Is it really safe to start using CSS Grid Layout?

What it means to build for the web.

Project Guidelines

A set of best practices for JavaScript projects.

Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018

They can secure any number of subdomains free of charge.

Should I implement AMP?

5 meaningless, not proven or misleading assumptions that may lead you to the wrong decision.

I decided to disable AMP on my site

Experiences with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages.

The Options for Programmatically Documenting CSS

Comparison of the most popular tools.

Introducing code owners

GitHub now lets you auto-request reviews from code owners.

Gatsby

Blazing-fast static site generator for React.

How to defend your website with ZIP bombs

What you can do about web vulnerability scanners.

Your Site - Any Site - Should be a PWA

What are you waiting for?

sqlify

Convert any CSV or JSON file to a SQL, JSON or CSV file.

“Reminder: The ‘C’ in ‘CSS’ stands for ‘Cascade’. It’s a feature. Not a bug.”

Upcoming Regular Expression Features

Making regular expressions even more powerful.

Life Is About to Get a Whole Lot Harder for Websites Without HTTPS

The rapid march towards a ‘secure by default’ web.

Ubuntu now available from the Windows Store!

SUSE and Fedora will also be ready soon.

Introducing npx: an npm package runner

The new tool is part of the npm 5.2.0 release.

Security updates for all active release lines, July 2017

Node.js users should upgrade as soon as possible.

Does my site need HTTPS?

Short answer: yes, your site needs HTTPS.

Let’s Talk About Speech CSS

CSS speech’s history, limitations, and potential.

reproCSS

A CSS reprocessor using ‘style’ tags.

Stop Using Resets

“CSS resets, as well as normalizers, are quite practically useless.”

Sass 3.5 is Released

Lots of CSS compatibility stuff, and a few new goodies.

PWA Directory: Loading content faster in the Application Shell

How it works.

Methods to Organize CSS

Approaches to writing scalable and maintainable CSS.

JavaScript really is overtaking the world

Let’s recap what the three front end technologies are.

Implementing Webmentions

The web standard for mentions and conversations across the web.

“My favorite part of programming is when you sit completely still, in total silence, with your head in your hands, trying to remember math.”

Preview Storage API in Firefox Nightly

The feature is now ready for testing.

Transmit 5

The popular FTP client is now faster, sleeker, and connects to more cloud services.

Facets: An Open Source Visualization Tool for Machine Learning Training Data

What it is and how it works.

CSS

“Using CSS at scale has a learning curve, just like any powerful technology.”

Service Worker gotchas

Everything you need to know about implementing Service Worker.

Bash-Snippets

A collection of small bash scripts for heavy terminal users.

Binary AST proposal for ECMAScript

A new over-the-wire format for JavaScript to speed up code parsing.

“Idea: reality show titled ‘Keeping up with the JavaScripts’. Featuring lots of developers having identity crisis, flipping tables, etc.”

Firefox marketshare revisited

“Google is aggressively using its monopoly position to advertise Chrome.”

Experimenting with the background fetch API

It’s going to be useful for VR, video and audio applications.

Container queries

“I’d love to see some movement on container queries.”

Ten Things A Serious JavaScript Developer Should Learn

What you need to know and understand.

“I find writing to be one of the most physically exhausting forms of creativity.”

So you want to decentralize your website

How a Dat website works.

You're Offline

Ways to improve the user experience of your website when viewed offline.

Why display: contents is not CSS Grid Layout subgrid

A look at the different use cases.

Enhancing CSS Layout: From Floats To Flexbox To Grid

Let’s get the best out of CSS Grid as soon as possible.

We now have a community-approved Progressive Web Apps logo!

How the unofficial PWA logo looks like.

Critical CSS and Webpack: Automatically Minimize Render-Blocking CSS

How to delegate critical CSS to your Webpack pipeline.

(Now More Than Ever) You Might Not Need jQuery

Some new vanilla alternatives to jQuery methods.

Animating with CSS Variables

How CSS variables can enhance your CSS animations.

Detect if your Native app is installed from your web site

Chrome comes with a new API.

Announcing Ghost 1.0

The open source blogging platform comes with a new editor and more.

Chromeless Playground

Headless Chrome right from your browser.

Windows Subsystem for Linux out of Beta!

It will soon become a fully supported Windows feature.

Node-ChakraCore Update: N-API, Node.js on iOS and more

Microsoft now lets you run Node.js on iOS.

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 36

What’s new for developers.

The JavaScript Way

A modern introduction to an essential language.

“JavaScript Fatigue happens when people use tools they don’t need to solve problems they don’t have.”

How to turn your website into a PWA

App-like user experiences thanks to modern web capabilities.

Shoelace

Highly customizable, back to the basics CSS starter kit.

Announcing Storybook 3.2

Component-based UI’s in React, React Native, and now Vue.

Import Cost

Visual Studio extension to display the package size of imports in the editor.

TensorFire

Neural networks in the browser using WebGL.

hyperHTML is killing it!

A new way to create fast dynamic web content.

The Critical Request

How to use resource priorities to make performance improvements.

Intersection Observer comes to Firefox

Let the browser know when an element’s visibility has changed.

Performance and Resilience: Stress-Testing Third Parties

Let’s find out how well we handle failures.

GridBugs

A curated list of CSS Grid Layout bugs.

Prodigy: A new tool for radically efficient machine teaching

How it works and what you can expect.

Workspaces in Yarn

Let’s simplify dependency management.

What the f*ck JavaScript?

A list of funny and tricky JavaScript examples.

“If you name your dog Sudo and she doesn’t follow commands, you can instantly tell who on the street are fellow nerds because of the giggling.”

Apple signals it's willing to let next-gen web apps compete with iOS apps

Service Workers land in WebKit.

Rendering on Google Search

Googlebot uses a web rendering service that is based on Chrome.

V8 Release 6.1

asm.js is now validated and compiled to WebAssembly.

7 Tools for Developing Your First Progressive Web App

It’s time to enable app-like features.

Hunting Malicious npm Packages

Why it’s important to be cautious when adding dependencies to projects.

Learn regex the easy way

A handbook to get started with regular expressions.

CSS Utility Classes and 'Separation of Concerns'

Maintainable code with Functional CSS.

Css Grid Highlighter for Chrome

How to use and install the extension.

Performance and Usage Implications of Custom Fonts

Let’s explore if they are worth the performance cost.

Bootstrap 4 Beta

What’s new in the popular front-end web framework.

ES Modules in Node Today!

Smooth transition between Node.js and ES module formats.

“Nothing makes me code faster than a man telling me something can’t be done.”

“Testers don’t break the code, they break your illusions about the code.”

deeplearn.js

A hardware-accelerated machine intelligence library for the web.

JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript

The evolution of the JavaScript ecosystem.

Font-size: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property

The complexity of font-size from a rendering engine point of view.

The Difference Between Explicit and Implicit Grids

Something you need to know when working with Grid Layout.

Shadow DOM: fast and encapsulated styles

What you can do when you need CSS encapsulation.

HyperApp

1 KB JavaScript library for building frontend applications.

Introducing embedded code snippets

GitHub now lets you reference code in issues.

Babel REPL

Interactive environment to write code in the latest version of JavaScript.

Performant Web Animations and Interactions: Achieving 60 FPS

Which components have to work together.

10 guidelines to improve your web accessibility

How to guarantee access to your site to any person,

Learning at work

Ways to improve coding skills without doing extra work.

Puppeteer

Headless Chrome Node API.

Transform

Generation of type definitions from a JSON response.

atom-import-cost

Check the size of the package you import, right in the Atom editor.

CSS Hex Colors Demystified

The hexadecimal representation in CSS property values explained.

Inside a super fast CSS engine: Quantum CSS (aka Stylo)

Mozilla’s project to make Firefox fast.

Android Oreo takes a bite out of Progressive Web Apps

Bad and good news regarding web development for Android 8.