As a front-end web developer, 2022 has been a good year full of innovation, and hopefully, 2023 will continue this trend. New core CSS features, new libraries, and a renewed discussion about accessibility and energy-efficiency help us to unite usability and fancy design in web development. Inspired by a discussion…

Doing some manual testing on the fly can get quite complex, even if it’s “just the happy path”. Testing tools and frameworks can help us to automate and manage our test scenarios. This is a cross-post of a Practical DEV blog post by Ingo Steinke, originally posted at https://dev.to/ingosteinke/automating-tests-using-codeceptjs-and-testomatio-first-steps-3b2e . Choosing (and Mixing) Test Frameworks

I don’t mind if you do the right thing for the wrong reason, but please don’t do anything only for the sake of productivity. I have seen so many posts coaching about productivity, and it often reminds me of this sign: “Coffee — do stupid things faster with more energy”. …

This story was first published at open-mind-culture.org and republished as CSS4 Colors in Ingo Steinke’s DEV blog. More, and More Colourful, Web Colors CSS4 will make even brighter colours available to web designers and developers. Like parent selectors, the upcoming CSS Level 4 colour proposal was first implemented in Safari. …

This story was originally published on Ingo Steinke’s DEV blog. I have been using Firefox for about 10 years, a happy early adopter after Microsoft planned to make Internet Explorer software to pay for. …

Events to look forward to in 2022, just a small and subjective selection from the perspective of a European web developer focused on front-end development, accessibility, and sustainability. You can also read this article in German. Remix Conference Friday, 14 January 2022 from 12:00 to 16:00 CET. A Smashing Hour with Sara Soueidan Part 2, 20 January 2022 from 17 p.m. CET. CSS Café: Understanding the Cascade, Online-Meetup with Bramus van Damme on Thursday, 27 January 2022 also at 17:00 (5 p.m.).

Inspired by my article “Nothing New in 2022?”, I will share some thoughts about what to expect and not to expect of a new year from the perspective of a frontend web developer. What 2022 will bring: long-awaited language features in CSS and JavaScript. Parent selectors or rather “has” pseudo-classes…

Building a reading list web app as a side project, using node, preact, and tailwind CSS, you might ask yourself, what is my purpose? This must have been done a thousand times before. Motivation: JavaScript Web Development the Proper Way I finally took some time for proper research (and some lazy trial and error based on tutorials…

We don’t have to be frequent flyers to leave an ecological footprint. Our Ecological Footprint ✈️💻 Carbon dioxide emissions pollute the air where it aggravates climate change, and the same also happens when we are using the internet. Video streaming and conferencing, gaming, and mining of cryptocurrencies only represent the tip of the iceberg. How Our Coding Style Impacts the Planet …