Not An Imposter: Fighting Front-End Fatigue

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No meows just yet

November 17, 2016 — I recently spoke with a back-end developer friend about how many hours I spend coding or learning about code outside of work. He showed me a passage from an Uncle Bob book, “Clean Code”, ... Read More…

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David Catuhe wrote

Building Shaders With Babylon.js

November 1, 2016 — Shaders are a key concept if you want to unleash the raw power of your GPU. I will help you understand how they work and even experiment with their inner power in an easy way, thanks to Babylon.js. Before experimenting, we must see how things work internally. When dealing … Read More…

Liam Bush wrote

Building “Topple Trump”, An Interactive Web-Based Quiz Game (Case Study)

October 2, 2016 — Editor’s Note: When it comes to elections, we are each given a choice in how to express our opinions and beliefs. Some designers and developers use their skills to further articulate their choice in one person. Here’s a glimpse into how Topple Trump!, an interactive … Read More…

Ada Rose Edwards wrote

The Building Blocks Of Progressive Web Apps

September 5, 2016 — The common wisdom for most companies that set out to build an app is to build a native Android or iOS app, as well as a supporting website. Although there are some good reasons for that, not enough people know about the major advantages of web apps. Web apps can replace all … Read More…

Nash Vail wrote

Upgrading CSS Animation With Motion Curves

August 25, 2016 — There is UI animation, and then there is good UI animation. Good animation makes you go “Wow!” — it’s smooth, beautiful and, most of all, natural, not blocky, rigid or robotic. If you frequent Dribbble or UpLabs, you’ll know what I am talking about. With so many amazing … Read More…

Alex Bachuk wrote

Redux · An Introduction

June 28, 2016 — Redux is one of the hottest libraries in front-end development these days. However, many people are confused about what it is and what its benefits are. As the documentation states, Redux is a predictable state container for JavaScript apps. To rephrase that, it’s an … Read More…

Aleks Hudochenkov wrote

Stylelint: The Style Sheet Linter We've Always Wanted

May 25, 2016 — Everyone wants a clean, consistent code base, no matter the language. Developers are accustomed to setting up linters in programming languages such as JavaScript and Python, but they rarely use a linter for style sheets. In this article, we’ll look at stylelint, a linter for … Read More…

Charles Morris wrote

Looking Back: One Year Of Microsoft Edge (Videos)

May 19, 2016 — Change is difficult in large corporations. But sometimes it is possible. In fact, we published Inside Microsoft’s New Rendering Engine For The “Project Spartan” when the new browser was just announced. A year has passed since then. We kindly thank Microsoft for keeping … Read More…

Daniel Demmel wrote

Why You Should Stop Installing Your WebDev Environment Locally

April 20, 2016 — Have you heard of Docker but thought that it’s only for system administrators and other Linux geeks? Or have you looked into it and felt a bit intimidated by the jargon? Or are you silently suffering with a messy development environment that seems to break all of the time in … Read More…

Philip Walton wrote

Houdini: Maybe The Most Exciting Development In CSS You've Never Heard Of

March 24, 2016 — Have you ever wanted to use a particular CSS feature but didn’t because it wasn’t fully supported in all browsers? Or, worse, it was supported in all browsers, but the support was buggy, inconsistent or even completely incompatible? If this has happened to you — and I’m … Read More…