Mr Branding: Web Design Weekly #280

Monday, May 29, 2017

Web Design Weekly #280

Headlines

A Unified Styling Language

Mark Dalgleish shares some thoughts around the current CSS-in-JS landscape, why people do it, and why the CSS community should care. (medium.com)

DevTools: State of the Union 2017 (youtube.com)

UX teams learn from customers faster with NomNom

Get all your customer feedback and user research in one place. (nomnom.it)

Articles

Managing resources for large-scale testing

An interesting look into how engineers at Facebook can use a single API to communicate with a range of remote resources within their tests and other automated systems. (code.facebook.com)

Stuff at the Top of an SVG

Peter Nowell explains all that mysterious code at the top of an SVG file and some tips on when you can get rid of it. (medium.com)

HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road

It’s been a bit of an epic for Stack Overflow to go full-HTTPS. This post by Nick Craver shares the finer details of long journey. (nickcraver.com)

Enforcing CSS Syntax Style

Chris Coyier covers a selection of tools that you might find helpful to keep your codebase consistent. (css-tricks.com)

REST 2.0 Is Here and Its Name Is GraphQL

Throughout this article Michael Paris, looks at how you might tackle a few common use-cases with REST and GraphQL. (sitepoint.com)

Google IO 2017 – Web Development Notes

Some high level notes about this years Google IO. (last-child.com)

Tools / Resources

Create React App with an Express Backend

In this post Dave Ceddia explains how to set up a React app alongside an Express backend app, and wire up the UI to fetch some data from the backend. (daveceddia.com)