Here are five things in the Frontend Engineering world, that I found interesting…
Prepack - Partial evaluator for JavaScript - From Facebook, a tool for making JavaScript code run faster (early still, not for use in production).
Yes, React is taking over front-end development. The question is why. - Gives a fairly good explanation for this in the beginning, then gives code examples.
Preact.js - Fast 3kB alternative to React with the same ES6 API. If you’re looking for a VDOM implementation without all the abstraction, you must try this out. Been using it for a year or so, and have had many successes.
Javascript Is a Buffet, Not the Enemy - Chris Heilmann - Must see if you’re just getting into JS dev, or you’ve been doing it for 15 years. I think this puts the current ecosystem in the correct light.
Getting started with CSS Grid Layout - Nice list of resources for this new kind of layout system in CSS, that started six years ago as a proposal, and now has landed in latest major browser versions.
Keep Rising,
Kevin B. Ridgway
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