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Until fairly recently, there was no way to get an entire color scale live generated based on one color using vanilla CSS.

Hot take: the killer feature of htmx which transforms it from a nice lil’ opinionated DSL for HTML-based reactivity to a powerhouse full-stack framework with which you can build ambitious, even experimental application architectures is this: Extensions.

Over the past few years I’ve said on many occasions that signals, a reactive primitive popularized by many JavaScript frameworks and libraries (and most easy to pick up using the implementation by the Preact folks), makes it much easier to add declarative binding to your HTML using basic vanilla DOM techniques + signal effects.

Ever since the momentous release of Tailwind CSS version 4 at the start of this year (January 2025), I have been telling people that the CSS Framework Wars™ are finally over. CSS won! And amazingly, so did Tailwind. Plot twist!

So I thought it would be fun to revisit the Invoker Commands API (MDN) which is available in Chromium-based browsers and hopefully coming soon to Safari and Firefox (both are currently in testing).