Basic grid layout with fallbacks using feature queries
A really nice example of progressive enhancement: creating a layout with inline-block, then flexbox, then Grid.
Link archive: September 14th, 2017
Brighton CodePen Meetup / Wednesday, October 4 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
There’s going to be a CodePen meetup in Brighton as part of the Brighton Digital Festival. Should be fun! See you there.
Deploying ES2015+ Code in Production Today — Philip Walton
The reality is transpiling and including polyfills is quickly becoming the new norm. What’s unfortunate is this means billions of users are getting trillions of bytes sent over the wire unnecessarily to browsers that would have been perfectly capable of running the untranspiled code natively.
Phil has a solution: serve up your modern JavaScript using script type="module" and put your transpiled fallback in script nomodule.
Most developers think of
<script type="module">as way to load ES modules (and of course this is true), but<script type="module">also has a more immediate and practical use-case—loading regular JavaScript files with ES2015+ features and knowing the browser can handle it!
Full-Stack Developers | Brad Frost
In my experience, “full-stack developers” always translates to “programmers who can do frontend code because they have to and it’s ‘easy’.” It’s never the other way around. The term “full-stack developer” implies that a developer is equally adept at both frontend code and backend code, but I’ve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description.
Is there any value in people who cannot write JavaScript?
When every new website on the internet has perfect, semantic, accessible HTML and exceptionally executed, accessible CSS that works on every device and browser, then you can tell me that these languages are not valuable on their own. Until then we need to stop devaluing CSS and HTML.