Mavo is a new tool to help create web applications. It turns static HTML into reactive web apps without a single line of code or a backend. Get the beta here.
Lea Verou
An exploration of best practices for loading CSS in the browser and how to achieve a ‘meaningful’ paint within 1000ms.
Patrick Hamann
Lin Clark explains what exactly WebAssembly is, and what makes it fast.
Smashing Magazine
Viacom did it. CES did it. TNW did it. Global winner of WIX SEO Hero challenge did it. Tech startups are doing it, and so are tech influencers. What about you?
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A look at why a team chose to build their app without a front-end framework, and what the pros and cons of a framework-free back-end are.
Nick Gauthier
WebKit now supports the prefers-reduced-motion media feature. Here, James Craig from the WebKit team runs through a few demos of how the feature is intended to work.
WebKit
A look at “how we got to having more web fonts than we can shake a stick at”.
Chen Hui Jing
Version 2.0 of Polymer has landed, with support for ES6 class-based syntax.
Wendy Ginsberg
How to use Chrome Devtools to identify paint bottlenecks. 3 minutes.
Sam Saccone
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Orientation Sensor First Public Working Draft news The Orientation Sensor API provides information on a device’s physical orientation. W3C
SitePoint's 'Ultimate CSS Survey 2017' Seeking Responses news SitePoint
ForwardJS Tickets on sale today news Attend full-day hands-on React workshops and dozens of talks at ForwardJS San Francisco this July. ForwardJS Sponsor
A Journey to Highly Effective and Maintainable CSS Media Queries tutorial Writing CSS Media Queries is easy, but Kaloyan argues that writing them in a maintainable and highly effective manner is not. Kaloyan Kosev
Best Practices for Chrome Push Notifications Permissions UX tutorial Owen Campbell-Moore
The Beginner’s Guide to the Web Storage API tutorial Swathi Prasad
A Walkthrough of CSS Length Units You Can Use for Font Size tutorial Sitepoint
Microsoft Edge: What’s New/Next for The Web & Web Apps On Windows video A quick tour of what’s new in Microsoft Edge and the Windows web platform. Channel 9
Modern Front-end Web Development in Visual Studio 2017 video A detailed tour of new features. Channel 9
CSS Grid with Rachel Andrew and Jen Simmons podcast Two CSS Grid experts help navigate what Grid is, when you can use it and how flexbox and grid play together. ShopTalk
Add Powerful UI Components to your React Apps with ExtReact tools Learn how to build data-intensive, cross-platform webapps leveraging 115+ Sencha components and React. Sencha, Inc. Sponsor
SVGito: Little Optimizations for SVGs tools A web-app with new optimizations for your SVG files—especially those exported from Sketch. Peter Nowell
Sizzy: A Tool for Developing Responsive Websites Crazy-fast tools Allows for multiple device previews on one screen. Associated blog post here. Kitze
Google's Material Design Color Tool tools Measure the accessibility of color combinations with this handy UI tool. Google
mini.css: Minimal, Responsive, Style-Agnostic CSS Framework code mini.css is a CSS framework designed to be lightweight, responsive and style-agnostic. Angelos Chalaris
Tinyreset: Tiny CSS Reset for The Modern Web code
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