The Front-End Performance Checklist — An extensive list of things you should check or at least be aware of as a front-end developer trying to make your sites work as fast as possible.

David Dias

Using Feature Detection to Write CSS with Cross-Browser Support — If you’ve been subscribed for a while, you’ll have seen all manner of CSS modules - both established and experimental - mentioned here. Here’s how to use the modules you want in a progressively enhanced way across browsers by using feature detection.

Schalk Venter

monday.com - Collaborate, Plan, Track & Manage All in One Tool — What’s it all about? Well, monday.com is about managing your workload professionally, planning ahead visually and communicating with the team. Once these points are set, have your champagne to celebrate the success of your team brand.

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Best Practices for Mobile Form Design — A key goal as a Web developer is to make the process of filling out a form as easy as possible. This article shares a lot of practical techniques for designing effective mobile forms.

Smashing Magazine

Babel 7 Released: The JavaScript Transpiler — We’re going to focus on this more in this week’s JavaScript Weekly on Friday.

Henry Zhu

Super-Powered Grid Components with CSS Custom Properties — A walkthrough of building a text and image component that uses CSS Grid along with CSS variables for placement.

Michelle Barker

Senior Front End Engineer at External Data Systems, Netflix — Help build a world class user interface for the platform that collects data to drive business insights for our teams.

Netflix

Find A FrontEnd Job Through Vettery — Create a profile to connect with inspiring companies seeking FrontEnd devs.

Vettery

Using CSS Clip Path to Create Interactive Effects, Part II — A follow up to a January article on creating collage-style Web effects with CSS which leans on SVG to make things work in current browsers.

Mikael Ainalem

Create a Serverless Powered API in 10 Minutes — Use Cloudflare Workers to create and deploy a serverless API to 150+ data centers.

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Getting Started with Service Workers — A basic introduction to using Service Workers in the context of a Progressive Web App.

Flavio Copes

Inspect and Style an Element in DevTools that Normally Disappears when Inactive

Elijah Manor

A Native Lazy Load for the Web Platform — A new Chrome feature, ‘Blink LazyLoad’, was designed to dramatically improve performance by deferring the load of below-the-fold images and third-party IFRAMEs.

Ben Schwarz

Service Worker Caching Strategies Based on Request Types

Thomas Steiner

::before vs :before — Pseudo elements vs pseudo selectors.

Chris Coyier

Extending the Browser with WebAssembly — WebAssembly opens up more options to extend the browser with new features. This article shows how to port the AV1 video decoder and play AV1 video in any modern browser.

Alex Danilo (Google Developers)

Don't Miss SIGNAL: Twilio Customer & Developer Conference - Oct 17 & 18

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SVG Icon Transition Generator Tool — Upload two SVG icons of the same size and get a new SVG which transitions between them on click or hover.

Nucleo

Puppeteer Recorder: A Chrome Extension That Turns Browser Interactions into Puppeteer Scripts

Checkly

F2: A Flexible Charting Library Aimed at Mobile Devices — An HTML5 canvas-based charting library aimed specifically at mobile use cases.

Sima

size-plugin: Track Compressed Webpack Asset Sizes Over Time

Google Chrome Labs

Ghost 2.0: The JavaScript Blogging Platform — A popular Node.js and JavaScript-based blogging platform - a good alternative to WordPress.

John O'Nolan

goodshare.js: A Vue.js Component for Social Sharing Buttons — Full example here.

Vic Shóstak

LazyestLoad.js: Load Images Only When In (and Remain In) the Viewport

Paul Browne

Developer Tools for Every Customer Session – New in FullStory

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The 'Carlton Dance' in Pure CSS — If you remember The Fresh Prince of Bel Air you won’t have forgotten this.

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