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Polyfills, Transpiling and Monkey Patching

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

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Polyfilling the Popover API

We're polyfilling the popover API, which is a really wonderful API that allows you to have not a modal, but anything that pops over. And so we're using the popoverAPI for our select menus that pop up for sorting. I'm even using the popOver API for the mobile navigation. So it's really interesting and it works really well because it's doing so little. It's essentially adding a class, adding a click handler and then adding some CSS.

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