News and Tools for Frontend Development (11)
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- Becoming a Frontend Developer in 100 Days: A Step-by-Step Guide · · guides, career, learning
- Choosing Humanity over Automation · · ai, design, automation
- What’s New in CSS? · · slides, css
- Mastering Yarn’s Lifecycle With Hooks · · yarn, hooks
- Boost Your JavaScript With JSDoc Typing · · javascript, typescript, documentation
- Understanding Apache Web Server Configuration · · servers, apache, configuration
- Chasing Rainbows · · accessibility, user-experience
- DevTools: A Clever Overview of All Your CSS Code · · user-agents, dev-tools, auditing, css, google, chrome
- It’s Time to Learn OKLCH Color · · colors, oklch, css
- The Pattern to Make Your Frontend Tests 10× Better · · testing
- Stream File Uploads to S3 Object Storage and Save Money · · aws, streaming, storage, economics
- Programming-Language Popularity by GitHub Pull Requests · · studies, research, programming, comparisons, github, javascript, typescript
- Frontend Developer Tries Tailwind for the First Time · · videos, tailwind, css
- Establishing Metrics for Accessibility ROI · · accessibility, metrics, economics
- Unlocking the Power of Design Tokens to Create Dark Mode UI · · design-tokens, dark-mode
- 3 Methods for Scoped Styles in Web Components That Work Everywhere · · web-components, css, scope, dom, shadow-dom, support
- 10 CSS Animation Tips and Tricks · · videos, css, animations, tips-and-tricks
- Foundations: Accessible Names and Descriptions · · accessibility, naming, writing, aria
- Can You Create Beautiful Stroked Text in CSS? · · css, effects
- Designing for Reduced Motion · · accessibility, animations
- Observing CSS · · css, javascript, monitoring
- What’s New in WCAG 2.2? · · accessibility, wcag, standards
- Choosing a Name for Your Design System · · design-systems, naming
- The Alt Text War—SEO vs. Accessibility · · accessibility, seo, writing, alt-text, comparisons
- 7 Tips for Getting Started With Vue.js · · videos, vuejs, tips-and-tricks
- Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 167 · · release-notes, user-agents, apple, safari
- 4 GitHub Alternatives for Code Repositories · · git, link-lists
- Code Explanation Using GitHub Copilot · · github, ai, learning
- What Is Semantic HTML? · · html, semantics
- New in Chrome 112 · · release-notes, user-agents, google, chrome
- What Makes a Good Screenshot? · · accessibility, images
- Testing Localhost on Multiple Devices · · testing, servers
- The Revenge of the Pop-Up · · user-experience, anti-patterns, pop-ups
- Accessibility for Designers: Where Do I Start? · · accessibility, design, link-lists
- Exposing Field Errors · · accessibility, forms, aria, assistive-tech, support
- How WebAssembly Is Accelerating New Web Functionality · · webassembly, functionality
- Safari Releases Are Development Hell · · user-agents, apple, safari, support
- What Is a Design System and Why Should You Use One? · · design-systems
- Copy to Clipboard In JavaScript and React · · javascript, react
- Five Pieces of Advice for More Accessible Websites · · accessibility, html
- So, How Can We Measure UX? · · user-experience, metrics
- A Small JavaScript Pattern I Enjoy Using · · javascript
- A Color Wheel With Gradient · · css, colors, gradients, effects, tips-and-tricks
- Quick Tip: Pull Data from an API into a Figma Layer · · tips-and-tricks, apis, figma, design
- Slow Start and Congestion Control (Browser Networking) · · performance, protocols, tcp
- Modern HTML Email (Tables No Longer Required) · · html, email, tables
- Sticky Page Header Shadow on Scroll · · css, scrolling, shadows
- When I Get That Low Contrast Feeling, I Need Non-Textual Healing · · accessibility, contrast, colors
- Why Do They Ignore My Awesome Design Documentation? · · design, documentation
- The Future of Senior Developers in an AI-Driven World · · career, ai, code-completion
- 10 Ways to Hide Elements in CSS · · css, accessibility, performance
- 7 Tricks to Take the Performance of Your Website to the Moon · · performance, minification, tree-shaking, tips-and-tricks
- We Need Accessibility Action · · accessibility, web
- The Ultimate Guide to Automatic Accessibility Testing in CI/CD for React Apps · · guides, accessibility, testing, automation, ci-cd, react
- Folder Structure for Modern Web Applications · · architecture, web-apps
- DevTools: Getting Data from DevTools into Your Code Editor · · dev-tools, user-agents
- New to the Web Platform in March · · release-notes, web-platform, user-agents, google, chrome, mozilla, firefox, apple, safari
- Modern Web Development: Centering Divs in New Exciting Wrong Ways With AI · · videos, ai
- The Pros and Cons of Different UI Automation Test Tools—Playwright · · automation, testing, playwright
- A CSS Selector to Highlight Clickable Elements · · css, selectors
- Alternative Text in the Wild: 5 Alternative Text Examples · · accessibility, writing, examples
- Checkered Background Using Two Lines of Code in CSS · · backgrounds, css
- CSS Masking · · css, masking
- From Burnout to Balance: Why Are So Many UX Designers Fatigued? · · career, productivity, user-experience, design
- One in Two New npm Packages Is SEO Spam Right Now · · npm, seo
- What Are Source Maps? · · videos, debugging
- Why I Quit Being a Tech “Influencer” · · career
- Why JavaScript Is a Prototype-Based OOP · · javascript, programming
- XUL Layout Is Gone · · history, xul, user-agents, mozilla, firefox
- Using PHP Arrays: A Guide for Beginners · · guides, php, arrays
- Framework Popularity on Netlify · · frameworks, react, nextjs, gatsby, comparisons
- 6 Steps to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Your Website · · sustainability
- Usability Heuristics in Game Design · · usability, heuristics, design
- HTML: Help Users to Download Files With the HTML “download” Attribute · · html
- How to Use Google Fonts and “font-display” · · how-tos, google, fonts, css
- Flutter Performance Optimization Techniques and Best Practices · · flutter, performance, optimization, best-practices
- The WebAIM Million · · studies, research, accessibility, metrics
- 10 AI Tools for Content Writing · · tooling, link-lists, content, writing, ai
- JavaScript Import Maps Are Now Supported Cross-Browser · · javascript, user-agents, support
- Guardrails for Better Accessibility Support in Frontend · · accessibility, quality, tooling
- Accessibility vs. Emojis · · accessibility, emoji, unicode, comparisons
- How to Review and Refactor Code With GPT-4 (and ChatGPT) · · how-tos, code-reviews, refactoring, ai, optimization
- How to Split an Angular App into Micro-Frontend Apps · · how-tos, angular, micro-frontends, web-apps
- In Praise of Vite · · vite
- Improving CSS Shapes With Trigonometric Functions · · css, functions
- TypeScript Function Types: A Beginner’s Guide · · guides, typescript, functions
- Connecting Dots of an Accessibility Audit · · accessibility, auditing
- File Uploads for the Web: File Uploads in Node and Nuxt · · file-handling, nodejs, nuxt
- A Quick Guide to Reviewing a VPAT ACR · · accessibility, conformance, auditing
- CSS Creator Håkon Wium Lie Interview · · interviews, css
- Defaulting on Single Page Applications (SPA) · · spas, javascript, performance
- Fighting Inter-Component HTML Bloat · · components, html, semantics, quality
- Mastering the JavaScript “switch” Statement · · javascript
- Getting Started With HTML Tables · · html, tables, introductions
- AI-Enhanced Development Makes Me More Ambitious With My Projects · · ai, code-completion, productivity
- Function Overloading in TypeScript · · typescript, functions
- UX Principles for AI Products · · user-experience, principles, ai
- Using TypeScript Without Compilation · · typescript
- UX Basics: Study Guide · · guides, fundamentals, user-experience, training, link-lists
- CSS-Only Widgets Are Inaccessible · · accessibility, css
- Harnessing GPT-4 for Writing Assistance and Content Creation · · writing, content, social-media, ai
- Brief Introduction to Edge Computing · · introductions, edge-computing
- CSS “overflow” Property · · css
- The IL1 Typography Test · · videos, typography, legibility, user-experience, testing
- The “search” Element · · html, accessibility, semantics
- Usability 101 · · videos, usability
- WYSIWYGPT · · ai, career
- The State of JS Frameworks · · podcasts, javascript, frameworks, libraries
- The Causes of Unreliable Software · · complexity, maintainability
- The Landscape of npm Packages for CLI Apps · · nodejs, npm, dependencies, command-line
- What Is Strict Mode in React? · · react
- DevTools: Convert Network Requests to Code, or Even to a Terminal Command · · dev-tools, user-agents, network, command-line
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Video Storage APIs · · multimedia, storage, apis
- The Ultimate Guide to Image Optimisation · · guides, images, performance, compression, optimization
- What We’ve Learned About Designing for Accessibility from Our Users · · accessibility, design
- Accessible but Never Boring: Rebranding the Wise Design System for Everyone II · · accessibility, design, design-systems
- The Machines Won’t Save Your Design System · · design-systems, ai
- A Complete Visual Guide to Understanding the Node.js Event Loop · · guides, nodejs, events
- Circular Text With CSS? · · css
- 5 Lesser-Known Spacing Tips for Product Designers · · design, spacing
- Some Cross-Browser DevTools Features You Might Not Know · · dev-tools, user-agents, google, chrome, mozilla, firefox, apple, safari
- Certifications Should Be Hard · · accessibility, training, learning
- Automatic npm Publishing With GitHub Actions and npm Granular Tokens · · npm, github, automation
- Annotating Designs for Accessibility · · videos, accessibility, design
- That Time When SVG Almost Got Network Support for Raw Sockets · · svg, network, history
- The Carbon Cost of Social Media · · sustainability, social-media
- What’s New in Eleventy 2: A Great SSG Just Got Better · · eleventy
- State of Node.js 2023 · · videos, nodejs
- With or Without the JS Framework · · javascript, frameworks, career
- Visually Hidden Content Is a Hack That Needs to Be Resolved, Not Enshrined · · accessibility, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, css
- How to Start a React Project in 2023 · · how-tos, react
- File Uploads for the Web: Upload Files With JavaScript · · file-handling, javascript
- When Is “:focus-visible” Visible? · · accessibility, css, selectors
- 7 Ways Web Developers and UX Designers Can Collaborate · · collaboration, processes
- The End of Front-End Development · · visions, career, html
- The Intersection of Data Visualization and UX Design · · information-design, user-experience, design
- What Is Git Merge and How to Use It? · · git
- Why We Added package.json Support to Deno · · deno, support, nodejs, npm
- Preventing Too-Short Final Lines of Text Blocks · · css, typography
- The Age of Average · · design
- Regression Testing in the Agile Universe · · agile, processes, testing, regressions
- Rich Harris Talks SvelteKit and What’s Next for Svelte · · interviews, svelte, sveltekit
- The Cost of Craft · · craft, quality, complexity, processes
- CSS Is Dead! · · css
- 5 Ways to Modernize Your Web Application · · web-apps, modernization, routing, micro-frontends, microservices, responsive-design, serverless, scaling
- The 5 Best Status Page Tools · · tooling, monitoring, alerting, link-lists
- Using “forRoot()” and “forChild()” in Angular · · angular
- Laying Out a Print Book With CSS · · print, css
- Deep Dive into How Web Browsers Work (with Illustrations) · · user-agents, rendering
- Speeding Up the JavaScript Ecosystem—npm Scripts · · javascript, performance, bundling, npm
- Introduction to Flutter: Getting Started With Cross-Platform Development · · introductions, flutter
- Design System Guide · · guides, design-systems, link-lists
- Unexpected Moments of JavaScript That Will Challenge Your Understanding of the Language · · javascript
- How to Stop a React Component from Rendering · · how-tos, react, components, client-side-rendering
- DevTools: Tricks for Copying the Styling from Any Website · · dev-tools, css, user-agents, google, chrome
- Foundations: Pointer Gestures · · accessibility, usability
- Retro-Specifying Fetch/Performance · · standards, apis, data-fetching
- Hijacking Screenreaders With CSS · · videos, accessibility, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, css
- How Screen Readers Read Special Characters: An Update · · accessibility, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, support, unicode
- Everything You Need to Know About the Updated React Docs · · react, documentation
- How to Use “v-model” With Form Inputs in Vue · · how-tos, vuejs, forms
- The Problem With React · · react
- 5 Tips for New Prototypers · · videos, prototyping, tips-and-tricks
- Cryptographically Protecting Your SPA · · spas, security, cryptography
- Accessibility Beyond Code Compliance · · accessibility, compliance
- It’s About Time CAPTCHAs Become Accessible · · accessibility, captcha
- Accessibility and Design Systems: The Deep-Dive Q&A · · interviews, accessibility, design-systems
- Versioning Design Tokens · · design-tokens, versioning, maintainability
- DevTools: Faster Searching in DevTools With CSS Selectors · · dev-tools, css, selectors, user-agents, google, chrome
- Internationalization in Next.js 13 With React Server Components · · internationalization, nextjs, react, components
- Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market With Dagster, dbt, and BigQuery · · github, open-source, community
- Scraping Single-Page Applications With Playwright · · scraping, spas, playwright
- JavaScript Polyfills · · javascript, polyfills
- The Ultimate Guide to Micro-Content · · guides, content, microcontent
- Future CSS: Anchor Positioning · · css, experiments
- Git Fundamentals, a Complete Guide · · guides, git, fundamentals
- JavaScript for Beginners: Data Structures · · javascript, arrays, objects
- The H1 Conundrum: Understanding the Challenges of Heading Level One · · accessibility, semantics, headings, html
- 6 CSS Snippets Every Front-End Developer Should Know in 2023 · · css
- Cool Frontend Arts of Local-First: Storage, Sync, Conflicts · · offline, storage, web-apps
- Circling Back on Design and Everything Else · · design
- Fix Color Contrast—Web Accessibility for Text and UI Design · · accessibility, colors, contrast
- JavaScript: Automatically Remove an Event Listener After It Has Executed · · javascript, events
- Modern Font Stacks · · websites, fonts, typography
- What Leonardo Da Vinci Can Teach Us About Web Design · · design, layout
- How Design Is Governance · · design
- Progressively Enhancing a Table With a Web Component · · html, javascript, tables, web-components, progressive-enhancement
- Advice from a Software Engineer With 8 Years of Experience · · career
- Accepting Design · · design
- TCP Echo Server for Node.js · · servers, nodejs, tcp
- Useful Tips and Tricks for Laravel · · tips-and-tricks, laravel
- Best Practices for Structuring Accessibility Testing · · accessibility, testing, best-practices
- Why Aren’t Logical Properties Taking Over Everything? · · css, logical-properties, internationalization
- Making Calendars With Accessibility and Internationalization in Mind · · functionality, accessibility, internationalization
- The Ternary Operator in JavaScript · · javascript, operators
- What Is the Cost of Designing a Mobile App? · · economics, mobile
- Introduction to Offline First Web Applications · · videos, offline, web-apps
- 8 Tips for Making Your Custom Web Designs Mobile Friendly · · design, mobile, tips-and-tricks
- Create and Download Text Files Using JavaScript · · javascript
- UX Strategy: Study Guide · · guides, user-experience, strategies, training, link-lists
- We Don’t Need “.visually-hidden” · · accessibility, css, semantics, quality
- “content” Is Your Content? · · css, content, seo, accessibility, maintainability
- “Design First, Then Build”: Let’s Bury This Myth Forevermore · · design, processes
- From UX to Growth Design: 5 Principles to Multiply Your Value · · user-experience, design, principles
- View Transitions API: Creating Smooth Page Transitions · · transitions, apis
- Handling CSS Color Fonts With “font-palette” · · css, colors, fonts
- The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a 10× Dev · · guides, productivity, career
- All JavaScript and TypeScript Features from the Last 3 Years · · javascript, typescript, history
- TypeScript’s Migration to Modules · · typescript, modules, migration
- Building Complex Forms in Vue · · forms, vuejs
- Evolving Custom Sliders · · javascript, css
- One Problem That Is Now Solved by CSS Subgrid · · css, layout
- SPA View Transitions Land in Chrome 111 · · apis, transitions, release-notes, user-agents, google, chrome
- Vue vs. React: Everything You Need to Know · · vuejs, react, comparisons
- Web Cookies With a Taste of Privacy · · cookies, privacy, user-experience
- Selecting Previous Siblings With CSS “:has()” · · css, selectors
- Craft vs. Industry: Separating Concerns · · quality, economics, maintainability, craft, comparisons
- File Uploads for the Web: Uploading Files With HTML · · file-handling, html
- Cover All the Codebases: A Guide to Code Coverage Tools · · guides, code-coverage, testing, tooling, link-lists
- I No Longer Understand “prefers-contrast” · · css, media-queries
- My Ideal Accessible Components Resource Is Holistic, Well Tested and Easy to Use · · accessibility, components
- Static Site Generators: What’s Trending Right Now · · static-site-generators, trends, react, gatsby, nuxt, astro, eleventy, comparisons
- ChatGPT and Me (a Recruiter) · · ai, career, interviewing
- How to Fix: Child Stylesheet Loading Twice (WordPress) · · how-tos, wordpress, php
- Creating a Clock With the New CSS “sin()” and “cos()” Trigonometry Functions · · css, functions
- CSS Nesting · · css, nesting
- Tackling Design Debt in Product · · podcasts, design-debt, product-management
- Change Favicon on Switching Browser Tabs in JavaScript · · images, favicons, javascript
- An End to Typographic Widows on the Web · · typography, css
- As a User, I Don’t Want To · · product-management, agile, user-experience
- Zebra Stripe Lines of Text Even When They Wrap · · css
- 2023 Web Framework Performance Report · · frameworks, performance, astro, sveltekit, gatsby, remix, wordpress, nextjs, nuxt, comparisons
- Quick Tip: How to Cache Data in PHP · · how-tos, php, caching, tips-and-tricks
- What Value Does Developer Relations Bring to Other Teams? · · developer-relations, processes
- A Tab Interface Before Its Time · · html, components
- Managing Fonts in WordPress Block Themes · · fonts, wordpress
- The AI Future of Frontend Development · · ai, career
- HTML Garden · · websites, html, art
- ARIA Live Regions for JavaScript Frameworks · · accessibility, aria, live-regions, javascript, frameworks
- Best Practices for Future-Proofing Your Flutter Apps in 2023 and Beyond · · flutter, best-practices
- The Anatomy of a Good Design: An Analysis of 4 Sites · · design
- Balanced Text Wrapping Is Coming to CSS · · css, typography
- 10 Helpful JavaScript Utility Functions · · javascript, functions
- 50.1% Empty Links · · accessibility, html, links, semantics, seo
- Continuous Growth Is Cancer · · economics, career
- The Cost of Architectural Complexity · · architecture, complexity, economics
- Optimising Large Contentful Paint · · videos, performance, web-vitals, optimization
- AI-Generated Git Commit Messages · · ai, git, automation
- Making the Case for Signals in JavaScript · · javascript, signals
- The Art of Unlearning · · learning, design