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.

Web-development | CSS | Javascript

Web-development

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Portfolio Rework Part 1: Animation, Micro interaction & SVG
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Static Site Generators: A Beginner’s Guide

Accessibility:
• When Is A Button Not A Button?
• Accessibility is not a “React Problem”
• Web Accessibility Guide — A curated collection of web accessibility tips, tricks, and best practices.
• ARIA Authoring Practices on Accessible Date Pickers
• An accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages
• Using Artificial Intelligence to Generate Alt Text on Images

Performance:
• A Bit of Performance
• Serve Responsive Images

Animations:
• SVG Filter Effects: Moving Forward
• Text Trail Effect

CSS

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Responsive Designs and CSS Custom Properties: Defining Variables and Breakpoints
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The CSS mental model by PPK
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The CSS Working Group agreed on adding many math functions
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Breaking Boxes With CSS Fragmentation by Rachel Andrew
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Recreating the Facebook Messenger Gradient Effect with CSS
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CSS selectors cheatsheet & details
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Lesser-known CSS properties in GIFs
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8 Little Videos About the Firefox Shape Path Editor
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Do CSS Custom Properties Beat Sass Loops?
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Look Ma, No Media Queries! Responsive Layouts Using CSS Grid

JavaScript

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JavaScript SEO: Welcome to a new series!
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How to write simple modern JavaScript apps with Webpack and progressive web techniques
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Releases: Apollo Client 2.5, Ember 3.8, GSAP 2.1
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Understanding a Performance Issue with “Polymorphic” JSON Data

Theory:
• The Complete Guide to Loops in JavaScript
• What's the longest keyword sequence in Javascript?
• Callbacks: The Definitive Guide

React:
• We migrated to Next.js to serve our home page 7.5× faster
• Improving Performance in React Functional Components using React.memo()
• How the “Golden Rule” of React components can help you write better code
• Writing Tests for React Applications Using Jest and Enzyme
• Redux explained in 1 minute
• 8 reasons to use styled-components

VueJS:
• Sliding In And Out Of Vue.js
• Creating Custom Directives in Vue.js
• One more example of abstract component in Vue.js

Angular:
• MVC in an Angular World
• Announcing Angular Loadable (ngx-loadable ~ 2.2kB)
• How to Transfer Files and Data Between Angular Clients and Node.js Backends

Libs & Plugins:
• FrenchKiss.js — a blazing fast lightweight i18n library written in JavaScript, working both in the browser and NodeJS environments. It provides a simple and really fast solution for handling internationalization.
• terser — A JavaScript parser and mangler/compressor toolkit for ES6+.
• cnbuilder — Yet another classname string builder
• Zero Server: zero configuration web framework
• npmf: fetch quick info of a npm pacakge using terminal

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Frontend Weekly Digest (25 Feb – 3 Mar 2019)