Slimming Down

Stim City Front-end Tools SitePoint Alum Louis Lazaris details his favorite front-end tools from 2017 [css-tricks]. Dwitter [dwitter] offers tweet-sized JavaScript snippets that produce cool visualizations. Stimulus [github/stimulusjs] is a modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have.   Count On It Front-end Resources Little-known JavaScript features and APIs [air.ghost]. A front-end dev’s guide to GraphQL [css-tricks]. A look at your options when it comes to auto-sizing columns in CSS Grid [css-tricks]. Browsers your website should support [sitepoint]. A guide to using CSS counters [pineco].   Slimming Down Tutorials (well, "tutorial" in this case) A guide to building a budget manager with Vue and Node [codeburst].   Amp It Up Fun stuff Winamp 2, built in HTML and JavaScript [jordaneldredge]. Midnight Lizard [chrome.google] is a Chrome extension that works as a night mode for the web. This bit of JavaScript generates random solar systems, each with planets orbiting under the proper gravitational pull [andihamolli]. Finally, the best (ie: worst) advice column questions from 2017 [digg]. What a primitive time 2017 was!   Welcome to 2018! I'm hoping by next week's edition I'm a bit more used to writing that, it still feels wrong to me. I'll have some more next week, but I hope you'll spend the intervening days as I will: listening to late 1990s music on JavaScript Winamp 2 while staring at JavaScript-generated solar systems and visualizations. Start off the new year as you mean to continue! - Adam 👋     You're receiving this email because you've signed up for SitePoint's Front-end newsletter. Manage your preferences to stop receiving this email below.   Tweet    Share    Forward  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe