Frontend Weekly Digest (19 – 25 August 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

• amp-script: AMP JS
• What HTML6 really needs (Living standard)
• Optional HTML: Everything You Need to Know
• Announcing NodeGUI and React NodeGUI — Build native desktop apps with Javascript and CSS

• Performance:
  • Faster Image Loading With Embedded Image Previews
  • Using rel=”preconnect” to establish network connections early and increase performance
  

• API:
  • Text to speech in the browser with the Web Speech API
  • The Native File System API: Simplifying access to local files
  

• Accessibility:
  • What Tumblr Taught Me About Accessibility
  • Midyear ADA Web & App Accessibility Lawsuit Report. «The rate of lawsuits filed in federal courts related to website and app accessibility has now hit a rate of one-an-hour, that’s 8 a day, 40 per week and set to be on pace for over 2,000 lawsuits again this year.»
  • Top 5 Resources for Web App Accessibility
  

• Practice:
  • Multiplayer Tic Tac Toe with GraphQL
  • How To Build A Real-Time Multiplayer Virtual Reality Game (Part 1)
  • The Making of an Animated Favicon
  
  

CSS

• Where did CSS named colours come from?
• Here’s a List of Top CSS Front-End libraries
• Can you view print stylesheets applied directly in the browser?
• Bounce Element Around Viewport in CSS
• CSS Can Do This… And It's Terrifying!

JavaScript

• Use JavaScript Generator Functions to Reduce Memory Utilization
• Using Native JavaScript Modules in Production Today
• Debouncing and Throttling in JavaScript
• JS: Things To Learn To Become Senior

• React:
  • React: Building an accessible FAQ component
  • 5 Tips to Help You Avoid React Hooks Pitfalls
  • Localization with React
  • Using requestAnimationFrame with React Hooks
  • Modern React testing, part 2: Jest and Enzyme
  • The state of semantic JSX
  

• VueJS:
  • How to load dynamic images in Vue and Nuxt with ease
  • Vue.js Router Performance
  • How to Use Vuetify in Vue.js
  • How to avoid SOLID principles violations in Vue. JS application
  

• Angular:
  • 7 Ways to Make Your Angular App More Accessible
  • Angular Search & Pagination
  • Why you should never use function calls in Angular template expressions
  

• Ember:
  • Ember.js and React.js: Comparisons between some of the advanced features
  • The Ember Atlas — A place for all things Ember: processes, best practices, upgrade guides, and more!
  • Making an Electron App with Ember JS
  • Commit Porto '19: Thriving through the hype cycle: an Ember.js story (Ricardo Mendes)
  

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