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News and Tools for Frontend Development (11)

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  1. CSS Grid Tooling in DevTools (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  2. Does Shadow DOM Improve Style Performance? (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  3. Practical Uses of CSS Math Functions: “calc”, “clamp”, “min”, “max” (toot or tweet) · · ,
  4. You Don’t Know “useEffect” (toot or tweet) · ·
  5. Reviewing a Design for Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  6. A Guide to Designing Accessible, WCAG-Compliant Focus Indicators (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  7. Big O, Code Efficiency Analysis (toot or tweet) · · ,
  8. Decoding AVIF: Deep Dive with Cats and imgproxy (toot or tweet) · · ,
  9. Breaking the Web Forward (toot or tweet) · · ,
  10. Accessible Design Systems: Look Good While Doing Good (toot or tweet) · · ,
  11. CSS “accent-color” (toot or tweet) · ·
  12. How to Test for Accessibility with Users at Every Design Stage (toot or tweet) · · ,
  13. Static vs. Dynamic vs. Jamstack: Where’s the Line? (toot or tweet) · · ,
  14. Accessible Contrast Ratios and A-Levels Explained (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  15. Adding 100 Underline/Overlay Animations: The Impressive CSS Collection (toot or tweet) · · ,
  16. “<Lazy>” Rendering in Vue to Improve Performance (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  17. Principles by Design (toot or tweet) · · ,
  18. “return await promise” vs. “return promise” in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · ,
  19. The Complete Guide to HTML Forms and Constraint Validation (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  20. The State of Mobile First and Desktop First (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  21. A Performance-Focused Workflow Based on Google Tools (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  22. Exploring the CSS Paint API: Image Fragmentation Effect (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  23. Google vs. the Web (toot or tweet) · · ,
  24. How Writing Can Advance Your Career as a Developer (toot or tweet) · · ,
  25. HTTP/3 from A to Z: Core Concepts (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  26. JavaScript Development: Making a Web Worker Optional (toot or tweet) · · ,
  27. The World of CSS Transforms (toot or tweet) · ·
  28. Next-Level List Bullets with CSS “::marker” (toot or tweet) · · ,
  29. Uploading Multiple Files with Fetch (toot or tweet) · ·
  30. Browsers and Representation (toot or tweet) · ·
  31. On the “<dl>” (toot or tweet) · ·
  32. A Guide to Accessible Digital UX Design (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  33. Inclusive Usability Testing: The Benefits of Inclusive Design (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  34. Sustainable Web Design, an Excerpt (toot or tweet) · ·
  35. Visualizing a Codebase (toot or tweet) · · ,
  36. Why Are We Talking So Much About Design Leadership? (toot or tweet) · · ,
  37. Accessibility Testing with Storybook (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  38. CSS Nesting, Specificity, and You (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  39. React Children and Iteration Methods (toot or tweet) · ·
  40. Refresher on JavaScript Callbacks and Promises (toot or tweet) · ·
  41. Using CSS Shapes for Interesting User Controls and Navigation (toot or tweet) · · ,
  42. What Are Accessibility Overlays Good For? (toot or tweet) · · ,
  43. Writing Great Alt Text: Emotion Matters (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  44. A Deep Dive on Skipping to Content (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  45. Building the Perfect GitHub CI Workflow for Your Frontend Team (toot or tweet) · · ,
  46. How to Build Resilient JavaScript UIs (toot or tweet) · · ,
  47. How to Use “Promise.allSettled()” (toot or tweet) · ·
  48. Using localStorage with React Hooks (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  49. Web Accessibility Myths: Debunking 7 Common Misconceptions (toot or tweet) · ·
  50. What Devs Need (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  51. 2021 Scroll Survey Report (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  52. How We Reduced Next.js Page Size by 3.5× and Achieved a 98 Lighthouse Score (toot or tweet) · · ,
  53. Mitigating User Errors (toot or tweet) · · ,
  54. Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing, and Maintenance (toot or tweet) · · , , , ,
  55. The (Most Comprehensive) JavaScript Design Principles Guide (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  56. Why It’s Okay for Web Components to Use Frameworks (toot or tweet) · · ,
  57. 101 Digital Accessibility Tips and Tricks (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  58. Avoid the Most Common 18 Mistakes to Make Your UI/UX Design Better (toot or tweet) · · ,
  59. Chrome DevTools: Better Accessibility Inspection with the Source Order Viewer (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  60. 5 Git Tips to Level Up Your Workflow (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  61. Best Practices for Tags and Tag Managers (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  62. CSS Architecture and Performance in Micro Frontends (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  63. How to Stay Focused as a Self-Taught Frontend Web Developer (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  64. Optimizing Your Own Performance as a Designer (toot or tweet) · · ,
  65. There Is No Such Thing as a CSS Absolute Unit (toot or tweet) · · ,
  66. Architecting and Scaffolding a TypeScript and Express API (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  67. Creating an Accessible Dialog from Scratch (toot or tweet) · ·
  68. How to Hand Off Accessible Designs to Developers? (toot or tweet) · · ,
  69. Learnings from a WebPageTest Session on CSS-Tricks (toot or tweet) · ·
  70. Safari Isn’t Protecting the Web, It’s Killing It (toot or tweet) · · ,
  71. Using Absolute Value, Sign, Rounding, and Modulo in CSS Today (toot or tweet) · ·
  72. CSS Logical Properties and Values (toot or tweet) · · ,
  73. Global vs. Local Styling in Next.js (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  74. Is It Time to Ditch the Design Grid? (toot or tweet) · · ,
  75. Thinking About the Cut-Out Effect: CSS or SVG? (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  76. When You Cannot Run Away from Using Tables on Mobile (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  77. Accessible Design from the Get-Go (toot or tweet) · ·
  78. Getting Started with React “useContext” Hook and React Context (toot or tweet) · · ,
  79. My First CSS—What I Wish I Knew About CSS When Starting Out as a Frontender (toot or tweet) · · ,
  80. Overview of the RenderingNG Architecture (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  81. Takeaways from the 2021 State of Digital Accessibility Report (toot or tweet) · · ,
  82. UX Principles That Include Cognitive Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  83. 5 UI Tips to Become a Better Front-End Developer (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  84. Break HTML Content into Newspaper-Like Columns Using Pure CSS (toot or tweet) · · ,
  85. Complete Introduction to CSS Flexbox (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  86. Four Factors in UX Maturity (toot or tweet) · ·
  87. It Is Time to Ditch the Title “Evangelist” from Accessibility (toot or tweet) · ·
  88. You Don’t Need React for Building Websites (toot or tweet) · ·
  89. Accessibility Strategy for Product Management (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  90. How to Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources: a Deep Dive (toot or tweet) · · ,
  91. The Vanishing Designer (toot or tweet) · · ,
  92. Using Google Drive as a CMS (toot or tweet) · · ,
  93. What We Learned About Accessibility by Scanning More Than 2 Million Federal .gov Web Pages (toot or tweet) · ·
  94. Custom Properties and “@ property” (toot or tweet) · · ,
  95. Definition of Done vs. Acceptance Criteria (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  96. Simple Monorepos Via npm Workspaces and TypeScript Project References (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  97. Why the WCAG Colour Contrast Ratio Doesn’t Always Seem to Work (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  98. A Visual Guide to React Rendering—It Always Re-Renders (toot or tweet) · · ,
  99. From a Colourblind Designer to the World: Please Stop Using Red and Green Together (toot or tweet) · · ,
  100. The Accessibility Stalemate (toot or tweet) · ·
  101. 6 Useful Frontend Techniques That You May Not Know About (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  102. An Introduction to Frameworkless Web Components (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  103. Journey of a Web Page—How Browsers Work (toot or tweet) · · ,
  104. Maintaining End-to-End Quality with Visual Testing (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  105. Practical Use Cases for Scroll-Linked Animations in CSS with Scroll Timelines (toot or tweet) · · ,
  106. The Ultimate Cheat Sheet List for Web Developers (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  107. Designing for Information Density (toot or tweet) · ·
  108. Accessibility of the “Section” Element (toot or tweet) · · ,
  109. The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021 (toot or tweet) · ·
  110. What I Learned from “Software Engineering at Google” (toot or tweet) · ·
  111. Content Accessibility Fact Sheet (toot or tweet) · · ,
  112. Designing for the Unexpected (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  113. For Developers, Apple’s Safari Is Crap and Outdated (toot or tweet) · · ,
  114. Hobson’s Browser—How Apple, Facebook, and Google Broke the Mobile Browser Market by Silently Undermining User Choice (toot or tweet) · · , , , ,
  115. How to Get a Pixel-Perfect, Linearly Scaled UI (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  116. The Performance Effects of Too Much Lazy-Loading (toot or tweet) · · ,
  117. There’s No Such Thing as Fully Automated Web Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · ,
  118. What Is Tree Shaking? (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  119. Angular Is Costing Companies Billions (toot or tweet) · ·
  120. Build Complex CSS Transitions Using Custom Properties and “cubic-bezier()” (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  121. I’m Changing How I Review Code (toot or tweet) · · ,
  122. The 3-Second Frontend Developer Test (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  123. What’s the Difference Between the Alignment Values of “start”, “flex-start”, and “self-start”? (toot or tweet) · ·
  124. The Most Important Lessons I’ve Learned from Senior Software Engineers (toot or tweet) · ·
  125. The Ultimate Guide to Browser-Side Storage (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  126. Detecting Media Query Support in CSS and JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  127. How to Migrate from jQuery to Next.js (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  128. Gridless Design (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  129. Refactoring CSS: Introduction (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  130. TypeScript Interfaces: A Quick Guide to Help You Get Started (toot or tweet) · · ,
  131. What People Should Know Before Writing Articles or Creating Products About Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · ,
  132. Freelance React Developer Checklist (toot or tweet) · · ,
  133. How to Convert Arrays to Human-Readable Lists in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  134. Image Descriptions: A Human Technique That Robots Can’t Grasp (toot or tweet) · · ,
  135. Making a Strong Case for Accessibility (toot or tweet) · ·
  136. The Document Outline (toot or tweet) · · ,
  137. Creating Accessible CSS Art (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  138. Performance Design: The Illusion of Speed (toot or tweet) · · ,
  139. The Large, Small, and Dynamic Viewports (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  140. The Numeric Colour Palettes in Modern Web Frameworks Explained (toot or tweet) · · ,
  141. ARIA in HTML (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  142. Five Ways to Include D/Deaf Users in Your Designs (toot or tweet) · · ,
  143. TypeScript and Native ESM on Node.js (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  144. Accessibility and Inclusivity: Distinctions in Experience Design (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  145. How Does Node.js Load Its Built-In/Native Modules? (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  146. How to Use “Promise.all()” (toot or tweet) · ·
  147. The Dilemma of Naming Font Size Variables (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  148. Using HSL Colors in CSS (toot or tweet) · · ,
  149. Where Did This Interaction Come From?—A Brief History of Interaction Design (toot or tweet) · · ,
  150. Basics of JavaScript Test Driven Development (TDD) with Jest (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  151. Feature Checklists Are Not Enough: How to Avoid Making Bad Software (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  152. “export default thing” Is Different to “export { thing as default }” (toot or tweet) · ·
  153. Evaluating Color and Contrast—How Hard Can It Be? (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  154. Short Note on Skip Links with Sticky Headers (toot or tweet) · · ,
  155. Accessibility and SEO (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  156. It’s a (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls and How to Solve Them (toot or tweet) · · ,
  157. Towards Richer Colors on the Web (toot or tweet) · · ,
  158. 10 Figma Best Practices to 10× Your Workflow (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  159. 9 Tips to Help You Ace a Whiteboard Interview (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  160. Detecting Hover-Capable Devices (toot or tweet) · ·
  161. Encoding Data for POST Requests (toot or tweet) · · ,
  162. How We Built React Components for Any Front End (toot or tweet) · · ,
  163. The Internet Is Rotting (toot or tweet) · · ,
  164. The State of Web Workers in 2021 (toot or tweet) · · ,
  165. When a Click Is Not Just a Click (toot or tweet) · ·
  166. Use the “i” Element, and Use It Appropriately (toot or tweet) · · ,
  167. CSS Frameworks in Vogue, but Don’t Forget Style Fundamentals (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  168. Good News: Google No Longer Requires Publishers to Use the AMP Format (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  169. Resource Inlining in JavaScript Frameworks (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  170. Screen Readers: Hearing the Unseen (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  171. The Most Popular Design Thinking Strategy Is BS (toot or tweet) · · ,
  172. Tip: Don’t Preprocess What You Can Design Token (toot or tweet) · · ,
  173. I Regret Being a Hipster in Tech (toot or tweet) · ·
  174. My Journey from a Novice to a Front-End Engineer (toot or tweet) · ·
  175. timefind (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  176. All You Need Is 5 Fonts (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  177. Building a Responsive Layout with CSS Grid and Container Queries (toot or tweet) · · , , , ,
  178. Container Queries and the Future of CSS (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  179. Debugging JavaScript and Front-End (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  180. JavaScript Frameworks and the Lost Art of HTML (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  181. Using CSS to Enforce Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · ,
  182. Accessibility in React (toot or tweet) · · ,
  183. Making the Web—Faster (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  184. No Code Reviews by Default (toot or tweet) · ·
  185. React Architecture: How to Structure and Organize a React Application (toot or tweet) · · ,
  186. The True Cost of a Redesign (toot or tweet) · · ,
  187. A Framework for Building Open Graph Images (toot or tweet) · · ,
  188. Craft Good Questions for Usability Tests (toot or tweet) · · ,
  189. Custom Scrollbars in CSS (toot or tweet) · ·
  190. Demystifying Styled Components (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  191. RenderingNG—Ready for the Next Generation of Web Content (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  192. Sorting Colors in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  193. What’s New in ES2021 (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  194. How to Use Dynamic Imports in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · ·
  195. Keeping It Consistent: Design Tokens (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  196. Organize Your CSS Declarations Alphabetically (toot or tweet) · · ,
  197. Blogged Answers: The Evolution of Redux Testing Approaches (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  198. Updating a 25-Year-Old Website (toot or tweet) · ·
  199. How Apple Changed the Way We Navigate—Forever (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  200. OMG, SVG Favicons FTW! (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  201. Optical Size, the Hidden Superpower of Variable Fonts (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  202. A Complete Guide to Accessibility Tooling (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  203. NPM Global Audit (toot or tweet) · · , , , ,
  204. Shut Up, Old Man… (toot or tweet) · ·
  205. Everyday Accessibility (toot or tweet) · ·
  206. Understanding and Preventing Common Security Vulnerabilities (toot or tweet) · ·
  207. When CSS Isn’t Enough: JavaScript Requirements for Accessible Components (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  208. Provided “As Is,” Without Warranty of Any Kind (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  209. Regular Expressions (RegEx) in Google Search Console (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  210. Adding Shadows to SVG Icons with CSS and SVG Filters (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  211. How to Center Anything in CSS Using Flexbox and Grid (toot or tweet) · · ,
  212. Half the Size of Images by Optimising for High Density Displays (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  213. React Cheat Sheet (Updated June 2021) (toot or tweet) · · ,
  214. Serving Sharp Images to High Density Screens (toot or tweet) · · ,
  215. The Art of Frontend Engineering (toot or tweet) · ·
  216. Let’s Learn About Aspect Ratio in CSS (toot or tweet) · ·
  217. The Ultimate CSS Flexbox Cheat Sheet with Examples (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  218. An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  219. Building a Color Scheme (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  220. Meet :has, a Native CSS Parent Selector (And More) (toot or tweet) · ·
  221. Micro-Expressions in User Testing: When Users Reveal Their True Emotional States (toot or tweet) · · ,
  222. Ready-Made Counter Styles (toot or tweet) · · ,
  223. Why Validate? (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  224. Component-Specific Design Tokens (toot or tweet) · · ,
  225. Improving the UX of Your Design System (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  226. Reasons Why Bugs Might Feel “Impossible” (toot or tweet) · · ,
  227. 10 Utility Functions for Working with Objects in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · ,
  228. Accessible Overflow (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  229. An Accessibility Strategy (toot or tweet) · · ,
  230. What Can the HTTP Archive Tell Us About Largest Contentful Paint? (toot or tweet) · ·
  231. Using AVIF to Compress Images on Your Site (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  232. Vue.js vs. React—Not Your Usual Comparison (toot or tweet) · · , , ,
  233. Best Practices for Fonts (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  234. CSS System Colors (toot or tweet) · · ,
  235. Open Source Insights (toot or tweet) · · , , , ,
  236. CSS for Web Vitals (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  237. How To Fix Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Issues (toot or tweet) · ·
  238. Why Accessibility Overlays Hurt More Than Help (toot or tweet) · · ,
  239. Thoughts for the Aging Web Developer (toot or tweet) · ·
  240. Embracing Design Constraints (toot or tweet) · ·
  241. The Hidden World of “aria-hidden” (toot or tweet) · · ,
  242. Disabling a Link (toot or tweet) · · ,
  243. How to Build an Image Comparison Slider (toot or tweet) · · ,
  244. What Makes a Great Component Library? (toot or tweet) · · ,
  245. Accessible Web Forms (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  246. A Thorough Analysis of CSS-in-JS (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  247. History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 Until Today (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  248. Writing Better Regular Expressions in PHP (toot or tweet) · · , ,
  249. 25 Years of CSS (toot or tweet) · · ,
  250. Your Design System Is Actually a Product—Treat It Like One (toot or tweet) · ·