Frontend Weekly Digest (26 August — 1 September 2019)

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

• Get started with GPU Compute on the Web. Author is playing with the experimental WebGPU API
• Frontend Development is Dead. Long Live Frontend Engineering!
• npm bans terminal ads
• How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage

• Tools:
  • pwa-asset-generator: based on Puppeteer, automatically generates icons and splash screens guided by Web App Manifest specs and Apple Human Interface guidelines.
  • Working with front-end tools on Linux and Windows: the grand performance test
  

• Accessibility:
  • How to Accessibly Split Text
  • An Introduction to Accessibility Testing
  

• Animations:
  • A Glassy (and Classy) Text Effect
  • Color this sofa! – SVG + Blend Mode trick
  

CSS

• Creating a Maintainable Icon System with Sass
• New & Experimental CSS Tools in Firefox
• Can you rotate the cursor in CSS?
• Styling Links with Real Underlines

JavaScript

• The Best JavaScript Meme I've Ever Seen, Explained in detail
• Drag & Drop Elements with Vanilla JavaScript and HTML
• JavaScript Alternatives!
• Announcing Dojo 6
• How JavaScript Grew Up and Became a Real Language
• Boilerplate Vanilla JS Content Slider
• JavaScript Classes. An In-Depth look. Part 1.
• A Practical Guide to Symbols in JavaScript

• TypeScript:
  • Announcing TypeScript 3.6
  • Publishing a TypeScript Library
  

• React:
  • The story of a V8 performance cliff in React
  • How to setup ESLint and Prettier for your React apps
  • Optimizing Performance in React 16.8
  • JavaScript to Know for React
  • React Push notifications (with hooks)
  • Best Practices for Unit Testing in React Version 16
  

• VueJS:
  • VeeValidate 3.0 has been released
  • Demystifying the v-model Directive in Vue
  • Knowing What To Test — Vue Component Unit Testing
  • Vue data flow — How it works?
  • VuePress: Documentation Made Easy
  • Hooks are coming to Vue.js version 3.0
  • How To Use Async and Await to Chain Promises
  

• Angular:
  • Angular Localization Using ngx-translate
  • Front End Architecture for Angular Applications
  • Why you should choose Angular for your next front-end project
  • Angular Tools for High Performance
  • SOLID: The Dependency Inversion Principle in Angular
  

Browsers

• The Baseline Interpreter: a faster JS interpreter in Firefox 70
• Update on removing Flash from Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer

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