bad that this joke has a lot of truth in it. Doing something that sounds as easy and common-sense-driven as centering a box within a box is incredibly difficult to work out in CSS. Unless you’ve encountered it before. And saved the code snippet somewhere. And even if you manage to pull it off, there’s always the lurking fear that it might just break horribly on some stupid browser somewhere! CSS ties for the first spot of “necessary web evils” along with JavaScript. It’s a standard that evolved haphazardly, was interpreted differently by different browser manufacturers, and is now so full of contradictions that nobody dares call themselves a “CSS expert”.
It appears daunting, but adding a powerful search function to your application is neither complex nor time-consuming. Here are some solid recommendations!