UI Dev Newsletter

State Of CSS 2020 Report

A quick overview of a few major CSS trends from the State Of CSS 2020 survey.

The Art of Building Real-life Components

Ahmad Shadeed describes in details how to recreate the Facebook Messenger's sidebar card and its versions.

What Can You Put in a CSS Variable?

Will Boyd shows different examples of CSS Variables usage.

Drawing Decorative Lines with CSS

Rik Schennink shows different ways how to create lines in CSS, including pseudo elements and SVG.

Lists

Jeremy Keith writes about listitis and accessible lists.

Case Study: lynnandtonic.com 2020 refresh

Lynn Fisher explains the process of the creation of new fancy features on the homepage.

So you wanna create an eco-friendly website

Eric Bailey tries to answer how you make a website or web app not-awful in ecology.

HTML CSS Easy steps to create a web template from scratch

Complete easy to follow guide to create your own web template using HTML and CSS Quick Crash course for beginners.

A font-display setting for slow connections

Matt Hobbs explains all about font loading and which font-display option to use for slower connections.

Is Safari the next Internet Explorer?

Danny Guo compares Safari browser with Internet Explorer in terms of web features and implementations.

Big Review of Major UI Design Trends for Web and Mobile in 2020

Marina Yalanska takes a look back at what was popular in UI/UX design for websites and mobile applications in 2020.

My stack will outlive yours

Steren Giannini explains why his stack requires no maintenance, has perfect Lighthouse scores, will never have any security vulnerability, and why it will outlive yours.

How to change border width on hover without affecting layout

Alex Carpenter figures out how to use box-shadow to mimic the border width hover effect.

Houdini.how

A community-driven gathering place for CSS Houdini worklets and resources.

2020: A round-up of all Codrops resources

A roundup of all Codrops resources of the year 2020.

ButtonBuddy

Stephanie Eckles builds a tool that lets you learn what it takes to ensure your buttons or button-styled links have accessible contrast across all states and surfaces.

Centering in CSS

Adam Argyle showcases five centering techniques and a series of tests which determine which one is the most resilient to change.

How the Nullish Coalescing Operator Works in JavaScript

Yogesh Chavan explains how the nullish coalescing operator that is introduced in ES11 works.

HTML tags every frontend developer should know

David Atanda describes some of the most useful HTML tags you may be overlooking.

Continuous Performance Analysis with Lighthouse CI and GitHub Actions

Ayooluwa Isaiah covers the full extent of what the Lighthouse CI tool can do and how to set it up in GitHub Actions.

How we built the GitHub globe

Tobias Ahlin explains what does the new GitHub homepage represents and how they build it with WebGL.

What Is Full Site Editing and What Does It Mean for the Future of WordPress?

Justin Tadlock announces 2021 as the year of the site editor as WordPress prepares for 5.7 release.

How to Build a Site Structure for SEO

Erika Varagouli shows how to build a site structure that works and helps your site achieve SEO success.

Public APIs

Agustinus Nathaniel makes a site that helps you find some public APIs for your next projects.

What Makes CSS Hard To Master

Tim Severien reflects on the CSS language and finds out what makes it hard.

Creating UI Components in SVG

Sarah Drasner illustrates the possibilities that SVG opens up for UI component development by walking through and breaking down one particular use case, the timeline.

Creating randomness with pure CSS

Adir Slutzki shows how to make a random card effect using pure HTML and CSS.

Lots of Ways to Use Math.random() in JavaScript

Jwahir Sundai showcases different creative usages of Math.random() in JavaScript, including random animation, random image and random background color.

Sticky CSS Grid Items

Melanie Richards explains the problem and the solution on how to make a grid item sticky.

Boop! - A whimsical twist on hover transitions

Josh Comeau describes how to build an animated “boop” hover effect in React.

Customer Experience or User Experience?

Bob Salmon writes about his understanding of CX and UX terms, how they’re similar and different.

HTML Tags Memory Test

Paul Foster makes a game-like demo about how many HTML tags can you remember?

HTTP Archive's annual state of the web report

The Web Almanac is a comprehensive report on the state of the web, backed by real data and trusted web experts.

2020 End-of-Year Thoughts Archives

Web builders answer the same question: What is one thing you learned about building websites this year?

What you might not know about sizing in CSS

Tomas Pustelnik shares his findings of sizing and layout models and how to handle possible issues.

Alt vs Figcaption

Elaina Natario writes how alt attribute and figcaption tag are interpreted by assistive technologies.

A Utility Class for Covering Elements

Michelle Barker explores different ways how to make utility class for completely covering one element with another.

How To Design A Simple UI When You Have A Complex Solution

Suzanne Scacca shares some tips for designing a simple UI regardless of your solution’s complexity.

How to cope with legacy code and technical debt

Ivo Lukač writes in-depth post explaining what legacy code and technical debt are and how to deal with it.

EStimator

Find out how much turning on modern JS could save.

State Of CSS 2020

The results of the annual survey about the latest trends in CSS.

State of CSS 2020 Survey Results: Tailwind CSS Wins Most Adopted Technology, Utility-First CSS on the Rise

Sarah Gooding summarizes some of the most noteworthy data from State of CSS 2020 survey.

How to Get Sticky and Full-Bleed Elements to Play Well Together

Silvestar Bistrović explains how to create a tricky non-centered layout with full-bleed and sticky elements.

How to Fix Issues With CSS Position Sticky Not Working?

Daniyal Hamid compiles a list of things you can do to fix some common issues when using position sticky.

How to Add Text in Borders Using Basic HTML Elements

Preethi Sam shows how to use fieldset and legend to place text within borders.

100 lessons for the year to come

UX Collective shares a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.

Blogging for Devs

Monica Lent makes a site in which you could discover the best developer blogs on any tech stack.

Clean advertising

Jeremy Keith describes where did web advertising go wrong and how to fix it.

"Yes or No?" — One Checkbox vs Two Radio Buttons.

Sara Soueidan tries to figure out if you have a question with a binary Yes/No answer, is it better to use one checkbox or two radio buttons?

Your first attempt at making anything accessible will be awful

Sheri Byrne-Haber writes why your first effort at accessibility is unlikely to be outstanding.

The Core Web Vitals hype train

Katie Sylor-Miller writes about the pros and cons of Core Web Vitals.

Thinking Like a Front-end Developer

Ahmad Shadeed explains how to implement a layout in CSS by thinking about the possible solutions, and asking a lot of questions to get it right.

Touch Targets on Touchscreens

Aurora Harley writes all about how to make usable touch targets for mobile and tablet design.

How to Load Fonts in a Way That Fights FOUT and Makes Lighthouse Happy

Adrian Bece explains how to set up font loading that not only makes Lighthouse happy but also overcomes the dreaded flash of unstyled text.

Prevent layout shifts with CSS Grid stacks

Hubert Sablonnière explains what layout shift is, which problems might occur and how to use CSS Grid to fix it.

Super Tiny Icons

Super Tiny Web Icons are minuscule SVG versions of your favourite logos with average size under 465 bytes!

A Deep Dive Into CSS Grid minmax()

Ahmad Shadeed writes a complete guide about minmax() plus some real-world use-cases.

A user’s guide to CSS variables

Lea Verou writes a complete guide about CSS Variables, its support, fallback, and more.

A Complete Guide to CSS Gradients

Geoff Graham makes a complete guide to CSS gradients with many useful resources.

What's New In DevTools (Chrome 87)

Jecelyn Yeen shows updates from Chrome DevTools, including new CSS Grid debugging tools.

Responsive Snakes! And what they can teach you about CSS 🐍

Vitor Paladini shares insights about CSS from creating responsive snake, a silly webdev meme.

Label in Name in WCAG 2.1

Todd Libby writes about the benefits of using matching text labels with the corresponding accessible name.

Dev Fonts

Mostafa Gaafar makes a list of the best fonts for coding with live preview.

10 Inspiring Ideas for Your Next Front-End Project

Simon Holdorf gets inspired by these 10 great examples from CodePen.

Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search

Google announces that the page experience signals in ranking will roll out in May 2021.

The State of Developer Ecosystem 2020

JetBrains identifies the latest trends around tools, technologies, programming languages, and many other exciting facets of the development world.

Emulate vision deficiencies in DevTools

Addy Osmani shows how to use Chrome DevTools to emulate color vision deficiencies, helping you better optimize your pages to be inclusive of users with differing levels of color blindness.

Chrome DevTools: Create your own keyboard shortcuts and increase productivity

Umar Hansa shows how to assign your own preferred keyboard shortcuts to common workflows in Chrome DevTools.

The Cleanest Trick for Autogrowing Textareas

Chris Coyier explains how to make a textarea more like a div, so it expands in height as much as it needs to contain the current value.

GitHub Actions to securely publish npm packages

Liran Tal explains in details how to set up GitHub Actions to automate the publishing of npm packages securely.

Flow CSS Utility

Andy Bell shares a technique for unifying vertical space between direct siblings.

SVGBox

SVGBox makes it dead-easy to include icons in your project.

Chasing the Pixel-Perfect Dream

Josh Comeau answers questions about pixel-perfect development and shows tricks for the closer pixel-perfect execution.

5 ways to Identify Fonts in a Web Page.

Rob Hope shows different ways to find fonts in a website.

What I Didn't Know in the 2020 State of CSS Survey, Part 1

Max Antonucci documents all the things from the 2020 State of CSS Survey which he didn’t know and explains everything about them.

How to persistently change third party web sites with browser developer tools

Chris Heilmann describes how to fix problems in web sites without getting access to the source code.

How to Animate the Details Element Using WAAPI

Louis Hoebregts shows how to animate the native <details> element using the Web Animations API.

The lang attribute: browsers telling lies, telling sweet little lies

Manuel Matuzović describes the negative effects of a missing or wrong lang attribute that are not always evident.

Technical debt as a lack of understanding

Dave Rupert explores and explains all about technical debt in web development.

Webbed Briefs

Heydon Pickering starts a new vlog with brief videos about the web, its technologies, and how to make the most of them.

CSS Variables for React Devs

Josh Comeau shows how to take advantage of CSS variables and use it in React apps.

Little Things on My Personal Site

Chris Coyier documents little interesting bits of his personal website re-write, like fonts, colors and YouTube embed.

Gradient borders with curves and 3d movement in CSS (Nextjs ticket clone)

Medhat Dawoud writes a step-by-step tutorial on how to build a ticket with gradient border and 3D interaction.

NDTV achieved a 55% improvement in LCP by optimizing for Core Web Vitals

Read how NDTV enhanced user experience and thus retention by optimizing for Web Vitals.

Checka11y.css

A CSS stylesheet to quickly highlight a11y concerns.

Announcement: We've partnered with BrowserStack

Caniuse team announces its partnership with BrowserStack, which allows testing properties on real browsers and devices.

1 Step to Incentivize Stars and Forks on GitHub

Nastyox shares a copy-and-paste snippet that will enable you to feature your supporters by name in the README file.

Blobs

Blobs app allows you to generate beautiful blob shapes for web and flutter apps.

Thinking Outside the Box with CSS Grid

Alex Trost describes in detail how to create more complex designs with fewer elements than we could with Flexbox alone.

JavaScript ES2021 Exciting Features

Taran explains the new JavaScript ES2021 features, like String.prototype.replaceAll and Promise.any.

Largest Contentful Paint: measure and optimize it

Aymen Loukil writes a guide that helps you understand what LCP is, how to measure it, and, how to improve its score.

Alternative Text for CSS Generated Content

Adrian Roselli shares insights on how to add alternative text for content generated by CSS, like images or glyphs.

Creating CSS Shapes with Emoji

Preethi Sam explains how to use the concept of CSS Shapes with emoji to create interesting text-wrapping effects.

10 useful HTML file upload tips for web developers

Tapas Adhikary shows 10 features of HTML file upload support, including drag-and-drop and multiple uploads.

Most Common GSAP Mistakes

GreenSock team makes a list of common mistakes and some tips on how to avoid them.

Squircley

Squircley is all you need to start creating beautiful organic shapes ready to use for logos, icons and background images.

min(), max(), and clamp(): three logical CSS functions to use today

Una Kravets explains how to control element sizing, maintain proper spacing, and implement fluid typography using these well-supported CSS functions.

People Problems

Robin Rendle writes about human problems that might be bigger than technical problems.

Cumulative Layout Shift, The Layout Instability Metric

Boris Schapira writes about Layout Instability API, how to visualize CLS in the browser, how to optimize for CLS, and about some unusual characteristics.

Writing even more CSS with Accessibility in Mind, Part 2: Respecting user preferences

Manuel Matuzović writes about user preferences and how to respect them when writing CSS.

The -​-var: ; hack to toggle multiple values with one custom property

Lea Verou explains how to use whitespace in custom property to make an “if” statement in CSS.

Presenting v7.0.0 of the npm CLI

npm turns 11 years and it is shipping some long-awaited and requested features.

List of domains which has .new as TLD

NaveenKumar Namachivayam shares the curated collection of .new shortcut domains.

Learn & practice Git

Git exercises is a new way to learn and practice Git and discover its features you might haven’t been aware of.

The Widening Responsibility for Front-End Developers

Chris Coyier covers all aspects of the front-end developer role in great detail.

:focus-visible Is Here

Matthias Ott explains how to use a new CSS feature, :focus-visible, including JavaScript polyfill.

Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid

Josh Comeau shows an elegant solution to make a tricky modern layout using CSS grid.

How to Make an Unobtrusive Scroll-to-Top Button

Marcel Rojas shows three different JavaScript methods on how to reveal a “scroll-to-top” button.

How to Detect When a Sticky Element Gets Pinned

David Walsh shows how to determine when an element becomes sticky.

Webpack 5 release

Webpack releases a new version which contains architectural improvements and new features.

Beautiful CSS 3D Transform Examples

Polypane showcases CSS 3D transforms which create depth and visually interesting elements on your page using perspective.

How One Guy Ruined #Hacktoberfest2020 #Drama

Joel Thoms writes about a flood of low quality PR spam.

A Complete Guide to CSS Media Queries

Learn all about how media queries can modify the appearance (and even behaviour) or a website or app based on a matched set of conditions about the user’s device, browser or system settings.

Make Your Own Dev Tool

Amber Wilson shows how bookmarklets could be super handy during development.

Why Tailwind CSS

Shawn Wang explains some pros and cons of using Tailwind CSS.

There's a good reason why experienced devs say "it depends" so often

Jerod Santo tries to reason why devs use the term “it depends”.

Inspect CSS Grid

This guide shows you how to discover CSS grids on a page, examining them and debugging layout issues in the Elements panel of Chrome DevTools.

npm automation tokens

npm introduces a new setting for access tokens to support publishing to the npm registry from CI/CD workflows.

Achieving Vertical Alignment (Thanks, Subgrid!)

Cathy Dutton shows how to use subgrid to vertically center the content across all items.

Build a responsive media browser with CSS

Andy Bell shows how to use modern CSS layout to create a flexible media browser and video player layout that maintains its aspect ratio at all viewports.

A Gentle Introduction to Using a Docker Container as a Dev Environment

Burke Holland explains (in a sarcastic and fun way) how to set up and use Docker (from VS Code).

One of my favourite accessibility testing tools: The Tab Key.

Manuel Matuzović lists 9 points on how to why the tab key is his favourite tool for testing website accessibility.

The failed promise of Web Components

Lea Verou questions the ability to develop and use Web Components easily.

5 CSS Properties You Probably Did Not Know About

Timothy Okooboh writes about some CSS properties that you might know of/forgot about, but that could be quite useful.

Hacktoberfest 2020: Registration Now Open 🎃

Commit to open source by signing up for Hacktoberfest.

JavaScript bookmarks

Steve Gardner shows how to save JavaScript snippets as browser bookmarks.

CSS Animation with motion

Henry Zarza makes eye-catching, playful CSS-only animations.

GSAP 3 Express Free Trial

The course for absolute beginners that guides you through the best parts of the GSAP API.

Optimizing CSS for faster page loads

Tomas Pustelnik shows a series of techniques on how to optimize the CSS code for performance.

Enforcing performance budgets with webpack

Ayooluwa Isaiah describes how to set limits to code using webpack performance budgets.

Publish/Update NPM packages with GitHub Actions

Carl-W. Igelstroem describes how to use GitHub Actions to push new releases on NPM.

Stop Using React

Ender Minyard explains why you should stop using JavaScript frameworks. There is a quality discussion in comments, too.

Why I Don’t Have Time For Your Coding Challenge

Michelle Barker shares thoughts on why coding challenges might not be a good idea.

Visualize Data Structures in VSCode

Addy Osmani shows how to use VSCode extension to visualize data structures.

Editing HTML Like A Boss In VS Code

Caleb Porzio shows how to use VS Code to supercharge HTML editing.

BGJar

Free SVG background generator for your websites, blogs and app.

Writing even more CSS with Accessibility in Mind, Part 1: Progressive Enhancement

Manuel Matuzović describes how to use progressive enhancement to write more accessible CSS code.

CSS Images Module Level 4: the image() notation

The image-set() function allows an author to provide multiple resolutions of an image and let the UA decide which is most appropriate in a given situation.

Using the brightness() CSS Filter to generically highlight Content

Rick Strahl describes how to use the CSS brightness filter to highlight content without having to specify a specific color value.

70% Repetition in Style Sheets: Data on How We Fail at CSS Optimization

Jens Oliver Meiert explains how what it means to know how many declarations you use in your style sheets and how many of those declarations are unique.

How CSS Perspective Works

Amit Sheen explains all about CSS perspective, from how it works to how to use it to create 3D animations.

How to Choose the Right Website Fonts

Lucy Turner shows how you can choose fonts that are right for your website.

Beautiful CSS box-shadow examples

A collection of real-world examples of beautiful CSS box-shadow examples.

Lighthouse recommends smaller libraries

Addy Osmani introduces Lighthouse's feature, which recommends smaller libraries that improve bundle size.

Custom bullets with CSS ::marker

Adam Argyle and Oriol Brufau show how trivial it is to customize the color, size or type of number or bullet when using a <ul> or <ol>.

Ask an expert: Why is CSS... the way it is?

Chris Lilley highlights and describes many of CSS’s shortcomings.

Supercharging <input type=number>

Kilian Valkhof describes how to build a better input type=number.

CSS variables: Scoping

Chidume Nnamdi explains all about CSS Variables, including usage, support, and advantages.

Case Study: Implementing Accessible Data Charts for the Khan Academy 2018 Annual Report

Sara Soueidan explains how Khan Academy 2018 Annual Report is presented and implemented in an accessible way to site’s visitors.

What is the Value of Browser Diversity?

Dave Rupert tries to answer a question: What if Firefox switched to Chromium tomorrow, what would we lose?

Comparing Browsers for Responsive Design

Chris Coyier reviews a number of these desktop apps where the goal is showing your site at different dimensions all at the same time.

lookup.design

Find and get inspired by named, categorized and indexed by hand design examples.

Why you should hire a frontend developer

Matt Hobbs explains what the benefits of hiring a dedicated frontend developer are.

Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting

Ethan Wang shows how an emerging CSS standard can fix old typographical problems and raise the bar for web apps.

Accordion Rows in CSS Grid

Eric Meyer describes the way he is using CSS Grid rows to make the layout more flexible.

Things I Wish I’d Known About CSS

Dave Smyth shares some useful things for easier CSS understanding, including box model, how height and width are calculated, and collapsing margins.

Fluid Images in a Variable Proportion Layout

Lari Maza shows many ways how to display images correctly on all viewports, including using the new aspect-ratio property.

What Happens When Border Radii Overlap?

Jay Sitter shows how browsers calculate the border-radius values and why it doesn’t work as expected sometimes.

CSS Animated Google Fonts

Jhey Tompkins shows how to use Google variable fonts and CSS animation to make some interesting effects.

Keyframes

Keyframes are simple visual tools to help you generate CSS for your projects.

5 most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day

Holly Tuke describes the five most annoying inaccessible web elements she faces as a blind screen reader user every day and how to fix them.

A CSS-only, animated, wrapping underline

Nicky Meuleman explains in detail how to create eye-catching, animated link underlines using only CSS.

Create a line break while maintaining inline status

Andy Bell shows how to create a line break after an inline element while retaining that inline element’s inline status using pseudo-element magic.

Offering Options for mailto: and tel: Links

Chris Coyier introduces the mailgo JavaScript library which displays popup when you click on mailto or tel links with some useful options.

Highlighting great user experiences on the mobile web

New Chrome will display the “Fast Page” label on mobile for pages that have optimized against web performance metrics that are most representative of a user’s overall experience.

5 lessons from 50 days of CSS art

Suzanne Aitchison shares findings of CSS during her project of creating CSS art pieces.

Why "Skip Nav" Link is important!

Raja Jaganathan shows how to use and create a “Skip Nav” link.

Capture node screenshots via Elements panel context menu

Google Chrome allows you to take a screenshot of an element by right-clicking the element and select “Capture node screenshot”.

Changing World, Changing Mozilla

A big announcement of a significant restructuring of Mozilla Corporation.

What does 100% mean in CSS?

Amelia Wattenberger explains what does percent refers to in CSS for different properties.

More Control Over CSS Borders With background-image

Chris Coyier introduces Amit Sheen’s Dashed Border Generator, which helps make fancy borders.

Practical Use Cases for JavaScript’s closest() Method

Andreas Remdt shows how to use closest() function to do some useful things with JavaScript.

What I Learned by Fixing One Line of CSS in an Open Source Project

Benjamin Schachter describes his journey about fixing a single line in Svelte docs site.

That’s Just How I Scroll

Chris Coyier highlights some interesting techniques from Chris Smith about showing scrollable elements.

Add support for `@apply` with complex classes, including responsive and pseudo-class variants

Adam Wathan shows how to use @apply with multiple, complex classes for better clarity in Tailwind CSS.

What is the width of this div?

Adam Argyle asks a simple question about widths in CSS. Do you know the answer?

content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance

Una Kravets shows how to improve initial load time by skipping the rendering of offscreen content.

Infinite Scroll without Layout Shifts

Addy Osmani describes how to avoid layout shifts with infinite scroll.

A Lightweight Masonry Solution

Ana Tudor explains how to create masonry solution using only CSS and how to make a JS fallback.

Rehearsing the Future

Members of Google’s speculative design teams discuss how they are rehearsing for what is next

The Making of: Netlify’s Million Devs SVG Animation Site

Sarah Drasner shows how latest Netlify SVG Animation is done with GSAP library.

State of Frontend 2020

The Software House team shows results from the survey for everyday frontend development according to 4,500 experts.

Spotting a Trend

Geoff Graham shows the latest trend on web design—blobby shapes.

Layout Shift GIF Generator

Chris Johnson creates a tool for visualizing the Core Web Vitals metric Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) with a simple GIF.

New in Chrome Dev Tools: Style editing for CSS-in-JS frameworks

Chrome Dev Tools now supports CSS-in-JS.

Want to get better at code? Teach someone CSS.

Peter Murray shares five lessons he learned from teaching someone CSS.

Bold on Hover… Without the Layout Shift

Ryan Mulligan demonstrates how to use bold text on hover without the layout shift using pseudo-elements.

CSS Vocabulary

An interactive website dedicated to CSS and its vocabulary.

Useful snippets

Emil Kowalski created a web page with plenty of CSS animations that you could copy with a single click.

How To Create A GitHub Profile README

Monica Powell shows how to add personal README file to GitHub profile.

GitHub Activity in README

James George shares instructions on how to update README.md with the recent GitHub activity of a user.

Dark ages of the Web

Pavel Laptev shows the typical design elements from the past in a single page.

@property: giving superpowers to CSS variables

Una Kravets announces the implementation of the Houdini Properties and Values API in Chromium 85.

Tradeoffs and Shifting Complexity

Dave Rupert writes how to deal with complexity in frontend development.

A closure

Dan Abramov explains what is a Closure in JavaScript.

8 SCSS Best Practices to Keep in Mind

Annie Liao shares useful advice on writing SCSS code.

What ya need there is a bit of templating

Chris Coyier explains how to use templates in web development.

Keys for You to Become a Better Frontend Web Developer

Abdelrhman Yousry creates a cheat sheet for improving your web development skills.

Just JavaScript

A course by Dan Abramov and Maggie Appleton for a better understanding of JavaScript.

The Guide To Design

A free guide to learn product design in an uncomplicated way.

Develop, Preview, Test

Guillermo Rauch elaborates how prioritizing end-to-end (E2E) testing for the critical parts of your app will reduce risk and give you the best return.

Native image lazy-loading for the web - Improved data-savings and distance-from-viewport thresholds

Chrome improves its implementation of image lazy-loading by reducing the distance-from-viewport thresholds to better meet developer expectations.

CSS Painting Order

Martin Robinson describes the CSS Stacking Context in details with real-life examples.

The physics behind spring animations

Maxime Heckel explains how a spring animation in a library like Framer Motion works and the physics behind it.

Backdrop Filter effect with CSS

Uriel Bitton shows how to create a blurred transparent background.

Make Jamstack Slow? Challenge Accepted.

Steve Keep purposely makes a slow site to better understand possible site performance bottlenecks.

Making lil’ me - part 1

Cassie Evans describes how to get values from the mouse movement and plug them into an animation.

Laws of UX

Laws of UX is a collection of the maxims and principles that designers can consider when building user interfaces.

Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS

Una Kravets highlights a few powerful lines of CSS for building robust modern layouts.

CSS News July 2020

Rachel Andrew takes a look at some of the interesting CSS features that are making their way into browsers right now.

The ultimate guide to iframes

Nada Rifki goes through many iframe element features and talks about usage, tricky situations, security, and accessibility.

A (Very) Beginner’s Guide to WEBPACK

Carrie Pascale explains basic webpack concepts and usage.

An Overview of Scroll Technologies

Zach Saucier writes an overview of scroll related technologies and tools.

15 Vanilla JavaScript PROJECT IDEAS: BEGINNER TO EXPERT [WITH FREE TUTORIAL]

Muhammad Ali shares 15 project ideas for practicing your Vanilla JavaScript skills.

Custom properties

Jeremy Keith realises that “CSS variables” is a very limiting way of thinking about custom properties.

CSS Gifs

Lynn Fisher created a Twitter thread with fun CSS gifs.

Styling Layout Wrappers In CSS

Ahmad Shadeed explains everything about layout wrappers in CSS, how they work, how to use them, and when not to use them.

When Sass and New CSS Features Collide

Ana Tudor explains how to solve a problem when a new CSS Feature has the same name as the existing Sass function like min() or linear-gradient().

Responsive Styling Using Attribute Selectors

Jakob Eriksen thinks of a new naming convention that could help make responsive styling possibly easier.

New in Chrome: CSS Overview

Robin Rendle shows how to turn on the new (and still experimental) feature that shows an overview of the CSS used on a site.

How-to guide for creating edge-to-edge color bars that work with a grid

Marcel Moreau explains how to use linear-gradient and math to create an edge-to-edge background that works well with grid like Bootstrap.

When a Line Doesn’t Break

Welling Guzman discovers five properties that can possibly affect how and when a line breaks.

Is my host fast yet?

Real-world server response (Time to First Byte) latencies, as experienced by real-world users navigating the web.

CSS Typing Effect

Marko Denic creates a CSS-only typing effect demo.

A Smashing Guide To Accessibility

Smashing Magazine’s guide highlights the content which can help you create more accessible sites and web applications.

Accessible to some

Manuel Matuzović creates a fun accessibility experiment and shares some useful lessons about it.

The form element

Learn how to use the form element, what attributes are available and how to style it.

Bootstrap 5 alpha!

Bootstrap 5’s very first alpha has arrived, and here is what is new.

The 🍔 menu

Mikael Ainalem shares a step by step guide to creating a Hamburger Menu in SVG & CSS.

The Return of the 90s Web

Max Böck shares his predictions about web development trends.

In Defense of a Fussy Website

Sarah Drasner explains why you should build your site with care and excitement.

GitHub statistic reporter

See your GitHub profile differently.

What is Developer Experience (DX)?

Chris Coyier explains all about developer experience, the experience of developers.

CSS-only Slide-up Caption Hover Effect

Michelle Barker describes how to create a caption that needs to slide over an image on hover, revealing more content.

Hybrid positioning with CSS variables and max()

Lea Verou shows how to position an element with some smart JS and CSS calculations.

The Surprising Things That CSS Can Animate

Will Boyd explores some of the unexpected things that CSS can animate and some nifty things you can do by animating them.

Global and Component Style Settings with CSS Variables

Sara Soueidan explains how she uses CSS variables to create more manageable project styles and more portable patterns.

CUBE CSS

Andy Bell explains his CSS methodology oriented towards simplicity and consistency with a heavy dosage of pragmatism.

Junior Developers Checklist for Landing a Remote Job

Carl-W. Igelstroem shares his story about landing a remote job and a checklist that could help you land one, too. Bonus: Remote Junior Developer jobs directory.

40+ High Quality Free Resources for Web Development

Jose Felix shares free illustration, development, CSS, Tailwind, design, and productivity resources.

Website performance is getting worse

Gerry McGovern shares his concerns about web performance.

Case study: Analyzing Notion app performance

Ivan Akulov reverse-engineer the Notion app and analyses possible ways to improve its performance.

How to Get All Custom Properties on a Page in JavaScript

Tyler Gaw shows how to get all CSS Custom Properties using JavaScript.

Cool Little CSS Grid Tricks for Your Blog

Ana Tudor found a solution to a long-running problem using a modern CSS grid technique.

Creative Background Patterns Using Gradients, CSS Shapes, and Even Emojis

Preethi shows how to use gradients and other things, like CSS shapes and emoji, to make background patterns.

Learn Z-Index Using a Visualization Tool

Thiru Manikandan shows how to understand z-index and stacking order.

How to Start Freelancing (The Basics)

Kyle Prinsloo shares advice on how to start freelancing.

These free tools for developers are 🔥🔥🔥

Fayaz Ahmed made a list of free tools for web development.

CSS :is() and :where() are coming to browsers

The new CSS :is() and :where() pseudo-classes are now supported in the preview versions of both Safari (Tech Preview 106) and Firefox (version 78). Chrome’s implementation remains behind flag.

Overlapping Header with CSS Grid

Jonathan Snook found a way to make an overlapping header with CSS Grid using before pseudo element.

Reverse ordered lists

Manuel Matuzović found interesting solutions for a list of items in reverse order.

Where to Find Remote Developer Jobs

Kyle Prinsloo reviews some remote job boads with pros and cons for every single one.

How to Apologize

Jason C. McDonald analyses Triplebyte’s apology email.

Web Dev Feeds

Šime Vidas created a collection of over 800 RSS feeds for web developers, updated monthly.

CSS Section Separator Generator

A tool for creating unique section separators.

CSS Grid: Newspaper Layout

Olivia Ng created awesome newsletter layout using CSS Grid.

HTMHell special: close buttons

Manuel Matuzović inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in front-end development: the close button.

Using Structured Data to Enhance Search Engine Optimization

Tristram Tolliday shows how to use structured data to help surface content in more useful and engaging ways.

Block Links: The Search for a Perfect Solution.

Vikas Parashar explores possible solutions for block links

On fixed elements and backgrounds

Chen Hui Jing shares insights about position: fixed and backgrounds.

CSS Tips for New Devs

Amber Wilson shares CSS tips for beginners.

Netlify Build Plugins Are Here!

Build Plugins allow you to automate build tasks, customize your build process, and make your development process even easier.

How to de-Google-ify your website

Marko Saric explores in depth how to remove/replace Google products from your website.

Public APIs

A collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development.

JavaScript to Know for React

Kent C. Dodds shares how much JavaScript is enough to learn React.

The Fastest Google Fonts

Harry Roberts figures out the most efficient way to load Google Fonts.

Overflow In CSS

Ahmad Shadeed digs deep in overall in CSS.

How to Ruin Your Career in 8 Easy Steps

Excellent list of advices how not to ruin your career.

Let’s Make One of Those Fancy Scrolling Animations Used on Apple Product Pages

Jurn van Wissen shows how to recreate an animation from Apple’s site.

My favourite line of CSS

Damon Muma shares how to make a responsive grid without media queries.

Fast Software, the Best Software

Craig Mod shares his thoughts about building fast and light software.

PerfectPixel by WellDoneCode (pixel perfect)

Chrome extension which make it easier to develop pixel-perfect sites.

Modern CSS Solutions

Stephanie Eckles shares modern CSS solutions for old CSS problems.

Why does writing matter in remote work?

Tim Casasola shares insights on why writing is important.

What’s Deno, and how is it different from Node.js?

Everything you need to know about Deno, a new runtime for JavaScript.

How to Tame Line Height in CSS

Caleb Williams has figured out how to enhance line-height in CSS.

Promises in 15 minutes

Mariane Santana explains how Promise works.

A Complete Guide to CSS Functions

All you need to know about CSS Functions.

Quicklink

A drop-in solution for sites to prefetch links based on what is in the user’s viewport.

LinkFork

Customize your link preview.

Web Vitals

Google Chrome Developer Relations share essential metrics for a healthy site.

Web Vitals Extension

A Chrome extension to measure essential metrics for a healthy site,

List Style Recipes

Learn how to style ordered and unordered lists and somewhat unusual styling situations.

How to Create Custom WordPress Editor Blocks in 2020.

Peter Tasker shows how to create custom Gutenberg blocks for laying out content in WordPress.

How to Use Block Variations in WordPress

Dmitry Mayorov explains how to define instances of existing blocks using WordPress Block Variations.

Combined Attack on Elementor Pro and Ultimate Addons for Elementor Puts 1 Million Sites at Risk

Wordfence shares insights of last’ week’s exploitation of vulnerabilities in two related plugins, Elementor Pro and Ultimate Addons for Elementor.

Custom Cascades

Miriam Suzanne shares how a smart way how to use a cascade of custom properties without worrying about the specificity.

Snowpack

The fastest dev environment for modern web apps.

Advice for Writing a Technical Resume

Sarah Drasner shares useful tips on how to build your resume.

Codiamo, a code journal platform built for code newbies!

If you are into #100DaysOfCode, this tool could help stay on track.

Setting Height And Width On Images Is Important Again

Barry Pollard explains why you should put width and height attributes to every image.

Using CSS to Control Text Selection

Will Boyd teaches how to handle text selection using CSS only.

Free Udemy Development courses

There are 71 free development courses on Udemy.

5 Free Tools That Will Make You More Productive

Manea Adrian shows 5 free amazing tools that will make you a more overall productive developer.

Automating Web Perf measurement with Puppeteer

Addy Osmani collected recipes for automating Web Performance measurement with Puppeteer.

BlurHash

BlurHash is a compact representation of a placeholder for an image.

CSS @Property

Define your own CSS property with a brand new @property.

Chrome + System Fonts Snafu

Chrome developers are aware that the browser renders the system font incorrectly, but don’t plan to fix the bug until mid-May.

Using the Line Breaking Element

Adam Laki shares his thoughts on using the <br> elements.

When debugging, your attitude matters

Julia Evans and Chris Coyier agree that being positive could get you a long way, even when debugging.

CSS Findings From The New Facebook Design

Ahmad Shadeed breaks down the new Facebook designs and finds many interesting CSS things.

Remote Work Tips for Developers

Devon Campbell shares tips about working remotely.

The title "frontend developer" is obsolete

Another discussion about “frontend developer” title.

<css-doodle />

A web component for drawing patterns with CSS.

Must watch JavaScript by AllThingsSmitty

Matt Smith’s collection of well-received talks about JavaScript.

Must watch CSS by AllThingsSmitty

Matt Smith’s collection of well-received talks about CSS.

CSS Protips by AllThingsSmitty

Matt Smith’s collection of tips to help take your CSS skills pro.

My journey to 9 software engineering offers

Utsav Ahuja shares his learnings and advice on software engineering offers.

Little Things I Like to Do with Git

Harry Roberts shares his Git tips and tricks.

The Top 100+ Developer Tools 2019

A single place with more than 100 tools and apps for developers.

4 Simple Tips to Better Communication for devs (or how to avoid conflict, confusion, and talk to people).

Leo Gopal shares some useful insights and thoughts about communication skills.

Fit on a Floppy

Could you fit your website on a floppy disc?