The digest of fresh materials from the world of the frontend for the last week №244 (January 2 - 8, 2017)

We offer to your attention a selection with links to useful resources and interesting materials from the frontend area.

Web development

CSS

Javascript

Browsers

Entertaining

Web development

• Here you are, grandmother, and namespaces
• Learning web development in 2017 is much easier than you think.
• 10 web forecasts for 2017
• Migrating to Webpack @ 2
• About the importance of specifying encoding for HTML characters
• Orthogonality and “CSS in JS”
• Improve your website availability with WAI-ARIA
• Migration of frontend build system to Webpack
• The difference between AMP and responsive web design
• Web obesity is not a problem of knowledge
• xvg - Chrome extension for visual debugging of curves in SVG
• Creating your own HTML5 Video player and Shadow DOM

CSS

• CSS Evolution: From CSS, SASS, BEM, CSS Modules to Styled Components
• How I destroyed the performance of my blog using CSS Background-Blend-Modes
• CSS Grid is coming
• 20 short videos to help you learn Grid Layout
• We are trying to understand the support for CSS in Gmail (after the last update)
• Solving problems supporting responsive design in Gmail
• The implementation of the inclined edges at the same angle in CSS
• Flexible Boxes - another visual flexbox generator
• bttn.css is a cute effect button generator
• PostCSS: Sass's New Play Date
• EM vs REM vs PX - why you should not use only pixels
• Twenty Best CSS Animations on CodeCanyon
• Adding Box Shadow (z-depths) to Angular Material 2 Components

Javascript

• NativeScript, what kind of beast and what is it for?
• JavaScript everywhere [infographics]
• 3 JavaScript libraries to follow in 2017
• best practices of clean code when writing javascript code
• How my ten year old son learned javascript
• Demystification Babel and ES6
• ES2015 JavaScript vs. Elm vs. TypeScript
• Bridging the gap between Elm and JavaScript with TypeScript
• Simple web payment: presenting Payment Request API
• JSX best and worst
• Lazy-loading jQuery with a webpack only when you need it
• Signing and publishing JavaScript modules with Flow
• BunnyJS - Browser ES6 framework
  
  
• Interviews:
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  • Master the JavaScript Interview: What is functional programming?
  • React Interview Questions
  • Three questions to prepare for before a JavaScript interview
  • Questions and answers at Node.js interviews (Version 2017)
  
  
• React:
  
  
  • Good practices: why you should use javascript with React Native wherever possible
  • Creating an application on React.js with User Login and Authentication
  • Introducing React Reform , a tool for creating themes for your forms.
  • Five deadly fingers of death. Master these five concepts, then master the React.
  • Critical thinking about Redux in your application
  
  
• Vue:
  
  
  • Vue.js 2: quick start tutorial in 2017
  • Vue.js 2: a collection of small tips
  
  
• Angular:
  
  
  • Angular 1.6 is already here: all you need to know (Angular 1.6 is here: you need to know)
  
  
• Libs & Plugins:
  
  
  • table-dragger - adding the ability to drag-and-drop sorting in your tables without jQuery
  • trae - minimalistic browser HTTP client for data retrieval based on Fetch API
  • jQuery print plugins
  • Diffy.js - a library for defining motion for browsers, without dependencies
  • flatpickr - library for the component of date selection without dependencies
  • Inferno is a very fast library for creating modern user interfaces, similar to React

Browsers

• Browsers: time to sum up 2016
• Google Chrome marks secure HTTPS sites

News and entertaining

• "Why I refused to work at Apple"
• The blog platform Medium refused to advertise, but didn’t think up how to make money without it
• Results of 2016: Is there a future for wearable electronics?
• We will return the computing fan!
• The ranking of the brightest entrepreneurs under the age of 30 from Forbes includes the creators of Prisma, MSQRD and GitLab
• Slack, Airbnb, Dropbox and other IPO bidders in 2017 according to VentureBeat
• Results of 2016 for Microsoft
• What have we learned from last year’s biggest mistakes of technology companies?
• Adobe more than doubled the cost of Creative Cloud subscription
• Snapchat fired employee accused the company of overstating data on the number of users on the eve of the IPO
• Languages ​​in which code is actively written on GitHub
• Cribs on data processing algorithms

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