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Push Notifications, WebXR, and Better PWA Support Coming to iOS — Notable changes to the web platform on iOS are on the way, including icon support in the manifest, Web Push, AR, and VR experiments — as Max explains in excellent detail here. Tangentially, here's Apple’s release notes for the latest Safari beta. Maximiliano Firtman |
Memory Leaks: The Forgotten Side of Web Performance — An even-handed take on the importance of memory leaks, even though the “effort-to-payoff ratio” is often seen as “disappointingly high”. Nolan Lawson |
Take Part in the Biggest Research Survey for Frontend Devs — The State of Frontend 2022 survey is here for you to power through some exciting questions. Help the frontend community see the big picture - we got 4500 participants in 2020, so let’s make this bigger. The Software House sponsor |
What Web Frameworks Solve and How To Do Without Them — Dives deep into a few technical features that are common across frameworks, and explains how some of the different frameworks implement them and what they cost. Noam Rosenthal |
A Complete Beginner's Guide to Josh Collinsworth |
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📙 Tutorials, Articles & Opinion |
▶ How Does Una Kravets |
The Baseline for Web Development in 2022? — Analysis of numerous stats around frontend technologies, browser share, and more to establish a feel for what the lowest common denominators are in terms of what we must support. Alan Dávalos |
Visualize Real-Time Data with InfluxDB — How to use the React-based Giraffe visualization library to gain meaningful insights from streaming data. InfluxData sponsor |
WebAssembly Feature Detection — A look at how to use the newest WebAssembly features while supporting users across all browsers. In this related piece, Harshal Sheth talks about how the tech is now at an "inflection point" — with adoption expected to balloon over the next few years. Ingvar Stepanyan |
Use Cases For CSS Ahmad Shadeed |
Background Shift Animation with CSS Blend Modes — Here’s how to achieve a neat background color shift transition effect using CSS Blend Modes and a multi-layer animation. Demo here. Mary Lou |
Fluid Type Sizes and Spacing — Developer Piper shares why they use a fluid type and spacing system and how you may want to approach a similar type set up. Piper Haywood |
How to Keep Up with Web Development Without Falling Into Despair
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'Most Websites Are Implicitly Designed with A Short Lifetime'
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Six Things to Consider Before Changing Fonts on a Site
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🔧 Code, Tools & Resources |
OpenMoji: Open Source Emojis for Designers and Developers — Currently includes ~4,000 handcrafted emojis that all follow a consistent style, searchable by keyword or category. OpenMoji |
Gradient Generator: Create CSS, SVG and PNG Color Gradients — Gradient generators are a dime-a-dozen, but this one has some useful features: Includes conic gradients, gradient layering, and automatically adds colors to prevent loss of saturation. Doodad |
Doppler - All Your Environment Variables in One Place Doppler sponsor |
Open Props: Supercharged CSS Variables — These are essentially small plug-and-play components made up of predefined CSS variables that you can use to build your own design systems, components, or use alongside other frameworks. Adam Argyle |
Runno: A Browser-Based Code Runner That Can Be Embedded As An IFrame or Used as a Library — The browser-based version, which is similar to tools like JSFiddle and CodePen, includes runtimes for JS, Python, SQL, C, and C++. Ben Taylor |
Announcing PWA Studio, The VS Code Extension for Building Progressive Web Apps
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