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TypeScript vs. PureScript

There are many ways to skin a cat, and for each one, there is a statically typed language that compiles to JavaScript. Among the...
Hernan Rajchert
13 min read

CSS selectors level 4

Selectors are a core part of CSS. They allow you to do things like select all the elements of a certain type: div {...
Esteban Herrera
10 min read

Pattern matching and type safety in TypeScript

I think it’s fair to say that most programmers understand type safety as a feature of the programming language which eliminates the type errors....
Michal Zalecki
4 min read

Firefox DevTools for CSS authors

If you’re a developer, chances are there’s a set of tools you hold near and dear to your heart, and of course, any browser...
Dennis Gaebel
10 min read

3 ways everyone breaks their website’s focus state

No mouse? You’re in serious trouble. Like many things that are incredibly important, accessibility is by no means easy. Not because it’s a mystery or...
Benjamin Johnson
6 min read

New horizons in CSS: Houdini and the Paint API

The way we write CSS is about to change. No, I don’t mean you have to change how you write your styles, but we...
Una Kravets
7 min read

A comprehensive look back at front end in 2018

Grab a coffee, settle in, and read slow. Our review doesn’t miss much.
Kaelan Cooter
11 min read

Implicit state sharing: React’s context API & provide/inject in…

Imagine you are creating an accordion component that you want to distribute publicly through an npm package. You would like the user of this...
Jonathan Harrell
3 min read

History of front-end frameworks

A history of front-end frameworks including Semantic UI and others.
Michael Wanyoike
7 min read

How to best use Sinon with Chai

A guide on using Sinon and Chai to write unit tests for code with external dependencies.
Leighton Wallace
4 min read

It’s 2018 — you shouldn’t be writing vanilla CSS

A common mistake among developers is to give less importance (often, none at all) to styling when compared to other parts of their codebase....
Alcides Queiroz
10 min read

What makes ReasonML so great?

What exactly is ReasonML? ReasonML is a syntax extension for the OCaml language created by Facebook. Rather than creating an entirely new language, the...
Benjamin Johnson
8 min read