Front-End Development and stuff …

Michael Kühnel, Front-End Developer from Kassel, Germany – blogging about markup, CSS, JavaScript, tooling and related stuff. Sometimes in English and sometimes in German.

• November 5, 2025

  Stencil and Storybook – How to generate argTypes from JSDoc comments

  When using Stencil with Storybook, you'll quickly notice that Controls don't work out of the box. This guide shows you how to automatically generate proper argTypes from your JSDoc comments using the Custom Elements Manifest.

• July 16, 2019

  How to flash ESP8266 (and ESP32) to use Espruino firmware on macOS

  Espruino is a firmware with an integrated JavaScript interpreter for microcontrollers coming with it’s own IDE. So it’s possible to run JavaScript natively on the most affordable microcontrollers like the ESP8266. This Guide helps you to set things up to explore the possibilities of the Internet of Things using the language of the web.

• March 22, 2018

  Helpers and tips for npm run scripts

  The purpose of this blog post is not to introduce using npm as a build tool. There are lots of good articles about the »where« and »why«. I would like to present some hidden gems to potentially improve your setup instead.

• November 14, 2017

  JSConf Budapest 2017 – A personal recap

  It was my first time attending JSConf Budapest. In this recap I’ll summarize and highlight a few talks and try to convey the overall experience. TL;DR: It was a blast. Thanks to everyone involved

• June 12, 2017

  Quick Tip: Using Lodash per method packages with Angular (2 and above)

  I didn’t get how to import per method packages and how to include the types in my project. It’s not that hard but I had to invest some time to get this straight. Hope this little tip can save you half an hour.