Async functions part of ES2017

Async/await will officially be part of the ES2017 specification.

React Fiber Architecture

React Fiber is an ongoing reimplementation of React's core algorithm. It is the culmination of over two years of research by the React team.

Tootik

A pure CSS/SCSS Tooltips library. Super easy to use, No JavaScript required.

klipse

A simple client-side code evaluator pluggable on any web page: clojure, ruby, javascript

lightgallery.js

A customizable, modular, responsive, lightbox gallery. No dependencies. With tons of features such as thumbnails, youtube, vimeo and html5 videos, touch and drag suppot.. etc 

10 Rules For Efficient Form Design

Users can be hesitant to fill out forms. Developers should pay special attention to improving their forms and making them as usable as possible, because careful form design has a huge impact on the speed with which users can accurately complete a form. 

Building Ambitious Web Applications with Ember.js

In this blog post, Daniel talks about the core concepts of the Ember framework and gives a demo of how to build an Ember application using a simple book management app as an example.

JavaScript and Functional Programming

Object-oriented programming has long been the dominant paradigm in JavaScript. Recently, however, there has been a growing interest in functional programming.

Fake it 'til you Make it CSS

Not everyone has fibre optic, and a lot of people consume web content through 3G. We can all agree that there is nothing worse than a white page with content slowly populating, so why don’t we fake it until the content makes it?

3 Weird SVG Browser Inconsistencies

SVGs can be surprisingly finicky when it comes to browser support. Una recently ran into some interesting issues at work, specifically with Firefox, and realized: this wasn't the first time she had Firefox SVG issues.

Demystifying JS engines

This is a list of resources you can use to learn about virtual machines in general, from an architecture point of view to optimizations and garbage collection strategies.

Precedence in CSS (When Order of CSS Matters)

On your average CSS-writin' day, odds are you won't even think about precedence in CSS. It doesn't come up a whole heck of a lot. But it does matter!

A Standard System of Measurements?

If the quasi-scientific Web Community were to collectively agree to use the same testing environments, like Science, it could help eliminate vanity metrics and produce better comparisons and better practices...

React Native at SoundCloud

About a year ago SoundCloud developers faced an interesting question: can they build SoundCloud Pulse — their app for creators — with React Native? Is a five-month-old technology mature enough to become part of SoundCloud’s tech stack?

Hidden Expectations

The hardest parts of the Web are the invisible parts: Accessibility, Security, Performance, and Empathy.

Being Pushy

HTML responses are rarely static resources nowadays. They are often dynamically generated using a higher-level language while gathering the info needed for their creation from a database. HTTP2 push can be used to significantly improve loading performance, and when used right can speed up the very first critical path loading, resulting in improved performance metrics all across the board.

CSS only scroll indicator

Mike was interested to see if he could make a scroll indicator with just CSS. You can! But maybe you shouldn't.

The Inner JSON Effect

A story about a language called JDSL (JSON-based Domain Specific Language): "JDSL was written by Tom. He’s a super-genius and wrote JDSL himself."