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As you continue to evolve in your career to a senior/lead developer, you may stop and wonder what the next step is for you to continue moving forward. “Should I pursue a leadership role?” It’s important to understand that if you do decide to pursue management, that it’s a role change, not a promotion. It’s […]

Sometimes when crafting up some quick interactive vanilla JavaScript, I add an event listener and write the functionality I want to happen right there. For example, here’s a super basic character counter: Totally works. But, you won’t see any character count until you start typing something. That’s probably not ideal. It should count the characters […]

Google has this little UI widget called Baseline that is intended to show you when Web Platform features are supported across a “baseline” of browser support. I’m a little confused by it. It could just be me. I suppose I’m looking either to be enlightened, or to offer this as feedback in case others share […]

I think the styling story for Shadow DOM Web Components is not great. I’ve got what seems to me like a simple idea that would help that. Fair warning: I’m just some dude on the internet with an opinion here. I’m coming at it from an author’s perspective who has only written a handful of […]

Everyone knows you can use console.log() to log text and variables to the console. Did you know you could also render (limited) CSS, SVGs, and even HTML in it?!? I didn’t! It’s a neat technique that can delight the curious and further your brand for curious users.

I’m a huge proponent of open source, and here at Frontend Masters, we’re constantly looking for ways to support and promote various projects. Whether it’s through creating courseware for new projects, teaching our students how to work with them, engaging with maintainers, or even donating directly to some projects. In fact, since 2019, we’ve donated […]

You’ll hear people say they miss the Movable Type days. Or that Adobe should have never killed off Fireworks. Or in their heart they are still a MooTools stan. Or that their good ol’ days were Backbone and Lodash. Laying out sprites was their heyday. Table-based layout still makes the most sense to them. Every […]