CSS Scan: The Fastest Way to Inspect and Copy CSS
17.5.2019
CSS Scan is a super cool tool I've just learned about from Chris Nwamba. It allows you to inspect and copy CSS
React Starter: Adding Sass to Create React App Applications
17.5.2019
Adding Sass is one of the first things most developers do when starting an application. Writing in plain CSS can be done, but Sas
Collective #516
16.5.2019
Subgrid * Ola * PHP Insights * What the Fr(action)? * HandUI * Functional-ish JavaScript
Collective #516 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Iterating a React Design with Styled Components
16.5.2019
In a perfect world, our projects would have unlimited resources and time. Our teams would begin coding with well thought out and highly refined UX designs. There would be consensus among developers about the best way to approach styling. There’d be one or more CSS gurus on the team who could ensure...
Evergreen Googlebot
16.5.2019
I've heard people say that the #1 most exciting and important thing that came out of Google I/O this year was the evergreen Googlebot:
Today, we are happy to announce that Googlebot now runs the latest Chromium rendering engine (74 at the time of this post) when rendering pages for Search. Moving...
Using Jetpack to Accelerate WordPress Development
16.5.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
[Geoff:] I've built a fair number of WordPress sites in my day. It's been my go-to since the 2.x-ish days because it works for any site, big or small. That's the sort of solution and flexibility you like to have as a freelancer.
Boy, I wish I had Jetpack available...
Google Fonts Now Supports font-display!
16.5.2019
font-display is a CSS feature that allows us to control how we load fonts.
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Animated Image Columns
16.5.2019
An experimental web layout where several image columns get animated out when a menu item is clicked.
Animated Image Columns was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
A Deep Dive into Native Lazy-Loading for Images and Frames
15.5.2019
Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. Many of them, however, are never shown to a user because they're placed way below the fold.
What’s this thing about images being lazy, you ask? Lazy-loading...
A Better Approach for Using Purgecss with Tailwind
15.5.2019
Greg Kohn looks at how to use Purgecss — a tool that helps remove unused styles — and Tailwind — a utility-based CSS framework — and why we might want to pair these tools together:
Tailwind, by intention, is aiming to equip you with an arsenal of utility classes...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for May 2019
15.5.2019
A curated list of our favorite open-source projects for the month of May
React Starter: Using Create React App to Make React Applications
15.5.2019
Usually when you create a React application, you’ll be creating a single page app (SPA). In order to make setting up single page apps easier, a CLI tool called