Web Vitals are the new gold standard in performance due to their direct correlation with the user’s experience. In this article, you’ll learn what monitoring can do and how RayGun can help you sustain performance maintenance while scaling your app. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/benchmark-improve-web-vitals-real-user-metrics/
If we want our WordPress plugins to offer a settings page that is fully powered by blocks, how can we do it? Since Full Site Editing doesn't support this feature yet, we need to code a custom solution. In this article we will learn how we can do it. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/wordpress-editor-cpts-configure-plugins/
How do text typing and editing work on the web? Although this process might seem straightforward, there is a lot of technical nuance behind its apparent simplicity. This article looks at how typing on the web works. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/develop-text-editor-web/
In this episode, we’re talking about Responsible JavaScript. What does it mean for code to be responsible, and how should we approach projects differently? Drew McLellan talks to expert Jeremy Wagner to find out. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/smashing-podcast-episode-45/
You don’t need to be a full DevOps engineer if you want to introduce a testing build routine. With the help of some testing frameworks and GitHub actions, Ramona Schwering gives a short kick-off to help you get on the right track. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/testing-pipeline-101-frontend-testing/
Markdown in all its flavors, interpretations, and forks won’t go away. However, it’s important to look at emerging content formats that try to encompass modern needs. In this article, Knut shares his advice against Markdown by looking back on why it was introduced in the first place, and by going through some of the major developments of content on the web. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/thoughts-on-markdown/
We all need a little inspiration boost every now and again. In this post, we collected inspiring resources from all across the web for you — beautiful eye candy, tips to challenge your skills, and useful tools that are bound to spark new ideas. Enjoy! https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/inspiring-websites-tools/
In this article, Leonardo Losoviz discusses some potential consequences as well as positive outcomes of WordPress joining the Block Protocol. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/implications-wordpress-joining-block-protocol/
Voice is a powerful tool that we can use to communicate with each other. This article covers the most critical aspects of designing for voice user interfaces: designing the conversation and designing visual interfaces. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/voice-user-interfaces-guide/
This installment of Web Design Done Well celebrates weird and wacky websites. Sites with sweet, innocent, sometimes pointless purposes. Are they money makers? Game changers? Not necessarily, but they sure are fun, and in ways only the web could really manage. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/web-design-done-well-perfectly-pointless/