Development & Dev Tools

This is not a complete list, more a list of stuff I found compelling in 2021 that

This is an extended version of my essay “When front-end means full-stack” which was published in the wonderful Increment magazine put out by Stripe. It’s also something of an evolution of a couple other of my essays, “The Great Divide” and “Ooops, I guess we’re full-stack developers now.”

What if everyone's wrong?

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

Do you know what it takes to render HTML elements on a web page without Angular, React, Svelte, and Vue? Let's explore a controlled scenario of creating a simple web page and bring to the foreground what it takes to render a page with pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Let’s talk about the ternary operator. It can be confusing for many. In this video, Tonya puts the if/else side-by-side with its equivalent ternary to help you know and understand it. The alternate syntax tip is found here. This tip is valid for JavaScript and PHP.

Heydon Pickering published a fantastic post called Reluctant Gatekeeping: The Problem With Full Stack. I have about 3 blog post drafts covering similar ground and apparently we see very much eye-to-eye on this, so I thought it might be worthwhile to walk through Heydon’s post and layer on my comment

Does front-end development as a we know it still exist; or has the role evolved into something we no longer recognise? As with evolution in nature, the evolution of "front-end" has resulted in several distinct flavours --- and in my opinion --- an identity crisis.

A time saving tool for developers. It detects outdated browsers and advises users to upgrade to a new version.

Let users visit your site, even when they're on a plane over the Atlantic, or 20,000 leagues under t...