The Jamstack approach originated from a speech given by Netlify’s CEO Matt Biilmann at Smashing Magazine’s very own Smashing Conf in 2016. Jamstack sites serve static pre-rendered content through a CDN and generate dynamic content through microservices, APIs & serverless functions. They are commonly created using JavaScript frameworks, such as Next.js or Gatsby, and static…
Find out if Webflow is a viable option for tech-savvy users who want to build custom websites. Continue reading Webflow Review: Is It a Serious Option for Developers? on SitePoint.
Technological development is an iterative process. One might assume that any engineer has at least a rough idea of how we got from the first wheel to self-driving cars or from the abacus to fintech applications, but this is a risky thing to take for granted. Even digital heritage needs museums to be preserved. Without…
The best JavaScript charting libraries for creating and graphs and figures. From the scientific to the simple. Continue reading 15 JavaScript Libraries for Creating Beautiful Charts on SitePoint.
HeadSpin is a performance testing platform for actionable insights into your app. Test on real devices, automate testing, and move faster. Continue reading Get Deeper Insights Into Your App Performance with HeadSpin on SitePoint.
There’s a reason for all the new, experimental color features CSS is introducing. And there’s a reason for all the excitement they’re stirring up. Colors are hard. Defining a base color palette can be time-consuming and involve quite a few stakeholders. And that’s not even considering contextual colors, like hover, active and inactive states. Defining…
An IDE is a development environment that helps you write and edit code. It provides syntax highlighting, code completion, and project management tools so that you can focus on coding while the IDE handles the rest of your work. Continue reading What Is an IDE? How Does It Enable Faster Development? on SitePoint.
Frontend build tooling is crucial to the workflow of the modern frontend developer for a host of reasons classified under improved developer and user experiences. From the developer’s perspective, frontend tooling gives us: the ability to author modules, a dev server for local development, Hot Module Replacement (HMR) for a shorter feedback loop in development…
Check out these potential game-changing WordPress plugins that could enable your business to save time and money. Continue reading 10 Awesome WordPress Plugins (2022 Updated) on SitePoint.
In the first part of this article, we saw that measuring and comparing typefaces is not a simple task. Testing it (subjectively or objectively) also depends on the context — which can be very tricky. We saw how important it is to keep the typographic design parameters and variables the same to get a more…