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: 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…

Friday Frontend: CSS Grid is Growing Up Edition

Like any good software, CSS Grid is getting to the point where folks are demanding more of it. We’re seeing not only some great usecases and best practices emerge, but a whole set of ideas for ways to extend the standard to get more out of it…

Friday Frontend: New React Patterns

Hope you had a great week! Another week where what caught my eye was really in the JavaScript section — two very interesting articles looking at patterns I had not seen before in React. The first on a new hook related pattern, the second on recursive components (!).

Friday Frontend: Vanilla is Powerful Edition

Happy Friday! I hope you had a great week, filled with fun and learnings, and are going into the weekend ready to relax and enjoy.

This week what really struck me is we have a ton of articles (and some new videos from Mozilla)…

Friday Frontend: Hooks Are Appearing Everywhere Edition

Happy April! This week’s newsletter includes a couple really interesting examples of how React Hooks are starting to explode into prominence. The API has been live in a production release for just 2 months, but we’re starting to see a…

Friday Frontend: Testing and Tracking Edition

Hope your week was amazing, and if you’re in the States that you had a great Labor Day holiday.

This week there were two themes standing out to me: 1 was looking again at the right way to do testing in the frontend. I include…

Friday Frontend: The Power of Modern CSS

Hope you had a great week and are looking forward to a good weekend! This week’s articles fell into a couple of themes that I want to call out to you.

First, there’s a set of articles that highlight the power of modern CSS (and some…

Friday Frontend: This Edition is brought to you by CORS

Hope you had a great week! The big news in the tech/web world this week was a zero-day vulnerability for the popular Zoom video player, and there’s some fascinating info in one of the links below about how this vulnerability was…

Friday Frontend: Future Facing February Edition

Happy February! This week we’ve got an extra helping of forward-looking articles. From the future of JavaScript to new CSS properties, new versions of Yarn to WebVR, the future looks bright indeed.