The Mux Blog

Published on January 20, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

The building blocks of great docs

By Darius Cepulis • 15 min read • Engineering

Great documentation is the backbone of a great API company. How do you scale it and keep a good experience? Learn about information architecture, Next.js 13, React Server Components, and Tailwind.

Published on January 6, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Winamp player: now with web components

By Dave and Wietse • 11 min read • Engineering

In this post, we break down how you can rebuild the classic Winamp player using modern web components with media-chrome.

Published on December 5, 2022 (over 1 year ago)

If you can read this, your browser captions are broken

By Gary Katsevman • 12 min read • Engineering

I’ve seen a lot of captions over the years, and there’s one thing I can tell you with certainty: The way that custom controls and the HTML video element interact right now is inadequate, and I think th...

Published on December 1, 2022 (over 1 year ago)

Developing real-time video without all the meetings

By Bobby Peck • 6 min read • Engineering

In this post, you'll discover ways that you can simulate a video call with many participants–without having to invite many participants at all!

Published on November 4, 2022 (over 1 year ago)

Finding your way in the Jamstack forest

By Dave Kiss • 3 min read • Engineering

At the risk of sounding like an old man, I can barely keep up with the JavaScript landscape. Between server components, islands architecture, incremental static regeneration, code optimization, and the...

Published on November 1, 2022 (over 1 year ago)

How we made Mux Player’s loading feel great

By Darius Cepulis • 6 min read • Engineering

With lazy-loading and a blurhash placeholder, we make the loading experience of Mux Player feel great in our Next.js app

Published on October 25, 2022 (over 1 year ago)

Using Mux Player to Add Videos to my Next.js Blog

By Liam Lindner • 4 min read • Engineering

In this post, I'll show you the simple steps to embed a video in your Next.js blog or website by using the newest player package from Mux.

Published on October 19, 2022 (over 1 year ago)

Slow is stable, stable is fast: building Mux Player on the “slow” platform of web components

By Dylan Jhaveri • 13 min read • Engineering

There have been a lot of hot takes and chatter flying around the interwebs about web components over the last few months. We read a lot of it, but the day-to-day 280-character hot takes on Twitter are ...

Published on July 27, 2022 (almost 2 years ago)

HTML, the Hero of the Web

By Wesley Luyten • 6 min read • Engineering

Here at Mux, we want to empower our users to make the most of our platform. Using web components to build out our Mux elements collection seemed like the most developer-friendly way to do that.

Published on July 13, 2022 (almost 2 years ago)

@mux-elements are getting a new (old) home on npm: @mux!

By Christian Pillsbury • 8 min read • Engineering

All of our Mux Elements are moving from @mux-elements to @mux on npm. In this post, we explain why and introduce some steps we took and tools we built to help with your migration.