ECMAScript 2015 And Writing JavaScript With A Longer View
A practical 2015 article about ES2015, and why the new JavaScript features mattered most when they made larger codebases easier to understand over time.
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DevelopmentHTTP/2 And The Performance Conversation Changing Shape HTTP/2 And The Performance Conversation Changing Shape
A practical article about HTTP/2 in 2015, and why front-end performance work was starting to move beyond simply reducing the number of requests.
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DevelopmentService Workers And The First Serious Conversation About Offline Web Pages Service Workers And The First Serious Conversation About Offline Web Pages
A 2015 reflection on service workers, offline behaviour and why web pages needed to start thinking more carefully about unreliable networks.
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DevelopmentReact Native And Component Thinking Moving Beyond The Browser React Native And Component Thinking Moving Beyond The Browser
A practical look at React Native in 2015, and why the interesting part was not only mobile development but the idea that interface thinking…
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DevelopmentAngularJS 1.3 And When Two-Way Binding Needed More Discipline AngularJS 1.3 And When Two-Way Binding Needed More Discipline
A practical look at AngularJS 1.3, richer client-side interfaces and why two-way binding needed structure once applications started becoming more serious.
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DevelopmentReact 0.12 And Components Starting To Feel Less Strange React 0.12 And Components Starting To Feel Less Strange
A practical look at React 0.12, JSX, component thinking and why the idea of building interfaces from self-contained pieces was starting to make more…
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DevelopmentHTML5 Becoming Official And What That Meant In Real Projects HTML5 Becoming Official And What That Meant In Real Projects
A practical look at HTML5 becoming a W3C Recommendation in 2014 and why the moment mattered even though developers had already been using many…
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DevelopmentWordPress 4.0 And Making Content Management Feel More Polished WordPress 4.0 And Making Content Management Feel More Polished
A practical look at WordPress 4.0 and why improvements to writing, media management and plugin discovery mattered for real client websites.