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


• en What’s new in Foundation 6
• en Revisiting the rendering tier: Introducing the new rendering layer for theguardian.com
• en Native image lazy-loading for the web!
• en Web Components will replace your frontend framework
• en Can I Stop? Free yourself from Internet Explorer 11 in places where (almost) nobody uses it.
• en Evaluating Popular Web Browsers in Terms of Security and Privacy



CSS


• en CSSBattle — CSS code-golfing is here: use your CSS skills to replicate targets with smallest possible code.
• en What Does Dark Mode’s “supported-color-schemes” Actually Do?
• en Ruby Sass Has Reached End-Of-Life
• en Managing Z-Index In A Component-Based Web Application
• en video CSS Standardization — The State of the Web, with Rick Viscomi and Jen Simmons (CSS Working Group, Mozilla)
• en How to create better themes with CSS variables
• en The Hidden Power of CSS Text Align

JavaScript


• en What’s the big deal with TypeScript?
• en Yet Another JavaScript Framework
• en Remy Sharp: How I failed the <a>
• en JavaScript Web Workers: A Beginner’s Guide
• en How to use Axios with JavaScript
• en From Javascript to Typescript to Elm
• en Why you should learn vanilla JavaScript in isolation if you want to be a better developer






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