#frontend (26 links)
Frontend designers create the HTML, CSS, and presentational JavaScript code that powers web products’ user interfaces. I see frontend design as helpful mortar that bridges the gap between design and development.
- The Shifting Definition of Front-End Developer blog.salsitasoft.com
<blockquote>Angular and other big-iron web frameworks are not an affront to front-end devs. They are just the latest manifestion of a long-term trend: code moving from the server to the browser. Let's define "front-end" to mean the parts of the app relating to user interface, rather than those that happen to be running in the browser's JavaScript VM. If we assign tasks to our developers accordingly, we will see that the new world of single-page web apps is very much like the old one. Plus ça change...</blockquote>
- Front-end Tooling Workflows speakerdeck.com
- What it means to be a Front-end Developer in 2014 the-pastry-box-project.net
- front-end-ops smashingmagazine.com
_thenittygritty: Front-End Ops by @SlexAxton http://t.co/MUtey1gK2H
- Hoodie hood.ie
<blockquote>An architecture for frontend-only web apps.</blockquote>
- Hoodie: very fast web app development | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- Distilled Hype - Premium Links For Front-End Devs distilledhype.com
- 24 ways: Front-end Style Guides 24ways.org
- Front end standards yellowshoe.com.au
paul_irish: Love the excercise of documenting your group's frontend dev standards & practices. http://yellowshoe.com.au/standards by @markbrown4 is ace
- Molecular Voices » The best front-end development RSS feeds molecularvoices.molecular.com
- Perfection kills » Optimizing HTML perfectionkills.com
- Easy front-end framework easyframework.com
A CSS/HTML/JavaScript framework started as a personal project and then grew into something more. The idea behind it is to reduce the amount of time spent on setting up the basic master HTML template by reusing the same coding techniques.
- High Performance Web Sites :: Mobile Gmail and async script loading stevesouders.com
With mobile on my mind, I was blown away by the awesome performance tips in this blog post: Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series: Reducing Startup Latency. This post hits on the main point of my recent book - the impact of loading JavaScript. This is the #1 performance issue for today’s web apps.
- Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web - paulcarvill.com paulcarvill.com
"A [front end developer] is responsible for everything that sits on the client side of the web stack — the content, presentation and behaviour layers. Few other roles touch so many other key aspects of a business as does a [front end developer]’s." Amen to that.
"With limited influence, unlimited hands in the pie, a low barrier to critique, and the perception of triviality, frontend engineers are the janitors of software development. Rather than cleaning up trash, the boulder they toil beneath is skew: the distance between team member's conceptions of a project." Pies, pies, the sky is all pies.
You think of people who do know CSS as designers, not giving any credit to the engineering prowess required to tame the stylesheet of a multinational corporation because (self-taught as they are) most true front-end gurus don’t speak the same language as you do. Their skill appears to be a black-art, some kind of magic, or internalized instinct for browser flaws. This is your guess anyway, because you simply can’t communicate with them.
Bit of a scare-story headline but some decent points here.
- Opera Web Standards Curriculum opera.com
"A complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics." Great, but picked up a couple of things I disagree with already.
- The Yahoo! Juku » Yahoo! User Interface Blog yuiblog.com
"Front end web development has traditionally been viewed as rather "lightweight"engineering. Around the world, companies assumed that anyone could write HTML [...]". Yahoo's front-end engineering training.