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Michelle Barker

Michelle is a Senior Front End Developer at Ada Mode, with an interest in tech for good and creative coding. She is author of front-end blog CSS { In Real Life }, as well as a writer for Smashing Magazine, MDN, web.dev, Codrops and CSS-Tricks.

Michelle is a regular speaker on CSS topics and digital sustainability. She has a background in illustration, and enjoys tinkering with code in creative demos and side projects, as well as helping others to fall in love with CSS.🌍

Latest articles by Michelle Barker

  1. What I learned from migrating a Vue project from Vuex to Pinia

    Big refactors and migrations for key infrastructure like global state are not to be taken lightly. Michelle Barker is here to show us how she did exactly that — migrating from Vuex to Pinia for global state in a huge, single page app — using a pragmatic, considered approach.

  2. Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way

    Modern CSS makes styling HTML tables in a considered, responsive nature a breeze. Michelle Barker breaks it all down for you in this deep dive.