#362 — October 17, 2018 |
Frontend Focus |
Rhythm in Web Typography — Horizontal rhythm mostly impacts the legibility, while vertical rhythm impacts the readability of the text and establishes a sense of visual hierarchy. Matej Latin |
Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers — More browsers than ever are releasing frequent updates and supporting modern standards, so with code size rising fast, is it time to rethink asset delivery for the modern web? Shubham Kanodia |
Functional Programming with JavaScript. Did You Get the Cheat Sheet? — JavaScript developers, here’s a handy resource for your reference stack. Download this handy resource containing short definitions, tips, code examples of arrow functions and more. Get your copy. Progress Kendo UI sponsor |
What’s New in the Latest Microsoft Edge Update — EdgeHTML 18 is now available with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, featuring Web Authentication API support, Service Worker improvements, new WebView features, CSS Masking, new autoplay policies, and more. Kyle Pflug (Microsoft) |
Why Don't We Add A Bruce Lawson |
Chrome 70 Release: What's New for Developers? — Chrome 70 brings support for desktop-based progressive web apps (PWAs) on Windows, Web Bluetooth support on Windows 10, support for public key credentials in the Credential Management API, and named Web Workers. The DevTools also have numerous improvements. Google Developers |
An Introduction to Houdini's Animation Worklet — In future, you might not need to worry about Surma (Google) |
💻 Jobs |
Work on Uber's Open Source Design Language — We're developing Base UI, a new React component library for web applications at Uber and beyond. Join our team. Uber |
Join Our Career Marketplace & Get Matched With A Job You Love — Through Hired, software engineers have transparency into salary offers, competing opportunities, and job details. Hired |
📘 Tutorials |
The MDN CSS Layout Cookbook — Now with seven handy ‘recipes’ for implementing things like breadcrumb navigation, centering an element, and sticky footers with modern Web techniques. MDN Web Docs |
CSS Animations with Finite State Machines — An explanation of state machines based around their relevance to CSS. David Khourshid |
How to Stop using console.log() and Start using Your Browser’s Debugger Parag Zaveri |
HTML for Numeric ZIP Code Inputs — Take care, because ZIP codes aren’t exactly ‘numbers’ in the traditional sense. Chris Coyier |
Lazy Loading Images with Vue.js Directives and Intersection Observer Mateusz Rybczonek |
Create a Serverless Powered API in 10 Minutes — Use Cloudflare Workers to create and deploy a serverless API to 150+ data centers. Cloudflare Workers sponsor |
Calls Between JavaScript and WebAssembly Are Finally Fast — The interoperability between JS and WebAssembly has been a sticking point for performance, but this is changing. Here’s an amazingly accessible writeup of the how and why. Lin Clark |
▶ Two Live Accessibility And Performance Audits from SmashingConf — Two talks from Marcy Sutton and Tim Kadlec focusing on assessing real sites/code. Smashing Magazine |
Valid CSS Content — What’s valid content in CSS’s Chris Coyier |
🔧 Code and Tools |
The Webflow CSS Grid Playground — Build grid layouts visually with this powerful Web-based tool. (Note: An account is needed to export code.) Webflow |
Muze: Build Composable Data Visualizations for the Web — Composable, can be themed with CSS, supports dynamic binding for tooltips and other ‘reactions’, stackable layouts.. Charts.com |
Build Real-Time Web Experiences with a Simple but Powerful Serverless Backend Microsoft sponsor |
An Experiment to Use QR Codes for WebRTC Signalling Data Gorka Ludlow |
Some Neat Pure CSS Toggle Buttons Himalaya Singh |
Adidas Rolls Out Mini-Site Inspired by 1990s Web Design — They’ve done a pretty good job with this fun site for some 1990s-influenced sneakers. Adidas |
Recreating the Banksy Artwork Shredder in CSS — A fun little demo, with an associated write-up here. Lee Martin |
Find, Organize, and Connect the Best Cloud Services Manifold sponsor |