Brian Holt and the Frontend Masters team are putting on a free workshop today and tomorrow that is live-streamed for anyone that’s interested. This is super cool because, despite the fact that there is a mountain of articles about web development out there, there are only few that start with the basics in a manne...
Last year, I assembled A Collection of Interesting Facts about CSS Grid Layout after giving a workshop. This year, I was worked on another workshop and I’ve learned some more exciting facts about the layout spec we all so love. Of course, I’m not going to keep my knowledge to myself. I’m happy to shar...
One of the reasons I love working with Vue is because of how useful methods, computed, and watchers are, and the legibility of their distinction. Until understanding all three, it’s difficult to leverage the functionality of Vue to its full potential. Still, the majority of people I see confused about this framework ...
In CSS, you might see a ruleset like this: html { font-family: Lato, "Lucida Grande", Tahoma, Sans-Serif; } What the heck, right? Why don’t I just tell it what font I want to use and that’s that? The whole idea here is fallbacks. The browser will try to use the font you specified first (Lato, in this case...
I work on a large team with amazing people like Simona Cotin, John Papa, Jessie Frazelle, Burke Holland, and Paige Bailey. We all speak a lot, as it’s part of a developer advocate’s job, and we’re also frequently asked where we’ll be speaking. For the most part, we each manage our own sites wher...
Front-end development has shifted to a modular approach, improving the encapsulation and structure of codebases. Tooling became a critical part of any project, and right now there are a lot of possible choices. Webpack has gained popularity in the last years because of its power and scalability, but some developers fou...
I was recently doing some client work where I used both <clipPath>s and <mask>s in SVG to hide and show content for animation. When I started this project, I thought I knew all of the reasons to use one over the other. But, as tends to happen, working closely with something reveals idiosyncrasies. In this p...
Filters are an interesting way to deal with data rendering in Vue but are only useful in a small amount of cases. The first thing to understand about filters is that they aren’t replacements for methods, computed values, or watchers, because filters don’t transform the data, just the output that the user se...
Back by popular demand! It’s difficult to keep track of all of the great talks and conferences happening in our industry. Sometimes you may find out too late that an event is taking place, and it’s a real shame when it’s an something you might have attended. We’ve compiled this list so you can s...
I’m thrilled to announce a brand new workshop series I’m starting with Val Head about web animation! We’ll be taking two-day workshop around to different cities starting this November, starting with Austin and New York. Whether you’re a beginner or you’ve been diving into animation already, this course won’...
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