What makes a good front-end developer?

September 16, 2018design tips

Defining what a front-end developer is and what they do is tough as it is. So, how do we set the bar for what makes for a good front-end developer?

Here’s what a few folks have to say on the topic.

I’ll argue that front-end developers need to master four different skills.

  1. Empathy
  2. Code
  3. Design
  4. Communication

Zell Liew

Front-End Developers, having learnt HTML, CSS and JS, are forced to take functionality into account when creating user experiences or making sure …

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WordPress’ Trusted Authors Program: What It Is and How You Can Get Onboard

September 16, 2018design tips
The WordPress theme review process has become notorious for the sometimes long delay between making a submission and receiving approval. This waiting period is often understandable, given the vast array of new themes that are regularly submitted, but it doesn’t help when you’re trying to push your new product live quickly. With that in mind, …
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Icon Design in 2018: The Key Trends

September 16, 2018design tips
Icons might be one of the most important – and underrated – examples of design in your portfolio. Here’s a look at icon design in 2018, plus some great examples of inspiring icons and design work. Icon elements are shown almost everywhere, but sometimes get produced as an afterthought. That shouldn’t be the case. A […]
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Aspect Ratio Media Elements and intrinsicsize

September 16, 2018design tips

If you need an aspect-ratio sized <div> (or any element that can have children), you can do it. Perhaps the cleanest way is a custom-property-sized pseudo-element that pushes the correct minimum height through padding-based-on-width.

But media elements like <img> don’t have children. The <video> tag isn’t self-closing, but when it is supported (almost always), the content of it is replaced with a shadow DOM you don’t control. Besides, these are the only two elements that “size to an external …

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Gutenberg 3.8 Released, Adds Full Screen Mode

September 14, 2018design tips
Gutenberg 3.8 is available for download. This release features a full screen mode that hides both the admin bar and the menu. Unlike previous versions of Distraction-Free-Writing mode where things would fade in and out of view, these two items stay hidden until full-screen mode is disabled. User Interface elements (more…)
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5 Tricks to Write Eye-Catching Titles That Make Your WordPress Site Viral

September 13, 2018design tips
With great chefs, there is always that secret ingredient that turns their dish into a masterpiece. The same goes in the world of blogging. A title is an essential ingredient that will help you drive more traffic to your WordPress site. It is one thing to come up with fantastic content, but it’s another thing …
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Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend

September 13, 2018design tips

Here’s how and why the team at GitHub has slowly been deprecating jQuery from their codebase:

We have recently completed a milestone where we were able to drop jQuery as a dependency of the frontend code for GitHub.com. This marks the end of a gradual, years-long transition of increasingly decoupling from jQuery until we were able to completely remove the library. In this post, we will explain a bit of history of how we started depending on jQuery in the …

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