Here's what I'd like you to know upfront: this is a hard problem. If you've landed here because you're hoping to be pointed at a tool you can run that tells you exactly what CSS you can delete from your project, well... there are tools out there, but I'm warning you to be very careful with them because none of them can ever tell you the complete story. Post written by Chris Coyer.
Slides is a Visual Studio Code extension that helps you use your editor as a presentation tool.
Listen to Kelly Vaughn, Ali Spittel, && Emma Wedekind debug the tech industry.
Build consistent, themeable React apps based on constraint-based design principles. Built for white-labels, themes, and other applications where customizing colors, typography, and layout are treated as first-class citizens and based on the System UI Theme.
Link your Mastodon account to Twitter and Instagram. No bamboozle. Created by James Moore.
Always wanted to use GraphQL for your new projects, but never got time to learn how it works? Let's start the week with some new GraphQL knowledge in hand! Here's a 10-minute GraphQL crash course for you! Post written by Xiaoru Li.
Koala is a GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation, to help web developers to use them more efficiently. Koala can run in windows, linux and mac.
Compile Sass, Less, Stylus, Jade, CoffeeScript on Mac, Windows & Linux with Live Browser Reload.
Parcel purports to be a “zero-config” alternative to Webpack, a popular Javascript module bundler. A module bundler takes separate, reusable JS files (or modules) and “bundles” them into a single file to be served to the browser, as well as minifying the output. This can improve website performance, as the browser doesn’t need to load a bunch of files individually. Post written by the author of "CSS in Real Life".
The Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL. The free and open-source tutorial to learn all around GraphQL to go from zero to production.
Finds publicly known security vulnerabilities in a website's frontend JavaScript libraries.
A biweekly 20-min podcast about the latest in tech tools, tips, and tricks!
In this post I will explore five options for handling form submissions with your static site. Post written by DJ Walker.
How the new release will affect the way we write our code. As you could expect, Vue 3 brings a lot of new exciting features. Thankfully Vue team mostly introduced additions and improvements over current APIs rather than major changes so people that already know Vue 2 should quickly feel comfortable with new syntaxes. Written by Filip Rakowski.
The command-line is awesome but building on it has been hard for web developers. Vorpal is a framework that makes it easy to build mature, immersive command-line applications in JavaScript.
When it comes to building a simple front-end project, how do you get started? What are the tools you need? I suspect everyone will have a different answer. Do you start with a (JS or CSS) framework, or off-the-shelf boilerplate? Perhaps you use a task runner (like Gulp to orchestrate your project’s needs. Or do you start simple, with just HTML and a CSS file? post written by Michelle Barker.
