June 2, 2019 at 11:18 PMFrontend Weekly Digest (27 May – 2 June 2019)
This week we issue a really huge selection of all the essential news you might have missed on Front-end development. Make sure to check the latest updates on CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.
• The W3C vs. WHATWG war is finally over
• Mobile-First Indexing by default for new domains
• Getting Started with GraphQL: It’s pretty easy!
• How !important are we?
• Replacing JavaScript: How eBay made a web app 50x faster by switching programming languages
• Utility-first CSS: Ridiculously fast front-end development for almost every design
• Using the Grid Shepherd Technique to Order Data with CSS
• Understanding CSS Variables
• Custom multiline text underline with rounded caps
• xstyled — A new way to style components
• Why we prefer CSS Custom Properties to SASS variables
• The CSS background-image property as an anti-pattern
• Using the Grid Shepherd Technique to Order Data with CSS
• Announcing TypeScript 3.5
• Why I'm still using jQuery in 2019
• The Fastest Way to Render the DOM
Web-development
• The W3C vs. WHATWG war is finally over
• Mobile-First Indexing by default for new domains
• Getting Started with GraphQL: It’s pretty easy!
• How !important are we?
• Replacing JavaScript: How eBay made a web app 50x faster by switching programming languages
- Performance:
• Announcing Cloudflare Image Resizing: Simplifying Optimal Image Delivery
• Lighthouse plugin that displays the field performance of the page for real-world Chrome users over the last 30 days.
• Your first performance budget with Lighthouse
• Self-Host Your Static Assets
- Accessibility:
• The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation
• Color contrast accessibility tools
• Fix 85% of your Web Accessibility issues in 5 easy steps
• Tabindex: it rarely pays to be positive
CSS
• Utility-first CSS: Ridiculously fast front-end development for almost every design
• Using the Grid Shepherd Technique to Order Data with CSS
• Understanding CSS Variables
• Custom multiline text underline with rounded caps
• xstyled — A new way to style components
• Why we prefer CSS Custom Properties to SASS variables
• The CSS background-image property as an anti-pattern
• Using the Grid Shepherd Technique to Order Data with CSS
JavaScript
• Announcing TypeScript 3.5
• Why I'm still using jQuery in 2019
• The Fastest Way to Render the DOM
- Theory:
• 5 Ways to Convert a Value to String in JavaScript
• Functional JavaScript: Five ways to calculate an average with array reduce
• Implementing Private Variables In JavaScript
React:
• React 16 + Three.js integration tips (2019)
• Typing React (1) – Basic
• zoom-level — A comprehensive cross-browser package that allow you to determine page's and element's zoom level
• Returning null from setState in React 16
Angular:
• Version 8 of Angular — Smaller bundles, CLI APIs, and alignment with the ecosystem
• Angular & RxJS: Detecting Memory Leaks
• Checking out Angular’s CDK portals
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- Ember.js:
• Ember 3.10 Released
• Ember-data: Turn Frustration