About Frontend Dogma

Welcome to Frontend Dogma, the other source for everyone interested in studying, practicing, and staying up-to-date on frontend development.

Mission

The goal of Frontend Dogma is to serve as a decent news and tooling source for frontend development: Share meaningful information; make that information easy to access (via RSS feed, Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter/X, and eventually more platforms); and give good credit to authors and publishers (with “do-follow” links for vetted websites [more information upcoming] and ample social media mentions).

Frontend Dogma is also a small and humble publisher of books about frontend development. The first titles are ebooks by the one-person team behind Frontend Dogma, Jens Oliver Meiert. Over time, Frontend Dogma will feature other authors and book types. If you’re an author writing about frontend development, get in touch about how Frontend Dogma and you could fit together.

FAQ

How Dogmatic Is Frontend Dogma?

Not dogmatic at all. Everyone working on Frontend Dogma has convictions, but the site isn’t about dogma and there is no agenda. (Hey, you even find news about Tailwind.)

Should It Be “Frontend Dogma”—or “Full Stack Dogma” or Even “Web Dogma”?

Going by the topics, Frontend Dogma really covers more than “just” frontend development, doesn’t it? (The same has happened to The Web Development Glossary—a Frontend Dogma project—, whose site was called WebGlossary.info for this reason!)

That is both bug and feature: It’s a bug because on Frontend Dogma, the line is being drawn very loosely, and could use refining. At the same time, it’s a feature: Do we become better frontend specialists by only looking at ourselves, or also at what’s going on around us?

That said, full stack developers, web developers, everyone is most welcome here.

Do You Fact-Check and Endorse Everything You’re Linking?

No. That would neither be possible nor desirable. There are many viewpoints, even in frontend development, and people err, also in frontend development.

Do You Alter Article Headlines?

For consistency reasons, all headlines on Frontend Dogma use title case. (Things would look weird and read poorly if it was all mixed.) That means that headlines of articles that don’t originally use title case are converted to title case. Other than that, headlines are only—but not always—edited if there’s a typo, or to remove emojis that seem decorative or promotional.

What Else Is There to Know About Frontend Dogma?

For its first one and a half years, Frontend Dogma had a sister site: UITest.com (2003–2022) featured “web-based tools for web development and design” until it was folded into the tools section of Frontend Dogma. That tools section also includes UITest.com’s and now Frontend Dogma’s Site Check which, if you haven’t tried it yet, you should absolutely play around with. Enjoy testing!

Can I Propose or Provide Content for Frontend Dogma?

Absolutely. Please reach out by sending an email or a direct message on Mastodon.

To propose links to be featured on Frontend Dogma, you can also try the unofficial front matter generator to file an issue together with the generated files (the repository for frontenddogma.com is temporarily private).

And, as mentioned above, if you’re writing a book related to frontend development and are looking for a publisher, let’s talk more over email as well.

Can I Make Other Suggestions and Contributions?

Yes! Feedback and initiative are always welcome.

If you want to further support Frontend Dogma, consider Frontend Dogma’s books, or back Frontend Dogma on Open Collective.

(On Open Collective you can also share ideas on what could be a great next feature—ideas on anything that would help your work as a frontend developer, lead, or manager.)