Let’s make 2021… fast! An annual front-end performance checklist with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and front-end techniques. Updated since 2016.
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Let’s make 2021… fast! An annual front-end performance checklist, with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and CSS/JavaScript techniques.
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Progressive web applications are proven to raise user engagement and keep the costs down effectively. Building a modern PWA requires more than just the core setup to keep up with the user’s expectations. Therefore, let’s take a first-hand look at adding contemporary characteristics to PWAs, from functioning offline to user-friendly permission requests.
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It can be a daunting world for folks who aren’t familiar with SEO (and even those who are at times), so we’ve decided to publish a checklist that breaks down the key factors when stumbling upon those tedious search engine optimization issues. You can even download it as a PDF and print it out whenever you like!
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Being able to run Google’s Lighthouse analysis suite programmatically provides a lot of advantages, especially for larger or more complex web applications. Using Lighthouse programmatically allows engineers to set up quality monitoring for sites that need more customization than straightforward applications of Lighthouse (such as Lighthouse CI) allow. This article contains a brief introduction to Lighthouse, discusses the advantages of running it programmatically, and walks through a basic configuration.
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In this article, Precious Ndubueze will be taking an in-depth look at what Django brings to the table by understanding what the generated files and folder do, this will give us a better understanding of the Django framework. It’s important to know that it will not be possible to take a look at everything happening inside of Django. For cases outside the scope of this tutorial, there will be links to point you to resources that will help with that. Today, Precious will guide you through understanding Django’s pre-built commands, files and basics.
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Since React was introduced, it has transformed the way front-end developers build web applications, and its virtual DOM is famous for effectively rendering components. In this tutorial, Shedrack Akintayo will discuss various methods of optimizing performance in React applications, and also the features of React that we can use to improve performance.
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Front-end developers and designers create amazing static assets for web applications. Today, Philip Kiely will be focusing on what happens after the style hotfix or beautiful graphic you just finished is pushed to master. He’ll also investigate handling files that users upload, called media files. Together, you’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving these files to users worldwide in a secure, performant, and cost-effective manner.
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When using cross-platform frameworks, people might forget the nuances of each of the platforms they want their code to run on. This article aims to address that. Today, Carmine Zaccagnino is going to see some of those differences and how to overcome them. More specifically, he’re going to talk about storage and UI differences, which are the ones that most often cause confusion to developers when writing Flutter code that they want to be cross-platform.
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Performance is a competitive advantage that can bring and retain customers. We can’t afford regularly spending time optimizing apps all over again. It’s costly, and complex. As a first step in coming up with a solution for any problem, we need to make the problem visible. In this article, Anton Nemtsev will help you with exactly that It’s not enough to optimize an application. You need to prevent performance from degradation, and the first step to do it is to make performance changes visible. In this article, Anton Nemtsev shows a couple of ways of showing them in the GitLab merge requests.
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