The New Frontend Toolkit: Popover API, Dialog, and Next-Gen CSS

Many developers still reach for third-party libraries to build menus, modals, and overlays - but this approach is quickly becoming outdated. With the Popover API and the Dialog element, we now have native solutions for some of the most common UI patterns. The problem? Almost no one is using them. In this talk, Eric will show how these features can be applied in real projects through live-coding examples, with the goal of inspiring you to start using them today. We’ll also explore some bleeding-edge CSS innovations and see how they combine with these new HTML capabilities to create cleaner, more elegant, and more flexible user interfaces.