A web developer’s primer on CORS, CSP, HSTS, and all the web security acronyms! There are many reasons to learn about web security, such as: * You’re a concerned user who is worried about your personal data being leaked * You’re a concerned web developer…

Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care

Privacy is a fundamental human right that has become one of the most illusive and least understood topics of the Internet. However, the time is coming for change, and it's up to us whether that’s going to happen willfully or through regulation. This article…

What's the fastest way to start a blog? Wordpress? Jekyll? Any one of the hundreds of static site gen...

A 404 page should do more than apologize for poor navigation on behalf of your website. Here’s why making an effort with a 404 page could better your website’s chances of people coming back despite the inconvenience, and how to track those errors to reduce…

Custom elements allow web developers to define new HTML tags, extend existing ones, and create reusable web components.

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Interactive roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help developers grow in their careers. - kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap

Ah, January. A time of optimism, a time for starting afresh. For making new goals and resolutions. And in the web development world, for looking at the landscape and deciding what we need to learn just to keep up. Because let’s face it - web development is…

Developers, designers, and strategists, here’s something you can do for the health of the web:  Test all your sites in Firefox. Yes, we should all design to web standards to the best of our ability. Yes, we should all test our work in *every* browser and…

Guide to using HTTP headers for a better web. Learn about HTTPS, HSTS, CSP, Cacheable, immutable resources, serving WebP images, Feature-Policy and more.

Every day, millions of people visit websites all over the world, and are confronted with a simple message: “We use cookies to make our site work, because we have yet to find a viable alternative to this somewhat insecure method of tracking our users, their…

Create REST and GraphQL APIs, scaffold Jamstack webapps, stream changes in real-time.

This article provides a thorough introduction to Svelte and walks you through the fundamentals necessary to start building web applications with it.

We are going to rewrite React from scratch. Step by step. Following the architecture from the real React code but without all the…

Colin Bendell gets into the minutia of microbrowsers - the small previews of your site that are pervasive all around the web and through social media apps and search engines whenever an item of content on your site is referenced.

If you are an experienced developer, you may well know about makefiles. Today we are going to bust some myths and see how to use them as…

A visual overview of useful skills to learn as a web developer

We software developers have historically used the terms “frontend” and “backend” to describe work on client-side (e.g., browser) and server-side applications, respectively. This conceptual split has evolved into the creation of specialized developer roles…