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The Difference Between Web Sockets, Web Workers, and Service Workers
3.11.2022
Web Sockets, Web Workers, Service Workers… these are terms you may have read or overheard. Maybe not all of them, but likely at least one of them. And even if you have a good handle on front-end development, there’s a …
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Is There Too Much CSS Now?
24.10.2022
As front-end developers, we’ve wished for a lot of things over the years — ways to center things in CSS, encapsulate styles, set an element’s aspect ratio, get finer-grained control over our colors, select an element based on its children’s …
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Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Front End
11.10.2022
There’ve been some new tutorials popping here on CSS-Tricks for working with WordPress blocks. One of them is an introduction to WordPress block development and it’s a good place to learn what blocks are and to register them in WordPress …
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Flutter For Front-End Web Developers
5.9.2022
I started as a front-end web developer and then became a Flutter developer. I think there were some concepts that helped me adopt Flutter easier. There were also some new concepts that were different.
In this article, I want to …
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Two Polygon, Fantom Front-Ends Hit by DNS Attack
1.7.2022
Two gateways provided by Ankr were exploited this morning
Eurosystem Seeks Providers of Prototype Payment Solutions for Digital Euro
1.5.2022
Eurozone’s monetary authority, the Eurosystem, is looking to enlist financial companies willing to develop front-end solutions for the digital euro. The plan is to carry out a “prototyping exercise” this year to test transactions to the back-end developed by the regulator....
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Nested Components in a Design System
26.4.2022
When creating a component-based, front-end infrastructure, one of the biggest pain points I’ve personally encountered is making components that are both reusable and responsive when there are nested components within components.
Take the following “call to action” (<CTA />…
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Writing Strong Front-end Test Element Locators
22.4.2022
Automated front-end tests are awesome. We can write a test with code to visit a page — or load up just a single component — and have that test code click on things or type text like a user would, …
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Collective #708
21.4.2022
JavascriptDB * The Future of CSS: CSS Toggles * Loaders * The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal
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Adding Tailwind CSS to New and Existing WordPress Themes
20.4.2022
In the 15 or so years since I started making WordPress websites, nothing has had more of an impact on my productivity — and my ability to enjoy front-end development — than adding Tailwind CSS to my workflow (and it …
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Comparing Node JavaScript to JavaScript in the Browser
18.2.2022
Being able to understand Node continues to be an important skill if you’re a front-end developer. Deno has arrived as another way to run JavaScript outside the browser, but the huge ecosystem of tools and software built with Node mean …
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(Jay Freestone’s) Front-End Predictions for 2022
18.2.2022
I linked to Jay’s front-end predictions last year and I think they panned out pretty well. I think he’s got a bit of a knack for that wide-scope look at front-end, including tooling and architecture, as well as browser tech. …
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The Relevance of TypeScript in 2022
31.1.2022
It’s 2022. And the current relevance of TypeScript is undisputed. TypeScript has dominated the front-end developer experience by many, many accounts. By now you likely already know that TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, building on JavaScript by adding …
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Why Don’t Developers Take Accessibility Seriously?
24.1.2022
You know that joke, “Two front-end developers walk into a bar and find they have nothing in common”? It’s funny, yet frustrating, because it’s true.
This article will present three different perspectives on accessibility in web design and development. Three …
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What the Heck Does “npm” Mean?
20.1.2022
One of the things that makes this new, tooling-heavy era of front-end development so seemingly hard to understand at first is that, while we often call things by a singular name, they tend to be actually comprised of several different …
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What Were the Hottest Front-End Tools in 2021?
17.1.2022
Another year has passed and once again I’ve had the privilege of going through the Web Tools Weekly newsletter archives from the past 12 months to hunt down the front-end tools that readers found to be the most interesting during …
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Ship a Full-Stack App in Days with AWS Amplify Studio
13.12.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
Amazon has a vision with AWS Amplify. First, a premise:
As browsers have become faster and more powerful over the last decade, front-end developers are building web apps that are more feature-rich and …
Some notes on using esbuild
9.12.2021
This is a fantastic article from Julia Evans about duking it out with modern front-end tooling. Julia has made a bunch of Vue projects and typically uses no build process at all:
 I usually have an index.html file, a script.js…
Jetpack Licensing for Agencies and Professionals
7.12.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
I’ve built WordPress websites for I don’t know how long now, but suffice to say I’ve relied on it for a bulk of the work I do as a freelance front-ender. And in that …
The Gap (Design Engineering)
17.11.2021
Egor Kloos describes a situation where a (purely visual) designer asks for some changes to a component. There is a misunderstanding where the (code monkey) developer implements the change exactly as requested—but really what was required was both a bug …
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