Debugging data ranges from simple things like API response latency to monitoring a user’s network health. Without the right framework and tools, the debugging process can be a nightmare. That’s why Akhil Labudubariki developed his own in-house Central Logging Service tool (CLS) to record all important events logged during a session. In this article, Akhil walks through a number of steps and considerations his team made when developing their own in-house Central Logging Service (CLS) tool.
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The modern solution to developing for both modern and legacy browsers is feature queries. They allow us to write CSS that is conditional on browser support for a particular feature. In this article Ire Aderinokun explains how she developed the Feature Queries Manager. Find out how this tool can help you suport older browsers, and also how to create your own DevTools extensions.
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What has happened in the web community in the past four weeks? Anselm Hannemann summarized everything that’s new and important in one handy reading list.
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Dynamic properties provide opportunities for new creative ideas, but also the potential to add complexity to CSS. Custom properties have a huge potential to change how we write and structure CSS and to a lesser extent, how we use JavaScript to interact with UI components. To get the most out of them, we might need a strategy for how we write and structure CSS with custom properties. In this article, Michael Riethmuller will show you how.
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What happened in the web community in the last few weeks? The web is developing and changing so fast, and we need to acknowledge that we as individual persons can’t know and understand everything. And that’s fine. Choose what you want to do, set your priorities, and, most importantly of all, don’t hesitate to hire someone else for the things you can’t do on your own. In this article, Anselm has summarized the most important happenings in the web community that have taken place over the past few weeks in one handy list for you. Enjoy!
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What is Selenium and how can it help you? Well, what if you were told that you could basically automate any task in your browser as if a real person were to execute it? Yes, you read that right. It is possible. In this article Nils Schütte will show you how you can spend less time testing the front end of web applications and still being confident that every feature will work fine. You will find a step-by-step example for automating and testing the login function of WordPress, but you can also adapt the example for any other login form.
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Building an MVP is all about building lots of functionality in a small amount of time. Vue.js is a good option, with a minimum of architectural boilerplate and a lot of raw power. All it needs is somewhere to store data. Let’s say you have this great idea for a new product. In this article, Lukas van Driel will guide you through the steps of creating and hosting this new web app.
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As every month, Anselm Hannemann summarized what happened in the web development world in the last few weeks. A handy reading list full of browser news, performance tips, UX advice, and much more to help you stay on top of things.
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Even if you don’t use any client-side JavaScript at all to build a site, it doesn’t mean you have to give up on the idea of building with components. Learn how to build a static site with the help of an HTML preprocessor. In this article, Chris Coyier will take a walk through a site he built recently using this technique. He used CodePen Projects to build it, which offers Nunjucks as a preprocessor, which was perfectly up for the job.
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Staying on top of the newest techniques, browser updates, and hot topics can be hard. Anselm Hannemann summarized what happened in the web industry in the past few weeks, so you can easily catch up on everything new and important.
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