This article explores the evolution and the future of frontend tooling, presenting a new set of tools featuring a change in paradigm, platform, or both. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/06/future-frontend-build-tools/
CSS color-mix is an experimental function that blends two colors and can be used to simplify color palettes. You can define a color palette and theme without too much effort using CSS color-mix(). https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/06/simplify-color-palette-css-color-mix/
Computer technologies have simplified the process of recording historical events, technological breakthroughs, contemporary art, and everyday life. However, the notion of digital archiving can be deceptive. Often our technical footprints are carved in sand rather than stone. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/06/digital-museums-digital-history/
In this article, Sam Poder explores how Prisma integrates with the Jamstack and why it’s a great solution for Serverless databases in JavaScript or TypeScript-based projects. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/06/case-prisma-jamstack/
This is the first part of this article, written especially for typeface designers and typographers. See how typefaces work, how to test them, and other broader typographic issues. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/06/measuring-performance-typefaces-users-part1/
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a group chat app. You will build a backend app using Node.js that will make group chats, authorize chat participants, and maintain sessions for them. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/06/build-group-chat-app-vanillajs-twilio-nodejs/
In this article, Ken Harker explains what third-party resource requests really are and which common optimization strategies can help reduce the impact on the user experience. By carefully considering how third-party requests will fit into your website during the design stage, you’ll be able to avoid the most significant negative impacts. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/06/dont-sink-website-third-parties/
What could be a better way to welcome June than with some colorful inspiration? Well, we might have something for you: wallpapers created with love by artists and designers from across the globe. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/05/desktop-wallpaper-calendars-june-2022/
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask why accessibility really matters and why it is so important to get it right. Smashing’s Vitaly Friedman talks in-depth to Sara Soueidan to find out. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/05/smashing-podcast-episode-47/
How many browser DevTools panels do you commonly use in your day-to-day web development? One? Three? Probably not that many more. In this article, Patrick Brosset shines the spotlight on a number of tools that people don’t use or even know about. Let’s dive in! https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/05/whats-that-dev-tool/