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Learn Raw React – No JSX, No Flux, No ES6, No Webpack
Learn React from the ground up, without worrying about JSX, Flux, ES6, Webpack, etc.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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Framer's Magic Motion
How does Framer Motion make layout changes look seamless? In this post, we're taking a deep dive into FLIP, the technique used by Framer Motion to animate changes in layout without sacrificing performance.
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Common Beginner Mistakes with React
I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a lot of potential frustration!
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You might not need an effect
The library for web and native user interfaces
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Undiscoverable UI Madness
We have a couple Mac users in the office so I went around and asked them how to do some things on macOS, which as we all know, is much better than iPadOS at making important, useful UI elements easily discoverable. I talked to 3 people who have been using
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Don't bother creating a mobile app
Lessons learned spending one year creating and improving our mobile app.
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I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned
Driven by curiosity, I decided to find out what the IndieWeb tag that kept showing up on some blogs and Mastodon toots was all about. I quickly…
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Ten years of JSON Web Token and preparing for the future
Ten years ago this week, in May 2015, the JSON Web Token (JWT) became RFC 7519 . This was the culmination of a 4.5 year journey to create a simple JSON-based security token format and underlying JSON-based cryptographic standards. The full set of RFCs published together was:
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Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs
Note: I just spoke at Coldfront 2017 about why I’m such a big proponent of the Web. What follows is essentially that talk as a blog post (I’ll add a link to the video once it is published).
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Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website
If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.
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Firefox 75: Ambitions for April
Firefox 75 is chock full of handy new dev tooling: instant evaluation in the web console, event breakpoints for WebSockets, and more. New web platform features include HTML lazy loading ...
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WebRender is in beta
🎉 WebRender is in beta 🎉! There are still a number of blocking bugs so WebRender will stay on beta for a few trains until it has received enough polish to hit the release population. This is an imp…
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Building a Hexagonal Grid in CSS
CSS grid goes hexagonal.
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Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades
Sometimes, improving your application CSS just takes a one-line upgrade or enhancement! Learn about 12 properties to start incorporating into your projects, and enjoy reducing technical debt, removing JavaScript, and scoring easy wins for user experience.
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How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?
How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient? From data centres to transmission networks to the devices that we hold in our …
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Towards a bra-free Instagram experience
Hey Instagram. I was just wondering,
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The death of web development education
Rescuing a field from disappearing
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The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)
Social media was once hailed as the great democratizer of information. It promised a world where anyone could share their voice, connect with like-minded communities, and discover authentic human perspectives. But in 2025, the landscape looks very different. Social platforms are drowning in a flood of Generative AI…
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No more JavaScript frameworks
Stop writing Javascript frameworks. Translations: Chinese Japanese Russian Here's the talk, based on this essay, that I gave at OSCON 2015. [Slides] The 100-line templating library presented as a Gist has been cleaned up, documented, and published as the Stamp library. JavaScript frameworks seem like death and taxes…
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Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions – Chrome edition
Modern processors have instructions to process several bytes at once. Effectively all processors have the capability of processing 16 bytes at once. These instructions are called SIMD, for single instruction, multiple data. It was once an open question whether these instructions could be useful to accelerate common…
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React v16.3.0: New lifecycles and context API
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. A few days ago, we wrote a post about upcoming changes to our legacy lifecycle methods, including gradual migration strategies. In React 16.3.0, we are adding a few new lifecycle methods to assist with that migration. We are also…
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New Map APIs from Google
Introducing new AI-powered products and tools from Google Maps Platform. Learn more
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Oh-Auth – Abusing OAuth to take over millions of accounts
OAuth Account Takeover. Salt Labs shows how hackers could abuse OAuth to take over millions of accounts on Grammarly, Vidio, and Bukalapak.