News and Tools for Frontend Development (8)
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- Web Development Advent Calendars for 2023 (by) · · link-lists, learning
- Does Web Design Matter? (by) · · design, web
- I Replaced npm, Yarn, and nvm With pnpm (by) · · dependencies, npm, yarn, pnpm, nvm
- CSS Relative Colors (by/via) · · css, colors
- Search vs. Browse · · user-experience, browsing, searching, comparisons
- How to Use a Color Font (by) · · how-tos, fonts, css
- Debugging BFCache, Make Your Page Load Instantly (by+/via) · · videos, performance, caching, user-agents, google, chrome, dev-tools, debugging
- The UX of HTML (by) · · html, semantics, user-experience
- Recovering Deleted Files From Your Git Working Tree (by/via) · · git, command-line
- Create Dynamic Web Experiences With Interactive SVG Animations (via) · · svg, images, animations, tooling
- How to Use Chrome’s Accessibility Tree (via) · · how-tos, accessibility, user-agents, google, chrome
- Firefox on the Brink? (by) · · user-agents, mozilla, firefox
- Preparing for a Live Demo (by) · · career
- Creating a Marquee Effect With CSS Animations (by) · · css, animations, effects
- Not All Screen Reader Users Are Blind (by) · · accessibility, user-experience, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- New to the Web Platform in November (by/via) · · release-notes, web-platform, user-agents, google, chrome, mozilla, firefox
- Is 2024 the Year of CSS Nesting? (by/via) · · css, nesting
- Node v21.3.0 (by/via) · · release-notes, nodejs
- Hide and Debug Empty Elements With CSS (by/via) · · css
- Fetch API, Do You Really Know How to Handle Errors? (by) · · data-fetching, apis, errors
- Measure LCP Sub-Parts to Improve Largest Contentful Paint (via) · · performance, web-vitals, metrics
- Testing in Production With Canary Deployments: A How-To Guide (by) · · guides, testing, deploying
- Design That Scales (by) · · books, design, design-systems, scaling, processes
- CSS: BEM or Atomic Design (by) · · css, bem, atomic-design, comparisons
- Oh No, Overflow! (by/via) · · css, layout
- Care Beyond Code: 7 Best Design Practices for Frontend Developers (by+/via) · · design, best-practices
- How to Use the File System in Node.js (by/via) · · how-tos, file-handling, nodejs, apis
- Accessing .env Files Natively With Node.js (by) · · nodejs, environments
- The Difference Between Nesting an “@ layer” in “@ media” and “@ container” Query (by) · · videos, css, media-queries, at-rules, container-queries, comparisons
- Checking the Type of a String in PHP (by) · · php
- Accessibility: A Practical Perspective (by) · · accessibility
- Kicking the Excessive JavaScript Habit (by/via) · · javascript, performance, developer-experience, user-experience
- Resource Loading at the Cutting Edge (by/via) · · videos, performance
- The “hanging-punctuation” Property in CSS (by) · · css, typography
- Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-In (by) · · web-components, javascript, frameworks, maintainability
- 10 JavaScript Changes You Missed in 2023 (by/via) · · videos, javascript, retrospectives
- “An Accessible Website Won’t Be Beautiful”… Really?! · · design, accessibility
- Burnout in the Digital Accessibility Field (by) · · accessibility, career
- A Complete Guide to pnpm (via) · · guides, pnpm, dependencies
- Keyboard Accessibility Myths and WCAG (by/via) · · accessibility, keyboard-navigation, wcag, myths
- Are Design Ethics Useless? (by) · · design, ethics
- “oklch()” Retains Perceived Lightness for Different Hue Angles (by) · · css, functions, colors, oklch
- OOP Design Patterns in JavaScript (by) · · javascript, software-design-patterns
- Progressive Enhancement vs. Graceful Degradation: Approaches to Web Development · · progressive-enhancement, graceful-degradation, comparisons
- Preventing Scroll “Bounce” With CSS (by/via) · · css, scrolling
- A Few Ways CSS Is Easier to Write in 2023 (by/via) · · css, techniques, comparisons
- Accessibility Is Leadership (by) · · accessibility, leadership
- Design Systems Metrics—What I Have Learned Leading the [Design System] of the Biggest Edtech in Latin America (by) · · design-systems, metrics, lessons
- Weird HTML Hacks (by) · · html, css, hacks, techniques, history
- How to Test 3.3.7 Redundant Entry (via) · · how-tos, accessibility, testing, wcag
- State of JavaScript 2023 (by/via) · · surveys, javascript
- Browsers Only Update “:target” on Page Load and During Fragment Navigation (by/via) · · css, selectors
- Choosing a Green Web Host (by/via) · · hosting, sustainability
- Test Often to Keep Your Designs Simple (by) · · design, prototyping, testing, simplicity
- Vue and Vite Status Update (by/via) · · videos, vuejs, vite
- Shadow DOM Is for Hiding Your Shame (by) · · shadow-dom, dom, web-components, html
- Psychology of Speed: A Guide to Perceived Performance (by/via) · · guides, performance, user-experience
- The Elevator Pitch for Web Components (by) · · web-components, html, dom
- URL Parser Performance (by) · · urls, parsing, performance
- Why We Don’t Like TDD: A Developer’s Perspective (via) · · testing, processes
- An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid (by) · · guides, css, layout
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive JavaScript (by/via) · · videos, javascript, frameworks, performance
- Demystifying Web Push Notifications (by) · · notifications, javascript
- Easy Introduction to Variables and Data Types in Programming for Beginners (by/via) · · introductions, data-types, programming
- The Tension and Future of Jamstack (by) · · tech-stacks, jamstack
- Conducting a Content Audit to Improve Your Content (via) · · content, auditing, quality, optimization
- Navigating the Intersection of Brand Strategy and User Experience (by/via) · · branding, strategies, user-experience
- CSS4 Is Coming (Not a Clickbait) (by/via) · · videos, css
- The 9 HTML Elements That Have an Attribute of the Same Name, or: The 9 Attributes That Have an Element of the Same Name (by) · · html
- Announcing TypeScript 5.3 (by/via) · · release-notes, typescript
- How to Avoid Breaking Web Pages for Keyboard Users (by/via) · · how-tos, accessibility, keyboard-navigation
- What Are Webhooks and How to Use Them · · webhooks
- Inspecting WCAG 2.2: Target Size (via) · · videos, accessibility, wcag, standards
- Jimdo’s Engineering Guidelines (by/via) · · guidelines, processes, collaboration, onboarding, case-studies
- Width and Height in CSS (by) · · css
- CSS Nesting (by) · · css, nesting
- CSS Nesting UX in DevTools (by) · · css, nesting, user-experience, developer-experience, user-agents, dev-tools
- An Attempted Taxonomy of Web Components (by) · · web-components, html
- Skip PHPUnit Tests Conditionally in PHP (by) · · php, testing
- The CSS Property You Didn’t Know You Needed · · css
- 10 Great Websites to Learn Web Development (by) · · link-lists, learning
- 26 Frontend Certifications for Web Developers (by) · · training, career, link-lists
- Comparison of Accessibility of E-Government Websites in Europe (by) · · accessibility, case-studies, comparisons
- How Independent Publishing Has Changed From the 1990s Until Today (by) · · history, writing, web
- HTML Web Components Are Just JavaScript? (by/via) · · web-components, javascript, html
- Why You Should Curate, Not Create, a Design System (by/via) · · design-systems, processes
- 5 Formatting Techniques for Long-Form Content (via) · · usability, content, writing, formatting, techniques
- Integrating MongoDB With Node.js (via) · · mongodb, nodejs
- 10 Tips for Driving Design System Adoption (by/via) · · design-systems, tips-and-tricks
- “NODE_ENV=production” Is a Lie (by) · · videos, nodejs, environments, optimization
- Understanding Dev Dependencies in Web Development · · dependencies
- Exclusive Accordions Exclude (by) · · accessibility, html
- Getting Started With CSS Container Queries (by/via) · · introductions, css, container-queries
- Vite 5.0 Is Out (via) · · release-notes, vite
- How to Use Node.js With Docker (by/via) · · how-tos, nodejs, docker
- Until the Right Design Emerges… (by) · · design
- Using Chrome’s Accessibility Tree for Manual Testing of HTML and ARIA (by/via) · · videos, user-agents, google, chrome, dev-tools, accessibility, testing, html, aria
- Evolution of Visible Focus (by/via) · · videos, accessibility, focus
- 4 Web Devs, 1 App Idea (by+/via) · · videos, web-apps, case-studies
- The Best CSS Background Patterns for Your Next Project · · css, backgrounds
- The Developer Job Market Is Insane—5 Tips on How to Survive (by) · · career, interviewing, tips-and-tricks
- Is It Worth Keeping Your CSS DRY—Pros and Cons · · css, maintainability, principles
- Introducing N|Solid Copilot: Your AI-Powered Node.js Navigator (by/via) · · nodejs, ai, tooling
- Why Doesn’t AI Work for Producing Accessible Code? (by) · · accessibility, code-generation, ai
- We Need to Have a Chat? I Think We Should Refactor · · design-systems, maintenance, refactoring
- Shattering the Design System: Unleashing the Creative Revolution (by/via) · · design-systems, creativity, processes
- Introduction to LangChain (by/via) · · introductions, langchain
- A Tip for Properly Handling Loading States in Web Apps (by) · · tips-and-tricks, state-management, web-apps
- Optimizing Frontend Performance: Mastering Memoization, Throttling, and Debouncing (by) · · performance, optimization, memoization, throttling, debouncing
- Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 183 (by/via) · · release-notes, user-agents, apple, safari
- About Subgrid and Colored Grid Lines (by) · · css, layout
- Using Selectlist in React (by/via) · · react, forms
- Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web · · web, community
- How to Optimize MongoDB Performance for Node.js (by/via) · · how-tos, mongodb, optimization, nodejs
- Modular CSS and Different Ways to Structure Your Stylesheets (by) · · css, modules
- Letter and Spirit of Web Development (by) · · community, processes
- Exploring V8’s Strings: Implementation and Optimizations (by) · · javascript, engines, v8, optimization
- How I Test a Website for Accessibility (by) · · accessibility, testing
- Designing for Accessibility Beyond Compliance (via) · · design, accessibility, compliance
- Elevate Your CSS Debugging Skills With These Chrome DevTools Tricks in 2024 (by) · · css, debugging, user-agents, google, chrome, dev-tools
- Accessibility Testing With Chrome DevTools (by) · · accessibility, testing, user-agents, google, chrome, dev-tools
- Simplifying the E2E Selectors Hassle (by/via) · · angular, typescript, testing
- Cracking a “Developer Tools Killer” Script… (by) · · user-agents, dev-tools, debugging
- Node.js Monthly Downloads (by) · · websites, nodejs, metrics
- Designing Web Design Documentation (by/via) · · documentation, design, design-systems
- Prettier 3.1: New Experimental Ternaries Formatting and Angular Control Flow Syntax (by/via) · · release-notes, prettier
- Monitoring Your Python App With AppSignal (by/via) · · python, monitoring, tooling
- The Top WordPress Plugins Are… a Little Sad? (by) · · wordpress, plugins
- Your Website’s URLs Can and Should Be Beautiful (by) · · urls, usability
- Introducing the Website Carbon Rating System (by/via) · · introductions, sustainability
- Growing Design by Letting Teams Experience It (by) · · design
- A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft (by/via) · · craft, retrospectives, web
- Cascade Layers, CSS Functions, and More CSS With Miriam Suzanne (by+/via) · · podcasts, interviews, css, cascade, functions
- Text With Media Background: Practical Solutions (by/via) · · images, microcontent, readability, accessibility
- HTML Web Components (by) · · html, web-components
- The Nature of Digital Is Environmentally Destructive (by) · · sustainability
- HTML First (by) · · websites, html, principles
- Accessibility Training Can Sometimes Harm Accessibility (by) · · accessibility, training
- Explaining Kubernetes to My Uber Driver (by) · · architecture, kubernetes
- Do You Really Need to Validate Your HTML Code? · · discussions, html, conformance
- Stop Using AI-Generated Images (by/via) · · ai, images
- AI Is the New UI (by/via) · · ai, design
- Lost in Translation: Tips for Multilingual Web Accessibility (by) · · tips-and-tricks, accessibility, internationalization, localization
- Mastering Cryptography Fundamentals With Node’s “crypto” Module (by) · · security, cryptography, nodejs
- NCSA Mosaic: How the First Mainstream Web Browser Changed the World Forever · · history, user-agents, mosaic
- Creating Accessible UI Animations (via) · · accessibility, animations
- CSS Nesting Is Here (by/via) · · css, nesting
- Cookie Permissions 101 (by/via) · · cookies, legal, user-experience
- A Faster Web in 2024 (by) · · performance, web-vitals, metrics, web
- Never Use “Scroll” Value for Overflow (by) · · css, scrolling
- Effective Engineering Teams (by) · · collaboration, career, leadership
- Modern Frontend Testing With Vitest, Storybook, and Playwright (by/via) · · testing, storybook, playwright
- HTML Web Components (by) · · web-components, html, web-platform
- How Long Until Your Website Is Accessible? (by) · · accessibility, processes
- Can Bun Eat Node.js’s Lunch? Testing the Trendy Toolkit (by/via) · · bun, nodejs, comparisons
- ES6 Features You Didn’t Know You Needed: A JavaScript Guide for Beginners (via) · · guides, javascript
- NaN or Not a Number? (by/via) · · javascript
- CSS Nesting Relaxed Syntax Update (by/via) · · css, nesting, user-agents, google, chrome, support
- Understanding HTML Landmarks and How to Apply Them (by/via) · · html, semantics, accessibility, aria
- Front End Devs Really Don’t Understand Accessibility (by) · · accessibility, craft
- CSS Positioning Crash Course (by/via) · · videos, css, layout
- Handling Null, Undefined, and Zero Values in JavaScript (by/via) · · javascript
- Using CSS “content-visibility” to Boost Your Rendering Performance (via) · · css, rendering, performance
- Web Developers: Remarkably Untalented and Careless? (by) · · quality, career, training
- Secure Code Review Tips to Defend Against Vulnerable Node.js Code (by) · · nodejs, security, code-reviews
- Everything About SEO Is Obnoxious (by) · · seo, quality, ethics
- Monolith to Microservices: 5 Strategies, Challenges, and Solutions (by/via) · · monoliths, microservices, architecture, migration, strategies
- How to Use Timeouts in Node.js (by/via) · · how-tos, nodejs, javascript
- “@ scope” (by/via) · · css, scope, at-rules
- Introducing Angular v17 (by/via) · · release-notes, angular
- (Don’t) Mind the Gap (by/via) · · css, layout
- Addressing Accessibility Concerns With Using Fluid Type (by/via) · · accessibility, responsive-design, css
- Writing Components That Work in Any Frontend Framework (by) · · web-components, frameworks
- Why We Need a “Green” Perf Metric (by/via) · · videos, sustainability, performance, metrics
- React Router v6: A Beginner’s Guide (by/via) · · guides, react, routing
- 13 HTML Attributes You Should Know About (by) · · html
- Accessibility Training Will Not Save You (by) · · accessibility, training, career, quality
- How Core Web Vitals Saved Users 10,000 Years of Waiting for Web Pages to Load (by+/via) · · google, performance, user-experience, metrics
- Surprising Facts About New CSS Selectors (by/via) · · css, selectors
- Headless Component: A Pattern for Composing React UIs (by/via) · · components, react, headless
- Deploying a Vue Application With Netlify and GitHub (via) · · deploying, vuejs, netlify, github
- Creating Accessible Content in Drupal 10 (by/via) · · videos, drupal, accessibility
- Truly Semantic (by) · · design-tokens, semantics, naming
- The Role of Prototyping in UX Design: From Wireframes to Interactive Mockups (by/via) · · user-experience, design, prototyping
- “git rebase”: What Can Go Wrong? (by) · · git
- Removing List Styles Without Affecting Semantics (by) · · html, css, semantics, accessibility
- How to Use npm Packages Outside of Node (via) · · how-tos, npm, dependencies, javascript
- Default Layouts in 11ty (by) · · eleventy
- How to Build a Server-Side React App Using Vite and Express (by/via) · · how-tos, react, vite, express, server-side-rendering
- To Hell With the Business Case (by) · · accessibility, economics, legal
- Understanding React Error Boundary (via) · · react
- image-dimensions (by) · · packages, npm, images
- How Creating Content as a Developer Changed My Life (by) · · career, learning
- WCAG 2.2 Will Be a Part of EN 301 549 and With That a Part of WAD and EAA (by) · · accessibility, wcag, standards, legal
- Understanding CORS (by) · · security, cors
- Messing About With CSS Gradients (by/via) · · css, gradients
- An Accessibility Bookmarklet for Testing 200% Text Size (by) · · accessibility, testing, bookmarklets
- Workarounds for Buggy Gradients (by) · · css, gradients, colors
- How to Do a TypeScript Conversion (by) · · how-tos, javascript, typescript, migration, conversion, refactoring
- GitHub Copilot Now Generates AI Commit Messages (by) · · github, ai, writing
- Totally Remdom, or How Browsers Zoom Text (by) · · accessibility, zooming, css, units, responsive-design
- Use the CSS “:disabled” Pseudo-Class Instead of the “[disabled]” Attribute Selector to Match Disabled Form Controls (by/via) · · css, selectors, forms
- Why You Should Use “px” Units for Margin, Padding, and Other Spacing Techniques (by) · · css, units, spacing, responsive-design
- Answers to Common (Web) Accessibility Questions (by) · · accessibility
- In Quest to Defeat Euro Red-Tape, Apple Said It Had Three Safari Browsers—Not One (by/via) · · user-agents, apple, safari, web, legal
- Information vs. Experience: How to Build Mature Design Systems (via) · · how-tos, comparisons, design-systems
- “:fullscreen” Demo Without JavaScript (by) · · css, selectors
- Can AI Help Boost Accessibility? These Researchers Tested It for Themselves (via) · · accessibility, ai, research
- How to Write Good Alt Text for Screen Readers (by) · · how-tos, accessibility, writing, alt-text, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- How to Use the Fetch API in Node.js, Deno, and Bun (by/via) · · how-tos, data-fetching, apis, nodejs, deno, bun, comparisons
- 10 Best Web Development Stacks · · tooling, tech-stacks
- Don’t Turn a Table Into an ARIA Grid Just for a Clickable Row (by) · · html, tables, aria, accessibility
- Speeding Up the JavaScript Ecosystem—Tailwind CSS (by) · · performance, javascript, tailwind
- 0 KB Social Media Embeds (by) · · embed-code, quality
- The People Who Ruined the Internet (by/via) · · web, google, seo
- Learn Performance (by+/via) · · courses, performance
- One HTML Tag, Thirty+ CSS Drawings—My Divtober 2023 Collection (by) · · css, art
- Breaking Down a Design (by) · · design
- Confusing Git Terminology (by) · · git, terminology
- The “prefers-reduced-transparency” Media Feature (by) · · css, media-queries, accessibility
- The Dangers of Doomscrolling for Designers and How to Break Free (via) · · career
- Dark Visitors (by) · · websites, ai, scraping, robotstxt
- A Comprehensive Guide to Data Engineering · · guides, data-engineering
- Response Code Cheat Sheet for Laravel HTTP Client (by) · · cheat-sheets, laravel, http
- Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 182 (by/via) · · release-notes, user-agents, apple, safari
- Blinded by the Light DOM (by) · · web-components, dom, shadow-dom, javascript
- How Bear Does Analytics With CSS · · analytics, metrics, css, case-studies
- Getting Started With NVDA (via) · · videos, introductions, assistive-tech, screen-readers, nvda, accessibility
- Personal-Scale Web Scraping for Fun and Profit · · scraping, javascript, functionality, optimization
- 2023: 0 of the Global Top 100 Websites Use Valid HTML (by) · · html, css, conformance, quality
- Remix ❤️ Vite (by+/via) · · remix, vite, support
- Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports (by/via) · · performance, optimization
- Accessibility by Degrees (by) · · accessibility, processes
- Mobile-First Indexing Has Landed—Thanks for All Your Support (by/via) · · mobile-first, seo, google
- Better Dynamic Themes in Tailwind With OKLCH Color Magic (by+/via) · · theming, tailwind, oklch, colors
- Why Signals Are Better Than React Hooks (by) · · videos, javascript, signals, react, hooks, comparisons
- A Complete Guide to LangChain in JavaScript (by/via) · · guides, langchain, javascript, frameworks
- Effective Strategies for Optimizing Performance (by/via) · · strategies, performance, optimization
- What Exactly Is “Modern” CSS? (by) · · css
- Interop 2023 October Update (by/via) · · interoperability, web-platform, user-agents, support
- 20 Effective Tips to Speed Up Your Drupal Website (by/via) · · drupal, tips-and-tricks, performance, optimization
- Don’t Disable Buttons (by) · · buttons, accessibility, javascript
- A Guide to Using MSSQL With Node.js (via) · · guides, nodejs, databases, sql
- Unit-Testing: The Unsung Hero of Code Quality (by) · · testing, quality
- Is Express Still “De Facto” for Building Node Backends? (by) · · discussions, express
- The New CSS Math: “rem()” and “mod()” (by) · · css, functions, math
- Let’s Reinvent the Wheel (by) · · html, css, user-experience, accessibility, web-platform
- Why Is node_modules Heavier Than the Universe? (by) · · nodejs
- View Transitions and Stacking Context: Why Does My CSS View Transition Ignore “z-index”? (by) · · css, animations, transitions
- An Introduction to Working With SVGs in React (via) · · introductions, images, svg, react