September 6, 2021 — After almost five years in development, the new HTTP/3 protocol is nearing its final form. In this part 3, Robin Marx will look at how to practically use and deploy QUIC and HTTP/3, by looking at most best practices and lessons learned from HTTP/2. You’ll discuss that it might take a while before off-the-shelf web server packages provide full HTTP/3 support, and how most major browsers have HTTP/3 support, even enabled by default. Let’s take a close look at the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3, and how and if you should change your websites and resources as well. Read more…

September 3, 2021 — Websites, unfortunately, aren’t as environmentally friendly as we might like them to be. In this article, Berwyn Powell takes a look at his experience in trying to make websites better for the environment. Hopefully, this will give you some ideas for things to try on your own websites. It can be quite disheartening to run a page through the Website Carbon Calculator and be told that it could be emitting hundreds of kilograms of CO2 a year. Fortunately, the sheer size of the web can amplify positive changes as well as negative ones, and even small improvements soon add up on websites with thousands of visitors a week. Read more…

September 2, 2021 — There are plenty of interactive ways to learn new web development skills. We learn better by playing games. So we’ve collected interactive coding tools and games to help you learn CSS, JavaScript, SQL, React, Vim, regular expressions, Jamstack and pretty much everything in-between. Louis shares a comprehensive, categorized list of such tools covering a variety of different development technologies. Read more…

September 1, 2021 — What exactly is a displacement filter? In this article, Dirk Weber will be diving into one of the most spectacular filter effects: the SVG feDisplacementMap filter primitive. In order to make it all easier to digest, Dirk has divided the article into three parts in which you’ll be exploring how the feDisplacementMap works, methods to create fancy displacement maps in SVG, and methods to animate the filter and create dramatic visual effects. Read more…

August 31, 2021 — By combining some React APIs, we can accurately manage “simple” states. With Next.js though, we can quickly find situations where we need to accommodate many other requirements. This article is intended to be used as a primer for managing complex states in a Next.js app. These strategies should fit the vast majority of apps around with little to no adjustments. Let’s have a look at some patterns to accomplish all that. Read more…

August 31, 2021 — New month, new wallpapers! In this post, you’ll find inspiring wallpaper designs for September 2021. They were created with love by artists and designers from across the globe and are available with and without a calendar. Enjoy! Read more…

August 30, 2021 — Refactored codebase should result in similar or improved performance and improved codebase health. After all, if deploying the refactored codebase causes loading or performance issues, it will result in less traffic and revenue. Luckily, there are many optimization techniques we can apply to tackle potential file size and performance issues. Read more…

August 27, 2021 — A compound component is one of the advanced patterns of React which makes use of an interesting way to communicate the relationship between UI components and share implicit state by leveraging an explicit parent-child relationship. In this article, Ichoku Chinoso will show you one of the advanced patterns of React which is the compound component pattern. It’s an awesome method to build reusable components in React by using the compound component pattern to build your component offers you a lot of flexibility in your component. Read more…

August 26, 2021 — As a community, we can each work to improve our own little corners of the Web. But, collectively, we can do better. We can improve the Web and make it a better platform for privacy. The Web is still wrestling with issues we take for granted offline, privacy chief among them. These are steps The New York Times took to protect users’ data, and how you can too. Read more…

August 25, 2021 — There is no “best” solution, only solutions that might work better depending on the context. The multi-monorepo approach is not suitable to every kind of project or team.  In this article, Leonardo explains how to use a “multi-monorepo” approach for making the development experience faster, yet keeping your PHP packages private. This solution can be especially beneficial for PRO plugin creators. Read more…