Tag: Css
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Relearn CSS layout
Posted on June 17, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
Heydon Pickering & Andy Bell published series of articles on their blog focusing on CSS layout.
Tags css frontend browsers web-development
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How to remove unused CSS from your website
Posted on May 30, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Dan Englishby describing how to go about clearing CSS files. A cascading style sheet can gradually build up into a bulky file over time. This means two things, your CSS file is messy, and it's unnecessarily bigger.
Tags how-to css programming performance
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Inside look at modern web browser
Posted on April 22, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
In this article from Mariko Kosaka she walks you though insides of the Chrome browser from high-level architecture to the specifics of the rendering pipeline. If you ever wondered how the browser turns your code into a functional website, or you are unsure why a specific technique is suggested for performance improvements, then the article and next 3 ones in this series is for you.
Tags web-development css frontend ux browsers
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JavaScript-Free Frontend
Posted on March 12, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by Matt Reyer from Slimvoice -- a webapp without JavaScript is a series where he documents how he rebuilt his app, Slimvoice, using as little JavaScript as possible. He's tried to present JavaScript alternatives and encourage those who reach for a SPA for every project to give it a second thought.
Tags miscellaneous programming learning javascript frontend css
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The power of web components
Posted on November 25, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Post by Potch html5 developer and web platform advocate from Mozilla about re-usable code. He writes about handful of web standards. Each standard has some independent utility, but when used together, they enable something that was previously impossible to do natively. The capability to create user-defined HTML elements that can go in all the same places as traditional HTML.
Tags web-development css frontend programming
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The McKinsey report on design
Posted on November 24, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Blog post by Emily Esposito for InVision in which she asked: how can you confidently prove the business value of good design?. McKinsey & Company was trying to change that with their October 2018 report highlighting "the most extensive and rigorous research undertaken anywhere to study the design actions that leaders can make to unlock business value."
Tags web-development css frontend ux browsers
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Understanding the difference between grid-template and grid-auto
Posted on October 23, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Dawid Kunicki article about working with Flutter and getting out first app written in it. Taken from Android developer perspective. Flutter is a new technology that is clearly gaining more and more popularity among mobile developers.
Tags web-development ux css browsers
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CSS debugging and optimization: browser-based developer tools
Posted on October 9, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Tiffany Brown article in which she delves into the browser-based developer tools for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. This article is very helpful for anybody on road to become a CSS master.
Tags css frontend nodejs web-development
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8 best practices for perfect CSS documentation
Posted on July 29, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Adriana De La Cuadra article about best pracices for CSS documentation. In the world of CSS, documentation is underused. Since documentation is not visible to the end user, its value is often overlooked by clients.
Tags css frontend web-development miscellaneous
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Image Effects with CSS
Posted on October 11, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Bennett Feely nice write-up on using one or more newer CSS properties (background-blend-mode, mix-blend-mode, or filter) and how it gives us a surprising amount of possibilities to manipulate a single source image.
Tags css programming web-development
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Resource Hints - What is Preload, Prefetch, and Preconnect?
Posted on January 30, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Brian Jackson good article xploring current resource hints and directives which can be another great way to boost the performance on your website or web application.
Tags performance css frontend web-development miscellaneous