CategoryFrameworks

May 12, 2022 — Google collects performance information from millions of opted-in Chrome browsers around the world and uses this information as a performance ranking factor for its search engine. But it also makes this information freely available so that anyone can use it to check the real-world performance of individual websites. Even more significantly, it’s possible to segment this data according to the technologies used in the websites. In this article, Dan Shappir leverages this information to analyze and compare the performance of leading JavaScript frameworks. Along the way, he uncovers unexpected behaviors and solves a web performance mystery. Read more…

May 3, 2022 — Developers often reach for UI frameworks like Bootstrap or Material UI, hoping that they’ll save a bunch of time and quickly build a professional-looking app. Unfortunately, things rarely work out this way. In this article, Josh Comeau is going to make his case for why you probably don’t need these tools. He’ll also share some of his go-to strategies for building professional-looking applications without a design background. Read more…

March 25, 2022 — In the past months, there have been lots of talks dedictaed to Remix. Routing is not only one of the things that sets it apart from other frameworks, but it also fuels great performance and improves the overall experience for developers. Let’s dig in to all of the features that build up routing in this powerful framework. Read more…

February 21, 2022 — Automated testing can give you much confidence in merging your changes, especially in extensive refactoring or working with your teammates. As a result, you might have thought about including testing as part of your build routine to get the most value out of it. Don’t know where to start? Let’s implement your testing pipeline together from scratch. Read more…

February 4, 2022 — rameworks provide convenient ways to achieve complicated tasks, and they have benefits beyond technical ones, such as aligning a group of developers to a particular style and pattern. The web platform offers many choices, and adopting a framework gets everyone at least partially on the same page for some of those choices. In this second part, Noam suggests a few patterns of how to use the web platform directly as an alternative to some of the solutions that are offered by frameworks. Read more…

January 28, 2022 — In this article, Noam Rosenthal dives deep into a few technical features that are common across frameworks, and explains how some of the different frameworks implement them and what they cost, focusing on data-binding, reactivity, conditionals and lists. You will also take a look at the cost of using those frameworks. Read more…

December 27, 2021 — Have you already built and published a Gatsby theme? In this article, Paulina Hetman explains how Gatsby themes work and what problems they can solve by comparing Gatsby themes with their WordPress counterparts. Read more…

October 23, 2021 — Quasar is an open-source Vue.js-based cross-platform framework that allows you, as a developer, to easily build apps for both desktop and mobile using technologies such as Cordova and Electron and writing your code once. The app we’ll build will store and get its data from Firebase, meaning that we will also be seeing how to use Firebase in Quasar. Read more…

August 18, 2021 — In this article, we will code a Gantt chart as a reusable Web component. We will focus on the architecture of the component, rendering the calendar with CSS Grid and managing the state of the draggable tasks with JavaScript Proxy Objects. Read more…

July 27, 2021 — Next.js has strong opinions about how to organize JavaScript but not CSS. How can we develop patterns that encourage best CSS practices while also following the framework’s logic? The answer is surprisingly simple — to write well-structured CSS that balances global and local styling concerns. In this article, Alexander Dubovoy will build a website (a tea shop!) to demonstrate these patterns. Read more…