Friday Frontend SCSS Architecture, Functional JavaScript, and Quantum CSS, oh my!

This week’s Friday Frontend got me super excited. Not only are there some great beginner articles in it with tutorials and guided exercises, but some amazing deep dives into topics near and…

Friday Frontend: To Grid Or To Flex Edition

This week’s newsletter starts out with a couple interesting takes on the question: When should you use Flexbox vs CSS Grid? One takes a look at the big picture differences, while the other gives you a straightforward set of questions to ask yourself.

Friday Frontend: Design Systems Edition

This week I got super excited about Design Systems!

A design system is any set of tools, processes, and guidelines that helps you drive how your product is designed and developed. They help coordinate between design and development…

Friday Frontend: React and Gutenberg Edition

This week I got super excited about React coming to WordPress with Gutenberg!

Wordpress is used by millions of people world-wide, and with the new Gutenberg editor it is suddenly embracing modern web technologies, particularly…

Friday Frontend: Client Side Performance Edition

This week’s Friday Frontend Inspiration is the revitalization/renewal of interest in JavaScript performance optimization.

Following Addy Osmoni’s excellent post on ‘The Cost of JavaScript in 2018’ there has been intense…

Friday Frontend: Ultimate Guide to Learning CSS Edition

I spent the last 3–4 weeks putting together a massive compendium of resources for learning CSS, and it got me re-excited about CSS as a language. CSS is an incredibly rich and powerful language that gives us detailed access to the…

Friday Frontend: Next Next (js) plus Nuxt Edition

Hope your week has been great! Lots of interesting stuff this week, but in particular want to highlight the articles about Next.js and Nuxt.js, 2 higher level frameworks on top of React and Vue respectively.

Friday Frontend: WebAssembly is the Future Edition

The thing that I got super excited and inspired by this week is WebAssembly. Yes, we’re still in early days, but this is going to do so many amazing things for the web!

Friday Frontend: Framework Ecosystems Edition

This week I got super excited about the latest wave of JavaScript Framework innovation — the ecosystems around the frameworks!

As the core frameworks of React, Vue, and Angular mature we’re seeing more and more innovation in…

Friday Frontend: JavaScript Deep Dives Edition

Hope you’ve had a great week! This episode contains a lot of interesting stuff, but what stands out to me are 2 deep-dive articles on different pieces of JavaScript. Particularly the article comparing function components to classes was a…