The most popular Front-End links of 2016
We send an email newsletter to over 70,000 front-end web developers each and every week.
As such, we thought it would be worthwhile to take a look back over all the issues we have sent throughout 2016 and highlight some of the most popular articles we’ve shared.
Here’s what front-end developers clicked on in 2016:
1: Google’s HTML & CSS Style Guide
Google | Shared in Issue 258
This isn’t new, but a few recommendations in here might surprise you.
Google’s advice is both useful and intriguing and plenty of you seemed to agree, making this our most clicked link of 2016.
2: Do You Know These Eight HTML5 Tags?
Simon Codrington | Shared in Issue 229
Simon shares details on some of the lesser known HTML tags, along with practical explanations and handy examples.
Includes a look at contextual highlighting with ‘mark’, quotations with ‘q’, and more.
3: Dirty Tricks From The Dark Corners Of Front-End
Vitaly Friedman | Shared in Issue 232
This superb slidedeck from a workshop given by Smashing Magazine’s proprietor proved popular. You’ll no doubt learn a few things from this.
4: A Guide to Writing Maintainable CSS
Adam Silver | Shared in Issue 239
MaintainableCSS outlines an approach to writing modular, scalable CSS without worrying about overzealous, pre-existing styles causing problems.
5: Bootstrap 4 — A Visual Guide
Carol Skelly | Shared in Issue 243
This visual look through what was new in version four of popular front-end framework Bootstrap — including cards, font changes, an XL grid tier, and tweaks to button styling, proved popular back in June.
6: Debugging The Web
Paul Irish | Shared in Issue 266
Paul Irish shares what’s worth knowing in Chrome’s DevTools and how they’ll help you when debugging your sites and carrying out front-end work. A lot of useful stuff here.
7: Twelve Fancy Chrome DevTools Tips
David Gilbertson | Shared in Issue 258
This roundup features several simple Chrome DevTools tips — you may uncover a few features you hadn’t got round to trying yet.
8: Delivering Octicons with SVG
Aaron Shekey | Shared in Issue 228
GitHub.com no longer delivers its icons via an icon font — it has switched to SVG. Plenty of folks wanted to take a look at the why and how.
9: HEAD
Josh Buchea | Shared in Issue 243
A comprehensive list of everything that could go in the <head> of your document. Starts from the usual basics (title, charset, etc.) but works up to a significant number of meta and link tags useful in various situations.
10: A Basic HTML 5 Template
Louis Lazaris | Shared in Issue 237
Louis Lazaris covers the bare elements you need for an HTML 5 template and how they come together. Originally published in 2013 but updated for 2016.
11: Front-End Performance — The Dark Side
Mathias Bynens | Shared in Issue 237
A focus on security-sensitive situations in which performance can actually be a bug rather than a feature.
12: Flexbox Patterns
CJ Cenizal | Shared in Issue 236
Some interactive examples showing practical ways to use Flexbox to build UI components for your own site, along with code you can use.
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