Blog Post Articles

We can *mostly* use HTML alone for this API. But here, we’ll use CSS to style the “links” within paragraphs and a JS library to position them, in lieu of CSS anchoring.

Just to cut to the chase, the superpower is being able to adjust their weight (or at least one of their attributes, or as variable fonts call them, an “axis”) without changing the space they occupy. This means that interactive effect and animations can be done without worry for awkward reflow situations and performance problems. […]

Vue has become one of the top JavaScript frameworks for building and maintaining web apps. It is a popular pick for many developers because of its philosophy of creating an approachable, performant, and versatile approach to building scalable apps.

Let’s look at some of the popular tools and libraries used by the community today.

This API, which you can use entirely in HTML, allows you to open an element on top of *everything* despite where it lives in the DOM and without any particular styling.

You may have noticed that the FrontendMasters.com website is fast. We use Go on the backend and a small amount of vanilla JavaScript where it’s needed on the front-end. Our CTO chose Go because of its speed and simplicity. What’s not as simple is the AWS infrastructure behind the scenes. Sure, this diagram looks simple […]

We’ll look at how to use @auth/core, add a Google Provider, and get our sessions persisting in DynamoDB. There is a GitHub repo for reference on everything.

Let’s build a search form that looks like this: That feels like the absolute bowl-it-down-the-middle search form right now. Looks good but nothing fancy. And yet, coding it in HTML and CSS I don’t think is perfectly intuitive and makes use of a handful of decently modern and slightly lesser used features. The Label-Wrapping HTML […]

Jen Simmons posted Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, aka “Masonry” layout over on the WebKit blog the other day and is actively soliciting feedback. Our hope is that web designers and developers chime in (post to social media, write blog posts) with your thoughts about which direction CSS should take. Don’t mind if I do. Do […]

We just released the highly anticipated Frontend Handbook 2024, by Cody Lindley! The handbook provides an in-depth overview of the skills, tools, and technologies necessary to excel as a front-end developer / engineer. With 38,000 words of practical knowledge and advice, it covers the core technologies—HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—and how they form the foundation of […]

I only just recently saw Faces.js, a library for producing controllable cartoony avatars. It was launched in 2012, so I’m a little late to the party. It produces faces (busts, really) randomly, or with certain parameters locked to what you want. I think that’s a really cool idea, and if you needed this kind of […]