Bootstrap 3 And The Shift To Mobile-First Front-End Design
A practical 2013 look at Bootstrap 3, mobile-first layout and the need to use front-end frameworks without letting them make every website look the…
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DevelopmentReact And The Strange Idea Of Thinking In Components React And The Strange Idea Of Thinking In Components
A 2013 view of React, JSX and the move towards building interfaces as small pieces of behaviour rather than separating markup and interaction too…
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DevelopmentGrunt And The Front-End Build Process Becoming Normal Grunt And The Front-End Build Process Becoming Normal
A practical look at why front-end task runners started to matter in 2013, and how Grunt changed the way repeated build steps were handled…
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DevelopmentWordPress 3.5 And The Moment Media Management Started To Feel Serious WordPress 3.5 And The Moment Media Management Started To Feel Serious
A 2012 article about WordPress 3.5, the new media workflow and why admin experience matters when clients manage their own websites every day.
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DevelopmentTypeScript And The First Signs JavaScript Needed More Structure TypeScript And The First Signs JavaScript Needed More Structure
A practical reaction to TypeScript’s first public release in 2012 and what it said about the growing complexity of JavaScript applications.
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DevelopmentjQuery 1.8 And The Need To Treat JavaScript With More Care jQuery 1.8 And The Need To Treat JavaScript With More Care
A 2012 article about jQuery’s continued usefulness, the release of jQuery 1.8 and the need to structure front-end behaviour more carefully as websites became…
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DesignDesigning For Retina Displays Without Making Websites Heavy Designing For Retina Displays Without Making Websites Heavy
A practical article about high-density screens in 2012, sharper assets and the new performance decisions designers and developers had to make.
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DevelopmentFront-End Build Tools And The Work We Were Repeating By Hand Front-End Build Tools And The Work We Were Repeating By Hand
A 2012 view of front-end build tools, linting and CSS processing, and why the repeated setup work on websites was starting to need a…
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DevelopmentBootstrap 2 And The Start Of Reusable Responsive Interfaces Bootstrap 2 And The Start Of Reusable Responsive Interfaces
A practical look at why Bootstrap 2 felt important in 2012, not just because it shipped components, but because it made repeated front-end decisions…
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DevelopmentAjax Interfaces And The Need For Better State Management Ajax Interfaces And The Need For Better State Management
A practical article about how Ajax interfaces created better experiences, but also forced developers to think more carefully about state, history and recovery.