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The Impact Dark Mode Has on User Experience

As a website designer or website owner, you typically think you have only one way to create a website — a white background, black font, and different visual elements in the foreground. But that’s only one variant of website layout. The alternative is the dark mode.

Managing Top-Layer Elements and Display Behavior in CSS

We are getting spoiled with so many new features involving animations with CSS, from scroll-driven animations to view transitions, and plenty of things in between. But it’s not always the big features that make our everyday lives easier; sometimes, it’s those ease-of-life features that truly enhance our projects. In this article, Brecht De Ruyte puts two features on display: @starting-style and transition-behavior — two properties that are absolutely welcome additions to your everyday work with CSS animations.

Svelte 5 And The Future Of Frameworks

Svelte 5 is out, and it’s radically different but intimately familiar.

CSS Snippets Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2025

This year, the snippets are bigger, more powerful, and leverage progressive enhancement a bit more; to help us step up to the vast UI/UX requirements of 2025.

Chrome for developers

Take back space from above and below your text content; achieve optical balance.

Frontend Developer Roadmap for 2025

Frontend development has become more dynamic as the IT sector develops further, embracing state-of-the-art tools, frameworks, and advances in artificial intelligence. This roadmap will walk you through the necessary knowledge, resources, and trends to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving profession of frontend development if you intend to start or advance in the industry in 2025.

Essential Custom React Hooks

React has revolutionized web development with its declarative and component-based approach. While built-in Hooks like useState and useEffect are indispensable, custom Hooks allow developers to encapsulate reusable logic, making codebases cleaner, modular, and easier to maintain.

Styling a meter element with CSS and SVG

I recently had to add a new variation of a rating component for work and thought I’d share my technique here. (Note that this rating is just for displaying a rating, not for inputting a rating.)

A Novel 3D Rendering Technique

What’s unique about it is that the dots in the dither patterns stick to surfaces, and yet the dot sizes and spacing remain approximately constant on the screen, even as surfaces move closer by or further away. This is achieved by dynamically adding or removing dots as needed.

JavaScript Temporal is coming

Implementations of the new JavaScript Temporal object are starting to be shipped in experimental releases of browsers. This is big news for web developers because working with dates and times in JavaScript will be hugely simplified and modernized.

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