Implementing a performance culture is very important. In this article, Dan Shappir shares which actions and processes the Wix team put in place in order to achieve dramatic improvements in the performance of websites built and hosted on their platform. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/improving-performance-wix-websites-case-study/
Hosting with a wildcard subdomain enables your users to visit your site on any subdomain of your domain (*.example.com), and as you can imagine, we can use this to create unique user experiences which we’ll be exploring in this article through a Next.js lens. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/nextjs-wildcard-subdomains/
In this article, we’ll take a look at the best ways to handle colors in CSS today, some tips for using them in a design system, and what we can expect from our colors in the not-too-distant future. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/guide-modern-css-colors/
Meet “Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces”, our brand-new guide on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric standards. 400 pages. Shipping starting late-December. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/touch-design-pre-release/
What’s your favorite command-line tool? In this post, Louis Layaris shares a collection of relevant command-line apps and utilities that he has personally come across in the past few years. If there’s a useful one that hasn’t been mentioned and one you use regularly, please do share it in the comments. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/powerful-terminal-commandline-tools-modern-web-development/
The React team introduced several hooks in React 16.8 which you can use from third-party providers in your application, or even create your own custom hook. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some of the most useful hooks in React and how to use them. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/useful-react-hooks/
Dribbbleshots just might be the hotbed of questionable dashboards. Striking visuals, little context, and no research: all recipes for mediocrity. Mediocrity won’t do. We’ll pursue greatness. And in that pursuit, we’ll cover research, decluttering, and data visualization. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/dashboard-design-research-decluttering-data-viz/
Internationalized routing is not exactly a new feature on Next.js. In this article, we are not only checking what we get from this feature, but also how to leverage such functionalities to achieve the best user experience and a smooth developer experience as well. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/localizing-your-nextjs-app/
In this article, Leonardo Losoviz explains how Cloudinary’s integration can be used with WordPress to produce and deliver optimal digital experiences. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/transforming-optimizing-images-videos-wordpress-website/
A great commerce experience cannot be distilled to a single number. It’s not a Lighthouse score, or a set of Core Web Vitals figures, although both are important inputs. A great commerce experience is a trilemma that carefully balances competing needs of delivering a great customer experience, dynamic storefront capabilities, and long-term business — conversion, retention, re-engagement — objectives. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/hydrogen-react-framework-dynamic-contextual-per