Let’s say you don’t know JavaScript. You’re a web designer and you’re focused largely on UI and UX. Let’s look at some things you could learn in a day that will give you that bang for the buck.

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 […]