Chris Coyier
When frontend means full stack
Reflections on the shifting responsibilities of frontend developers.
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Frontend
This issue surveys the breadth and depth of frontend development, from its principles, tools, and frameworks to its shifting scope and far-reaching fringes.
Lea Verou
A user’s guide to CSS variables
Long-requested but still underused, CSS custom properties for cascading variables offer revolutionary possibilities for collaboration and code reuse.
Ian Feather
How to reevaluate your frontend architecture
A process to break the chains of old, and usher in an age of less complexity, greater consensus, and a more functional technical stack.
Evan You
The process: Making Vue 3
Lessons from rewriting the next major version of Vue.js.
Luca Mezzalira
Micro-frontends in context
When—and why—should developers consider this newer, smaller frontend architecture pattern?
Ramsey Nasser
A frontend stack for video games
Tales of a powerful and expressive game engine built entirely from open-source, web-based technologies.Ipsita Agarwal
Case study: Web components for screen readers
How Slack changed the way it designs accessible frontend components.Chris Lilley
Ask an expert: Why is CSS . . . the way it is?
A technical director of the W3C’s interaction domain unpacks the histories and mysteries.Safia Abdalla
On composable, modular frontends
A look at using composable design for frontend components to help build scalable and maintainable frontend systems.
Chris Stokel-Walker
The rise of React
On the social, cultural, and technological impacts of the increasingly ubiquitous frontend framework.Nishant Shukla
A chatbot expedition
On learning from the past, looking to the future, and diving into the depths of authoring principled conversational interfaces.Glenn Fleishman
Design by design
Exploring how integrated design tools are reshaping the workflows (and work) of UX, UI, and frontend teams.
Elizabeth Minkel
A frontend of our own
The true story of what happened when a group of fanfiction writers built a Hugo award–winning—and resolutely, delightfully amateur—web publishing platform.Ian Steadman
Interview: Sarah Allen
One of the creators of After Effects, Shockwave, and Flash on the comings and goings of software and the future of frontend development.Increment Staff
Frontend at scale
Leaders at Atlassian, Canva, Tinder, and Vimeo discuss frameworks, tooling, and rapidly evolving technologies.Ipsita Agarwal
Case study: Mobile payments in India
How Google designed an app for users from big cities to rural areas on devices old and new.
