2015's best front-end Web technology/dev links

A look back at the most popular links of 2015 Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 221 — January 6, 2016 A special issue looking back at the best of 2015. I hope you've had a great holiday season. As everyone is still warming up to 2016, we thought we'd look back at the most popular things we linked to in 2015. Enjoy! :-) - Peter Cooper, Editor The Art of Debugging (on the Web) Remy Sharp A ton of useful insights, tips, videos, and more, on debugging issues in Web apps, front end development, etc. 12 Little-Known CSS Facts (The Sequel) Louis Lazaris A followup to a previously successful 12 Little-Known CSS Facts. The Fetch API: The API That's So Fetching Mozilla Hacks A good introduction to the ‘Fetch API’, an API that aims to fix many of the problems with XMLHttpRequest (the core Ajax technology). Take a Look at Wijmo’s Angular 2 Proof of Concept Grapecity  Sponsored Learn Angular 2 concepts and understand how to use JavaScript controls in your AngularJS application. Follow Wijmo’s progress as they migrate their Angular 1 directives to Angular 2 components. Download and run Wijmo’s Angular 2 Explorer. The State of Front-End Tooling in 2015 Ashley Nolan Analysis of 1044 survey responses on CSS preprocessors, task runners, libraries. High Performance HTML Sam Dutton A look at how to write clean, concise HTML with the goal of having it load more quickly across a variety of devices. Introducing Material Design Lite Addy Osmani You can use Material Design Lite to bring a Material Design look and feel to your sites. It doesn’t rely on any JS frameworks and is optimized for cross-device use. The Trello CSS Guide Bobby Grace An eight part CSS guide providing some structure for writing CSS. The State of Web Components Mozilla Hacks Web Components were first introduced to the world at Google IO 2012 but are still considered on the cutting edge. Wilson Page of Mozilla looks at what Web Components are, why they’re useful, and why they’re still not everywhere. Jobs Principal Web Developer (Bristol, UK)Join MixRadio if you are an expert web developer with superior front-end skills. Help us improve our speed of execution and architecture. Use ReactJS and ES2015 on cross-disciplined teams to deliver the next best music streaming service. MixRadio Give back to the developer community - apply to teach today.Actively seeking web developers to join our tight knit family of passionate teachers and earn royalties. Pluralsight Get 10 offers from top tech companies in one week.Indeed Prime is an elite new program from Indeed.com that presents in-demand tech talent like you to top employers. Indeed Prime opens the door to exciting career opportunities with one simple application. Join today! Indeed In brief It's 2016: Time to Vote on Future Course Topics news Which courses on front-end, Node.js, etc. would you like to see? Vote on the topics most important to you.  Frontend Masters SPONSOR How to Use The HTML5 Sectioning Elements tutorial If you’re always tempted to turn to the trusty ‘div’ tag, this tutorial on using ‘main’, ‘article’, ‘section’, ‘nav’ and related tags may be useful.   Treehouse Blog Creating Well-Behaved Sites with the Page Visibility API tutorial  Smashing Magazine Checkbox Trickery with CSS tutorial  Will Boyd Push Notifications on the Web with Google Chrome tutorial  Dean Hume Build An HTML5 Game — And Distribute It tutorial  Mozilla Hacks 'I Think HTML Is Done' opinion “The W3C HTML Work­ing Group char­ter is ex­pir­ing; dis­cus­sion on what to do is in­con­clu­sive; things are pret­ty qui­et in the WhatWG. Con­clu­sion: The best thing to do about HTML is noth­ing.”   Tim Bray HTML6 and APIs as Natural Friends opinion  Paul Bruce How eBay's CSS Framework Helps Enforce Accessibility opinion  eBay Tech Blog Front-End Tools: Some Top Finds in 2015 tools  SitePoint Photoshop Design Space: An Alternative UI for Photoshop Built with HTML5 tools  Adobe The W3C Mobile Checker: Be Mobile Friendly tools  W3C PurifyCSS: Removes Unnecessary / Unused CSS tools  Kenny Tran Sequence.js: A Responsive CSS Animation Framework code  Ian Lunn The Single Tag Website code An interesting experiment to render a complete Web page off the back of using a single tag. A cute trick, at least.   CJ Johnson MUI: A Material Design-based CSS Framework code  MUI localFont: Using localStorage for Web Font Caching code  Jaime Caballero Discover 52 tips to improve your .NET performance tutorial Our new eBook features dozens of tips and tricks to boost your .NET performance. Download your free copy.  Red Gate Software SPONSOR Curated by Peter Cooper and published by Cooper Press. Want to post a job? E-mail us or use our self-serve system. Unsubscribe : Change email address : Read this issue on the Web Published by Cooper Press Ltd. Office 30, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK

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