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5 Important Takeaways From the State of JavaScript Survey 2018
11.12.2018
The yearly State Of JavaScript survey results came out recently, and if you care about Web Development, you care about the results. In this article, we'll explo
Build a To-Do application Using Django and React
6.12.2018
Web development has grown rapidly over the last decade, and there's a long list of frameworks to choose from when building your projects. A developer’s decision on what framework(s) to use for a p
Bridging the Gap Between CSS and JavaScript: CSS-in-JS
3.12.2018
In this article, we’re going to dig into the concept of CSS-in-JS. If you’re already acquainted with this concept, you might still enjoy a stroll through the philosophy of that approach, and you might be even more interested in the next article.
Web development is very interdisciplinary. We’re used...
5 Reasons Static Sites Rock!
16.11.2018
Static Sites are the new hotness in Web Development and rightfully so. Every day on podcasts, blog articles, and tweets I see and hear more and more people converting their sites. Let's check out f
8 Digit Hex Colors
16.7.2018
One of the most requested capabilities in my early days of web development was the ability to set opacity on elements and even PNG images without the need for browser-specific CSS or hacks. Eventually we got native opacity support and even enjoyed rgba(), the ability to cite an opacity level with...
Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution
3.7.2018
The web community has, for the most part, been a spectacularly open place. As such, a lot of the best development techniques happen right out in the open, on blogs and in forums, evolving as they’re passed around and improved. I thought it might be fun (and fascinating) to actually follow this...
Empower Through Web Development
28.6.2018
As a person with a disability, I appreciate the web and modern-day computing for their many affordances. The web is a great place to work and share and connect. You can make a living, build your dream, and speak your mind.
It’s not easy, though. Beginners struggling with the box model often take...
Forms, Auth and Serverless Functions on Gatsby and Netlify
31.5.2018
Abstracting infrastructure is in our DNA. Roads, schools, water supply networks—you get the idea. Web development is no exception: serverless architectures are a beautiful expression of that phenomenon. Static sites, in particular, are turning into dynamic, rich experiences.
Handling static...
Free Introduction to Web Development Workshop
15.5.2018
Brian Holt and the Frontend Masters team are putting on a free workshop today and tomorrow that is live-streamed for anyone that's interested. This is super cool because, despite the fact that there is a mountain of articles about web development out there, there are only few that start with...
What’s wrong with CSS-in-JS?
11.5.2018
Brad Frost thinks it's:
Lack of portability
Context Switching
Flushing best practices down the toilet
In the spirit of good-ol-fashioned blog-and-response, here's:
Brain Muenzenmeyer's response
Micah Godbolt's response
I'd like to point out that "CSS-in-JS" is an umbrella term, and that there...
Turn Sublime Text 3 into a JavaScript IDE
11.5.2018
Sublime Text is one of the most popular editors for web development and software development in general. It’s very smooth and fast compared to other editors (being written in C++ helps that speed). Sublime also has tons of plugins you can find through Package Control.
But it’s only a text editor...
Git Integration in Visual Studio Code
9.5.2018
Visual Studio Code has easily become one of the most popular editors out there for Web Development. It has gained such popularity thanks to its many built in features, including source control inte
WDRL — Edition 217: Easy Hard Web Development, Branding Details and Unidirectional Data Flows with Server-Sent Events
16.2.2018
Hey,
Every profession is a wide field where many people find their very own, custom niches. So is design and web development today. I started building my first website with framesets and HTML4.0, images and a super limited set of CSS, and oh fancy, gifs and inline JavaScript (remember...