#388 — April 24, 2019 |
🚀 Frontend Focus |
Optimizing Frontend Performance with Resource Hints — Resource Hints are a simple and effective way for devs to help the browser stay one step ahead of the user and keep pages fast. Here’s a look at how to optimize your site with such techniques. (Harry Roberts recently shared this related slidedeck.) Drew M |
Creating an Aspect Ratio CSS Utility — As the native Andy Bell |
Get the Fastest Website Deployments. Get Started Free — Unlike most Continuous Integration (CI) solutions, Buddy only re-builds the parts of your application that have changed and deploys your updates in seconds to any cloud. Start building better React apps faster with Buddy. Buddy sponsor |
Inclusively Hidden — A detailed look at the various ways in which you can hide content, with a particular focus on keeping things accessible. Scott O'Hara |
Hertz Suing for $32M over a Site 'Redesign From Hell' — “Among the most mind-boggling allegations in Hertz’s filed complaint is that Accenture didn’t incorporate a responsive design..” What sort of Web design could you put together for $32M? :-) The Register |
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💻 Jobs |
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📘 Tutorials & Opinion |
Why We Focus On Frontend Performance — Performance is “an integral part of the service” offered by the UK government website. Here’s a look at both the why and how behind their optimisation process. Matt Hobbs |
Controlling Leftover Grid Items with pseudo-selectors — How you may want to deal with leftover grid ‘widow’ items that don’t fill an entire row. Michelle Barker |
A Much Faster Way to Debug Code Than with Breakpoints or console.log — Wallaby catches errors in your tests and code and displays them right in your editor as you type, making your development feedback loop more productive. Wallaby.js sponsor |
Understanding WebViews — A good overview of what a WebView is (essentially a native component that lets you render Web-based content within another app), what they’re used for and some of their limitations. Kirupa Chinnathambi |
Animation Performance 101: Measuring with Dev Tools — How to analyze animation performance in the browser with Chrome Dev Tools. Chloe Hwang |
Diagonal Containers in CSS — How to create full-width, diagonal sections in CSS using the clip-path property. Sebastiano Guerriero |
Fading Out Siblings On Hover in CSS — A tiny trick for making your hover states stand out. Trys Mudford |
Studio 3T Makes SQL Migration to MongoDB, Powerfully Simple Studio 3T sponsor |
How to Inline An SVG File in HTML, Declaratively & Asynchronously Scott Jehl |
Implementing A Pin-to-Bottom Scrolling Element with Only CSS Ryan Hunt |
🔧 Code and Tools |
React95: Windows 95-Style UI Components for React — The Windows 95 era UI continues to be held up as one of Windows’ finest moments, so... why not ;-) Artur Bień |
Color Accessibility: Tools and Resources to Help You Design Inclusive Products Stéphanie Walter |
Design, Build, Debug and Test Your Web Apps Faster with Ext JS SENCHA, INC sponsor |
A Simple Popover Card View — ..with media content. Created using CSS and JavaScript. Mert Cukuren |
OverlayScrollbars: A JavaScript Scrollbar Plugin That Replaces Native Scrollbars — Gives you the opportunity to provides custom styleable overlay scrollbars while keeping a native functionality and feel. Rene Haas |
Can I Stop? A Tool to Help You Decide If You Can Drop IE 11 Support In Different Regions Mehdi M |
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