Front End web development

I noted Trey Huffine’s 2018 version of this article in The Great Divide . To put a point on this divide a bit more, consider this article by Trey Huffine, "A Recap of Frontend Development in 2018." It's very well done! It points to big moments this year, shows interesting data, and makes predictions about what we might see next year. But it's entirely based around the JavaScript ecosystem. My point was (and still is) that front-end development is more than the JavaScript ecosystem. However, I certainly admit the movings-and-shakings of the JavaScript world is a big deal and probably generally more interesting to watch for most devs. What happened this year outside of JavaScript land? Well it's weird. Things move slower, so it's harder to pin things — even to years — quite as easily. For example, there was plenty of talk and usage of prefers-reduced-motion in CSS , but we kinda "got" that in 2017. Lots of people have gotten excited about var...

There are so, so, so (so) many things to read out there on the internet. So many, in fact, that it's difficult to keep up with everything. But, hey, we've got your back! It's our job to surface the best of the best and share it with you right here. That's why it's a good idea to subscribe to this site and newsletter . Why subscribe to hundreds of sites when you can follow one, right? Where do we find the links that we share? It truly runs the gamut, but we've decided to list our favorite sources. Chris Coyier Labnotes - Assaf Arkin's newsletter is great mishmash of timely, interesting, and funny tidbits with a developer twist. Code with Veni is new just this year and consistently has great links from underrepresented coders Codrops Collective always leaves me with like five open tabs I get quite a few weekly newsletters entirely about front-end development, like Friday Frontend WordPress Tavern does solid WordPress journalism. Shoutout to Dav...

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Having a "parent selector" in CSS is mentioned regularly as something CSS could really use. I feel like I've had that thought plenty of times myself, but then when I ask my brain for a use case, I find it hard to think of one. Well, I just had one so I thought I'd document it here. A classic parent/child: <div class="parent"> <div class="child"></div> </div> Say it makes a lot of sense for this parent to have hidden overflow and also for the child to use absolute positioning. .parent { overflow: hidden; position: relative; } .child { position: absolute; } Now let's say there's one special circumstance where the child needs to be positioned outside the parent and still be visible. Hidden overflow is still a good default for the vast majority of situations, so it's best to leave that rule in place, but in this very specific situation, we need to override that overflow. .special-child { positi...

Wufoo has always been great with integrations. They have integrations with specific apps, like Campaign Monitor, Mailchimp, and Typekit, but they also integrate with Zapier , which is sort of like an integration inside an integration. That's kinda meta, but the idea is actually pretty straightforward: Wufoo integrates with Zapier, which integrates with a gazillion (yes, I did the math) other apps. That opens up a whole world of possibilities for what you can do with a Wufoo form. Some interesting ones: Trigger an email to send to someone from Campaign Monitor or Mailchimp when they've submitted the form. Collect submissions in a Google Sheet to build you own database of entries. Automatically create a card in Trello once the form has been submitted. Add the person who is submitting the form to a contact list in Salesforce. Push notifications to Slack once someone completes the form. Wufoo shared their own list of ideas . Let's sum them up here: Wufoo + your cus...

2019 was thankfully lot different than last year. This time last year I was in the neuro ICU with my dad as he came out of a coma and was fighting off spinal meningitis. I’m so incredibly thankful he’s made a full recovery and is back to refereeing basketball and playing pickleball , which is so great. There’s a lot to reflect on and look back on over this last year, but first here’s 2019 by the numbers: 2019 by the numbers Wrote  35 posts  on my blog Shared only  52 links  on my site Traveled over 51,120 miles  to over  26 cities in 4 countries  on 2 continents Spoke  at  10 conferences  and gave 9 company and conference  workshops Consulted with 7 clients and helped them create and evolve their respective design systems Built 1 giant design system Worked on 2 side projects Had 1 office constructed in my back yard Processed 2,097 ebook orders  of  Atomic Design Raised $4,425 for various ch...

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