Tales From The Frontend

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franciscop/server
github.com - franciscop
Powerful server for Node.js that just works so you can focus on your awesome project: Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve …
Nov 11, 2017
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serverless-dotenv-plugin
npmjs.com
Preload environment variables into serverless. Use this plugin if you have variables stored in a .env file that you want loaded into your serverless …
Aug 7, 2017
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JavaScript spec gets strung out on padding
theregister.co.uk - Thomas Claburn
ECMAScript 2017 addresses left-pad gate, alongside various improvementsECMAScript 2017, the latest edition of the specification upon which JavaScript …
Jul 12, 2017
C Brown
What is Headless Drupal?
speckyboy.com - Mike Lander
The goal of this article is to break down what “headless Drupal” (or “fully decoupled Drupal”) is, and what it means for your business.In short, the …
Jul 6, 2017
C Brown
How to Use Google Analytics to Improve Your Web Design Projects
shopify.com
You’re aware there’s competition out there. And you know the key to success is differentiating yourself from your peers in order to stand out and win …
Jun 13, 2017
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How to use Flexbox to create a modern CSS card design layout
getflywheel.com
Thanks to Flexbox, a new layout mode in CSS3, we can get all of our cards in a row, literally. Card designs have grown in popularity over the past …
Feb 21, 2017
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The Basics of DOM Manipulation in Vanilla JavaScript (No jQuery)
sitepoint.com - Sebastian Seitz
Whenever we need to perform DOM manipulation, we're all quick to reach for jQuery. However, the vanilla JavaScrpt DOM API is actually quite capable …
Mar 28, 2017
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Let’s Build a Web App with Vue, and an API Part II
dev.to - Jakub Juszczak
In case you missed the first part, you can find it here. First of all, wow! Thanks for all the feedback and twitter messages! ðŸ’ I never imagined …
Apr 30, 2017
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UX Design
Airbnb’s new open source library lets you design with React and render to Sketch
TechCrunch - John Mannes
Today, Airbnb’s design team open sourced its internal library for writing React components that easily render directly to Sketch. Instead of trying to get Sketch to export to code, the Airbnb team spent
Apr 25, 2017
C Brown
Jekyll For Wordpress Developers — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com
Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’ picks 2× a month — delivered right into your inbox. Earlier issues. Jekyll is gaining popularity as a …
Apr 21, 2017
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JavaScript
Facebook turned a JavaScript framework into a VR creation tool
The Verge - Paul Miller
Facebook launched React VR today, an open source JavaScript framework for building VR experiences that was announced back in October. It's based on React, which is the user interface code that powers like
Apr 18, 2017
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Material Design
New Google tool helps developers pick the right colors for their apps – TechCrunch
TechCrunch - Frederic Lardinois
With its Material Design guidelines, Google set out to create a unified set of ideas for how it wants developers to think about all the different aspects of their applications’ design, ranging from the
Apr 6, 2017
C Brown
How we built Twitter Lite
twitter.com
We’re excited to introduce you to Twitter Lite, a Progressive Web App that is available at mobile.twitter.com. Twitter Lite is fast and responsive, …
Apr 6, 2017
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Smashing Magazine just got 10x faster | Netlify
www.netlify.com - Written by Chris Bach Published in Opinions & Insights on March 16, 2017
Smashing Magazine has always been a platform developers trust. They provide a place to go to find the best practices for web development. We’ve long …
Mar 16, 2017
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Common Async/Await Design Patterns in
thecodebarbarian.com - by Valeri Karpov
Async/await in Node.js opens up a host of powerful design patterns. Tasks that used to take complex libraries or intricate promise chaining can now …
Mar 15, 2017
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colynb/vuejs-notes-demo
github.com - colynb
(Thanks to Alex Garrett @alexgarrett from Codecourse.com for his walkthru) For detailed explanation on how things work, checkout the guide and docs …
Mar 11, 2017
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Google's new reCAPTCHA system is so smart, you won't even know it's there
TechSpot - Rob Thubron
During the time you’ve spent as a denizen of the internet, you’ll have doubtlessly come across plenty of Completely Automated Public Turing tests to …
Mar 10, 2017
C Brown
How To Schedule Posts for Static Site Generators (Jekyll, Hugo, Phenomic etc.)
serverless.com
Like many static sites we use Markdown + GitHub for all of our blog content. Having content under version control comes with some great benefits: It's …
Mar 7, 2017
C Brown
Turns out, making 200 http requests in sequence is slower than making them at the same time. Who knew.
Benchmarking Codswallop: NodeJS v PHP
philsturgeon.uk - Blog Logo
Nov 12, 2013
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Creating Non-Rectangular Headers | CSS-Tricks
css-tricks.com
Over at Medium, Jon Moore recently identified “non-rectangular headers” as a tiny trend. A la: it’s not crazy popular yet, but just you wait, …
Feb 14, 2017
C Brown
Interneting Is Hard
internetingishard.com
Learning to code shouldn’t be hard. We’re making it easier by putting together a comprehensive set of web development tutorials to help transform …
Feb 10, 2017
C Brown
Houdini: Maybe The Most Exciting Development In CSS You’ve Never Heard Of — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com
Every second Tuesday, we send a newsletter with useful techniques on front-end and UX. Subscribe and get Smart Interface Design Checklists PDF in your …
Mar 24, 2016
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The 10 Best Web Development YouTube Channels
The Balance - Laurence Bradford
YouTube makes it pretty easy to waste time. Hours can slip by as you watch skits or snicker at cat videos. However, the site also offers some great …
Aug 28, 2015
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Skills certification coming for developers
infoworld.com - Paul Krill is an editor at large at InfoWorld, whose coverage focuses on application development.
The IT industry has long used professional certifications to verify proficiency in technologies from companies like Microsoft and Novell. Now, …
Jan 27, 2017
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JavaScript Clean Coding Best Practices - at Scale
risingstack.com - Andras Toth
Writing clean code is what you must know and do in order to call yourself a professional developer. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything …
Dec 13, 2016
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Hacker Noon
hackernoon.com
Oct 24, 2016
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Why we chose
gitlab.com - Jacob Schatz
I had a great conversation with an interviewee a few weeks ago about how one should go about choosing a JavaScript framework. He pointed out that when …
Oct 20, 2016
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Vue 2.0 is Here!
Medium - Evan You
The rendering layer has been rewritten using a light-weight Virtual DOM implementation forked from snabbdom. On top of that, Vue’s template compiler …
Sep 30, 2016