In this article, I’ll present you with a list of 10 libraries to help you start new projects faster. Most of us here at SitePoint find it hard to resist a fresh repo, and we wanted to see if we could narrow down the ideal toolkit for the project-prone developer.…
If you’ve been following along with our introductory articles on Deno, you’re probably interested in having a go at writing your first program. In this article, we’re going to walk through installing the Deno runtime, and creating a command-line weather program that will take a city name as an argument…
This article was created in partnership with Sencha. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. JavaScript is the technology at the heart of today’s snappy and fast web apps. There are countless UI frameworks and libraries for building complex, reactive apps that scale well. Some will help…
Many claim CSS is not a programming language. I agree — it’s tougher. A mastery of CSS requires skills in design, determination, inventiveness, experience, as well as coding (especially when using preprocessors such as Sass). CSS suggests layouts and styles to the browser. A browser can interpret those suggestions whichever…
Here’s a primer for the tools all web developers should get to know, from basic Bash commands to web browser add-ons that will debug your web apps and automate navigation tests, plus continuous integrations pipelines. Keep in mind this article is intended to cover the tools that the largest number…
There are multiple ways to hide an element in CSS, but they differ in the way they affect accessibility, layout, animation, performance, and event handling. Animation Some CSS hiding options are all or nothing. The element is either fully visible or fully invisible and there’s no in-between state. Others, such…
Svelte is a next generation way of building user interfaces. While frameworks like React, Vue and Angular do the bulk of their work in the browser, Svelte takes it to the next level. It does its work when you build the app and it compiles your Svelte app to efficient…
Image optimization — at least in my experience — has always been a major pain when building speedy websites. Balancing image quality and bandwidth efficiency is a tough act without the right tools. Photo editing tools such as Photoshop are great for retouching, cropping and resizing bitmap images. Unfortunately, they…
This article was created in partnership with Percy. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Visual testing is the automated process of ensuring your user interface looks correct in different browsers and at different screen widths. Most development teams rely solely on unit and integration tests. While…
In this guide, we’ll learn how to build a modern blog website using Vue.js and GraphCMS, a headless CMS platform. If you’re looking to start a quick blog today, my recommendation is to go straight to WordPress. But what if you’re a media powerhouse and you want to deliver your…