Jobs

• Front End Engineer at Snapdocs in San Francisco (YC W14)Pre-Series A company in mortgage space with real revenue and growth, hiring empathetic front end engineers who are comfortable with Rails. Snapdocs
• Sr. Front-End Engineer — React/Redux (San Francisco)We’re looking for an enthusiastic app developer to join our team. We use React, Flow, GraphQL, Relay, Apollo Client on a daily basis. Quri Inc
• Frontend JavaScript Engineer (f/m) – Contentful (Berlin)As our front-end engineer, you’ll work on a modular user interface where API design and application architecture are the main challenges. Contentful GmbH

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In Brief

WebAssembly Library Supercharges Web Video Apps news
The WebDSP library features algorithms for building web applications operating on media data and provides better performance than JavaScript.
Paul Krill

New Inspector and Debugger Features for Firefox 54 news
Some improvements to the responsive design mode in Firefox Developer Edition 54.
Mozilla Hacks

Full-day Workshop: Using ES6 and React with Netflix’s Brian Holt course
React eschews the traditional MVC architecture, a counter-intuitive approach Brian explains along with JSX, React best practices, and the React component lifecycle.
Forward Courses  Sponsor

Styling Vertical Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Mongolian Text tutorial
How to use CSS to produce vertical text for languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Mongolian. The CSS specification contains a lot of implementation-specific information.
W3C

CSS Viewport Units: A Quick Start tutorial
An introduction to the use of CSS viewport units for responsive typography and layout elements.
Asha Laxmi

Quickly Setting Up Gulp and Sass (for Beginners) tutorial
Petar Vukmanovic

Grid ‘Fallbacks’ and Overrides tutorial
A cheatsheet to help create good fallbacks/overrides for Grid Layout.
Rachel Andrew

Using CSS Transitions on Auto Dimensions tutorial
Brandon Smith

A 17 Minute Overview of Twitter’s Front-End Architecture video
Giuseppe Gurgone

Playing with CSS Grids opinion
“Front-end design is finally making print-like design easier to achieve.”
Marco Barbosa

CSS is Broken: My Dime a Dozen Opinion opinion
Jeremy Wagner

Test your application against full-sized database copies in seconds tools
Create SQL Server database copies in seconds & test your application as you develop using SQL Clone. Try free.
Red Gate  Sponsor

Microsoft Announces Edge Testing in Partnership with BrowserStack tools
Run Microsoft Edge ‘inside’ your browser on macOS, Windows, or Linux for free.
Microsoft

CSS Cursors: View CSS Cursors Your Browser Supports tools
Wes Bos

SweetAlert2: An Accessible (WAI-ARIA) Replacement for JS Alerts code

Pure.css: Small, Responsive CSS Modules code
Very lightweight, covers grids, forms, buttons, tables, and menus.
Yahoo

Creating A Responsive Site Without Media Queries demo
A simple Flexbox and CSS Grid demo showing a responsive layout without media queries.
Jonathan Snook