About Frontend Dogma

Frontend Dogma is a fire-hose source for everyone interested in studying, practicing, and staying up-to-date on frontend development.

Mission

Are you hiring remote frontend specialists? Post your frontend job ad.

Featured on Frontend Dogma? Whitelist your domain.

The goal of Frontend Dogma is to serve as the most comprehensive news and tooling source for frontend development:

Share important, useful, interesting, and sometimes contrarian information about everything related to frontend development and the profession itself
Make that information easy to access and syndicate (via various RSS feeds, Mastodon, Bluesky, and eventually more platforms)
Give good credit to authors and publishers (with ample social media mentions and “do-follow” links for whitelisted domains)
(And, offer Frontend Dogma followers to be found by organizations that hire remote frontend specialists)

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, but Frontend Dogma is to feature other authors and book types as well. 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. (You’ll find material about everything, including Netscape 4, Conditional Comments, and AMP!)

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.

How Do Attributions Work?

Authors and publishers who can be found on Mastodon or Bluesky are being attributed with their social media handles. If your work is featured, you’re on Mastodon or Bluesky, but you’re not being attributed, please reach out.

(Some platforms, like Twitter/X, violate Frontend Dogma’s values and are therefore not supported. In X’s case, which had been supported in the past, this is to lead to missing attributions for some time to come [affected authors and publishers can help by sharing their Mastodon or Bluesky handles and pointing to material they published]. Other platforms, when embraced by the web development community and adopting strong values, might be considered in the future.)

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 serve no important purpose.

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

Going by the topics, Frontend Dogma does indeed cover more than “just” frontend development. (The same has happened to The Web Development Glossary—a Frontend Dogma project—, whose site was called WebGlossary.info for a reason!)

That is both bug and feature: It’s a bug because on Frontend Dogma, the line is being drawn 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, web and full-stack developers will find a lot of value in Frontend Dogma.

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 secret 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 Highlight My Site on Frontend Dogma?

Frontend Dogma doesn’t sell links or link promotions. However, if your site is already linked from Frontend Dogma, you can have it whitelisted for extra benefits.

Can I Make Other Suggestions and Contributions?

Yes! Feedback and initiative are always welcome.

If you want to support Frontend Dogma—which would help, as the project is hard free-time work and far from being sustainable—, consider Frontend Dogma’s books or backing Frontend Dogma on Open Collective or on Patreon.

(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.)