The digest of fresh materials from the world of the frontend for the last week №345 (December 24 - 30, 2018)

We bring to your attention the latest compilation this year with links to new materials from and around the front end.

Media | Web Development | CSS | Javascript | Browsers | Entertaining

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Media

• Podcast “Web Standards”, Issue # 153: Community in Astana, YouTube vs Edge, Android and PWA, images, offline and service workers, CSS directly from specs, full-stack as a unicorn
• Podcast "Five Minutes Angular" # 14 - More groups and channels, Optimization, StackBlitz, RxJS puzzle, NGX
• Podcast "Frontend Weekend" # 85 - Dmitry Makhnev about working at Odnoklassniki and the nuances of conference preparation
• Podcast "Frontend Youth (18+)" New Year Stream Frontend Youth
• Podcast "CSSSR", News 512 - New Year's special edition
• "ALL YOUR HTML" # s2e3: "Snowflakes, canvas-sketch"

Web development

• Frontend-2018: year results
• Questions to the candidate for the position of front-end developer
• WebP today: why and how?
• Create an offline page for your site.
• A comprehensive look at the front-end in 2018
• We create a website like in 1998
• We create a website like in 2018
• Understanding the Virtual DOM
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• Performance:
  • Getting Started with Web Productivity: A Beginner's Guide 2019
  • Improve the perceived performance of your web application
  • Gradient Placeholders for Images
  

• PWA:
  • Creating PWA in just 10 minutes
  • Siri Shortcuts for creating PWA and Web App Manifest icons
  • My wish list for progressive web apps in 2019
  • Will PWAs replace native mobile apps?
  

• Tools:
  • Fiddly - Create beautiful and simple HTML pages from your Readme.md files
  • Webpack: 0 to auto test
  

• Animation:
  • Three-dimensional presentation of products on THREE.js for the smallest
  • A selection of cool demos for 2018
  

CSS

• Grid Layout as the basis of modern layouts
• Pure CSS Underline Link Animation
• Initial implementation of clip-path: path ();
• How to create an image gallery with CSS Grid
• CSS Gradient Borders
• Common CSS issues for front-end projects

Javascript

• 19 ideas for Node.js developers who want to grow above themselves in 2019
• Principles of functional programming in JavaScript
• JS 2018 results and forecasts for the future
• Taming data with javascript
• How to perform web scraping with Node.js
• Understanding Throttling and Debouncing

• React:
  • End React Components
  • React Hooks: what will happen to my tests?
  • How to customize third-party components in React
  • React test review in 2019
  • Questions for an interview on React / Redux
  • Manage Web Audio with React and Redux Middleware
  

• Angular:
  • Statistics of the Russian-speaking community Angular for 2018
  • How we updated the website with half a billion users a year to Angular 7 in less than a day
  • Having fun with mixins in Angular
  • Quicklink - New Angular Preloading Strategy
  • 404 Angular Smart Page
  

• VueJS:
  • How I work with Vue in 2019: TypeScript and TSX
  • How to create a BookSearch application using Vue.js and ElasticSearch
  

• Libs & Plugins:
  • Shortcuts JS - Creating Apple Shortcuts with JavaScript
  • Magic Grid is a simple and easy Javascript library for dynamic grid layouts.
  • netlify-shortener - your own free URL shortener with Netlify
  • node-security - The easiest way to control access to npm modules
  

Browsers

• Available Librefox, a version of Firefox with changes for privacy and security
• Xiaomi released Mint Browser - Android browser with night mode, bookmark sync and no ads.
• Microsoft compared the performance of browsers in Windows 10 October 2018 Update
• In Firefox 66, a button will appear to search for tabs.
• How to add custom styles in Firefox

Entertaining

• We draw elegant Christmas trees with ASCII characters (and not only)
• The history of the project Dragonfly: how Google went to China
• The most useless innovations of 2018 - Inc. list.
• IT turbulence: what challenges did technology leaders face in 2018
• TechCrunch named the best and worst gadgets of 2018

Well, next year I would like to wish less new frameworks and more stability to our front end. Holiday greetings!

Digest from last week .
Material prepared dersmoll and alekskorovin .