There’s a common misconception that writing tests slows down development speed. While the benefits of testing may not be immediately…

There are more than 1.8 billion websites on the Internet right now, and the number is growing. What makes your website stand out? In order to make sure your website is a success, it's important to keep the big picture in mind.

A vision about how to don’t get lost in your own application

This week’s Designer News (N.439) includes Solving Life's Problems with CSS, Jam Icons, Text Editing Techniques, Dynamic Bézier Curves, Cool Backgrounds, Lessons Learned While Developing WordPress Plugins, How CSS Works: Understanding the Cascade and more.

The fact that Microsoft is buying GitHub has left a lot of developers with a deep feeling of unease and a lot of them are now looking for alternatives. One of those is GitLab and that company has decided to strike the iron while it’s hot. To attract even…

If you were one of those kids that wondered why you had to attend all those math classes and learn about angles and algebra, well, so was I.

While browsing the latest award-winning websites, you may notice a lot of fancy image distortion animations or neat 3D effects. Most of them are created

When it comes to performance, what works in the browser doesn’t necessarily suit Node.js. So, how do we make sure a Node.js implementation is fast and fit for purpose? Node is a very versatile platform, but one of the predominant applications is creating…

The way we design websites has undergone some more and some less radical changes over the past years. With the introduction of CSS flexbox, a major change has t

Many applications today rely on real-time data transfer. As the size of data for each message in our system differs from a few bytes to up to 100MB, we needed a scalable solution that could support a multitude of scenarios. In this article, Dhimil Gosalia…

Fullstack GraphQL Tutorial to go from zero to production covering all basics and advanced concepts.

Anselm Hannemann summarized the most important things that happened in the web development world in the past four weeks so that you can easily catch up on everything that’s new.

Serverless is more than a cloud computing execution model. It changes the way we plan, build, and deploy apps. But it also changes the way…

How could you go from almost no traction and running out of money, to getting millions of visitors to your website?

Socrates left behind a way to deeply explore a topic in a systematic way. It's called Socratic questioning. Let's apply it to Docker.

The placeholder attribute contains a surprising amount of issues that prevent it from delivering on what it promises. The presence of a placeholder attribute won’t be flagged by automated accessibility checking software. However, this doesn’t necessarily…

Flutter makes building cross-platform mobile applications a breeze. This article introduces Flutter, compares it to other mobile development platforms, and shows how to use it to get started building apps.

All released this year, each of these free web-based apps offer a time-saving solution to many of the web design tasks you will need to perform from time to time....