Wednesday, January 24, 2018

#324: Bootstrap 4 Released, Firefox 58 Arrives

Frontend Focus
Issue 324 — January 24, 2018
After a lengthy beta, the final release of the fourth version of popular frontend toolkit Bootstrap is here. No breaking changes.
Mark Otto, Jacob Thornton, and Bootstrap contributors

As a kid, did you ever cut out pictures from magazines and create collages? Do the same on the Web with this neat technique.
Mikael Ainalem

A beautiful dive into the most modern way to lazy-load resources and defer any functionality based upon an element’s visibility to users: using the Intersection Observer API.
Smashing Magazine

JavaScript telemetry provides a timeline of browser events leading to an error, including UI interactions, clicks, inputs, console logs and more. Debug better with telemetry and know why your web app crashed.
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The first post-Quantum release continues to boost performance with ‘Off-Main-Thread Painting’ and streaming WebAssembly compilation, plus support for font-display. Enjoy the point-by-point summary for developers.
Mozilla Hacks

A free course focused on getting you up to speed on Flexbox as quickly as possible using novel, interactive code-driven screencasts.
Scrimba

The CSS Paint API lets us programmatically generate images whenever CSS properties expect them.
Google Developers

Firefox 58 includes a 2-tiered compiler, boasting a huge speedup for WebAssembly users.
Lin Clark

A cute way to see if CSS selectors are being used in unanticipated places (such as forgotten pages on legacy sites).
Harry Roberts

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In Brief

Wes Bos Launches New CSS Grid Course news
Already very popular and it’s free.
Wes Bos

jQuery 3.3.0 Released news
Timmy Willison

CSS Scroll Snap: What Is It, and Do We Need It? tutorial
A pretty thorough introduction.
Dennis Gaebel

Make Your Site Faster with Preconnect Hints tutorial
With preconnect hints, reduce request latency and make your site faster.
Jeremy Frank

You Didn't Become a Front-End Developer to Fuss with a Database 
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Lessons Learned Making Our App with Web Components story
Ada Rose Cannon

Should You Use CSS or JavaScript for Web Animations? opinion
How you can use both to produce smooth animations for your site.
Zell Liew

Frontend in 2018: More Consensus, Less Complexity opinion
Kaelan Cooter

Designing for 4-Sided Viewports with CSS Grid video
Jen Simmons

The New Generation of Project Management Tools Is Here and It’s Visual tools
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CSS Gridish: A Tool to Help Your Team Adapt CSS Grid Today tools
James Y Rauhut (IBM Design)

Adele: A Repository Of Design Systems and Pattern Libraries tools
Marcin Treder

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lit: The World's Smallest Responsive CSS Framework? code
Packs a fair bit into 400 bytes.
Arham Jain

26 CSS Arrow Examples from CodePen code
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#191: Designing for Mobile Performance

Mobile Dev Weekly January 24, 2018   #191
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Google Using Page Speed in Mobile Search Ranking — Starting in July 2018, page speed will be a ranking factor for mobile searches.
Zhiheng Wang and Doantam Phan
Peter Cooper recommends
Unifying The Mobile Onboarding Experience at Uber — How the engineering team at Uber unified their onboarding experience, making it easier for users to get started.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
Designing for Mobile Performance — Mustafa Kurtuldu mulls over the topic of performance, both perceived and measured, for users of mobile devices.
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Holly Schinsky recommends
Top 7 Mobile App Development Trends 2018 — Find out what to expect for mobile app development trends in 2018.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
Processing Forms on AMP Pages with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda — Learn how to implement and process forms on your AMP pages using Python and Amazon services for serverless apps.
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Peter Cooper recommends
The iOS Economy, Updated — A look at the numbers behind the iOS app ecosystem. iOS devs earned over 25 billion through the App Store last year.
Horace Dediu
Brian Rinaldi recommends
State of Mobile: With Captive Mobile Audiences, New App Growth Stagnates — A look at the current state of mobile app usage, form factor distribution and manufacturer distribution based on Flurry’s data.
Flurry Blog
Mobile Web
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Why Progressive Web Apps Are the Future of Web Development — An overview of PWAs arguing for more adoption.
Tushar Agrawal
Holly Schinsky recommends
Must-Use Tools to Build Better Progressive Web Apps
Suresh Kumar
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Creating a Drop-Down Menu for Mobile Pages — How to create and animate a hamburger menu icon and then attach an event listener through jQuery for triggering a drop-down menu.
Dogacan Bilgili
Hybrid Apps
Holly Schinsky recommends
Aurelia Framework7 — A lightweight framework that combines Aurelia, Framework7, Webpack and Cordova for building hybrid apps.
Alexander Flenniken
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Quick Example of Apache Cordova and Vue.js — A quick example of how to use Vue with Cordova.
Raymond Camden
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Capacitor: Build Cross-Platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and The Web — Ionic’s new library and runtime for hybrid apps that can be a drop-in replacement for Cordova.
Ionic
Holly Schinsky recommends
Using Vue with Ionic 4 and Ionic Native Plugins
Matthieu Drula
Holly Schinsky recommends
Displaying a PhoneGap App Correctly on the iPhone X
Matt Netkow
Chris Brandrick recommends
Adding CAPTCHA to Ionic with Node.js Middleware — How to add Google’s reCAPTCHA service to an Ionic app.
Josh Morony
Native Development
Brian Rinaldi recommends
How to Become a React Native Developer in 2018 — General tips and resources for anyone curious about learning React Native.
Spencer Carli
Holly Schinsky recommends
What I Learned from Cloning the Uber App — Lessons learned from building a clone of the Uber App.
Shai Almog
Brian Rinaldi recommends
A Few Things I Like About React Native, And A Few I Don't — From the perspective of a native Android developer.
Andrzej Zabost
Chris Brandrick recommends
SmileToUnlock: Make Users Smile To Open An App — Uses ARKit Face Tracking.
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Protecting Your Money Online - #infographic

From phishing attacks via email, to cyber scams on dating sites and social media, the internet can often leave you financially vulnerable. Follow the infographic checklist to make sure your money is more secure online.

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How to Easily Create Marketing Videos From Images

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