Frontend Weekly Digest #127 (7–13 October 2019)

Web-development

• Interview with a Pornhub Web Developer
• Cascading Cache Invalidation
• A Breakdown of HTML Usage Across ~8 Million Pages (& What It Means for Modern SEO)
• Some Hands-On with the HTML Dialog Element
• Difference between font formats
• Turn Your Website into a PWA
• The W3C At Twenty-Five

• Performance
  • Images done right: Web graphics, good to the last byte
  • Recipes for Performance Testing Single Page Applications in WebPageTest
• Accessibility
  • Supreme Court hands victory to blind man who sued Domino’s over site accessibility
  • Accessibility: Web Links Should Be Links, and Web Buttons Should Be Buttons
  • What the Heck is ARIA? A Beginner’s Guide to ARIA for Accessibility
• Effects
  • Inspirational Websites Roundup #9
  • legendary-cursor — Makes your cursor’s swings legendary
  • Creating a Water-like Distortion Effect with Three.js

CSS

• Introducing Sass Modules
• Clipping, Clipping, and More Clipping!
• Patterns for Practical CSS Custom Properties Use
• CSS Circles
• Powerful New CSS for Styling Bullets, Numbers, and List Markers
• A Guide To New And Experimental CSS DevTools In Firefox
• The Module System is Launched
• Can we please style the select control?!
• Toucaan — Rethinking CSS Frameworks.

JavaScript

• How to Detect an Ad Blocker
• Make a JavaScript Facial Recognition App that Works Like the Ones in the Movies
• JavaScript Broughlike Tutorial
• JavaScript Naming Conventions

• Theory
  • Top-level await
  • Understanding This, Bind, Call, and Apply in JavaScript
  • When to Use Map instead of Plain JavaScript Object
  • JavaScript Promises: Zero To Hero Plus Cheat Sheet
  • The Complete Guide to Using Arrays in JavaScript
  • The tale of three dots in Javascript
• React
  • Introducing Create Next App
  • Part 1 : React Interview Questions
  • The Ultimate Guide to Next.js Authentication with Auth0
  • How to Implement Idle Timeout in React
  • Using JSX for your own lightweight declarative UI library
• Vue
  • Create a Vue.js component library as a module (Part 1)
  • Instant Search With Vue.js and Axios
  • Vue-next and why Maps solve a big problem
  • How to Share Vue Components Between Applications
  • Decouple Vue.js components from the Vuex Store
  • Managing SVG images in Vue.js applications
  • Build a Real-Time Polling Application Using Vue and Socket.io
• Angular
  • What’s inside Angular 8?
  • Migrate Angular 8 from TSLint to ESLint
  • Requests tracking in Angular application with child module injectors without lazy loading
• Ember
  • Ember-engines: the what, what not and why? — Part 1
  • On {{mut}} and 2-Way-Binding
  • Promises and UI states in Ember.js
  • Ember and GraphQL: A Quick Example
• Libs & Plugins
  • roughViz — Reusable JavaScript library for creating sketchy/hand-drawn styled charts in the browser.
  • How To Do JavaScript Localization With jQuery.i18n
  • is-website-vulnerable — finds publicly known security vulnerabilities in a website’s frontend JavaScript libraries