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Kellen Mace has launched Headless WP Rocks, a YouTube channel dedicated to building JavaScript apps powered by a headless WordPress backend.
The website has a form where you can sign up for email updates. 📧
I like how Brad Frost defines the two types of front-end developers: Front-of-the-front-end developer: a web developer who specializes in writing HTML, CSS, and presentational JavaScript code. Back-of-the-front-end developer: a web developer who specializes in writing JavaScript code necessary to make a web application function properly. In Brad’s view, “A front-of-the-front-end developer determines the look…
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Wes Bos has published a free note and reference guide for JavaScript developers, especially for beginners. It’s a great-looking resource. 👍
Chris Coyier asks when a project needs React. His take: (1) if your application has a lot of “state” (2) if you’re looking to avoid spaghetti code and looking to build things into modules and (3) there’s a high need to manually handle the DOM. Reasons not to jump into React? Because it’s the “next…
Google has officially released its Native Lazyload plugin for WordPress to take advantage of the Chrome browser’s new native lazy-loading capabilities. For other browsers, there is JavaScript fallback. Jon Henshaw explains how the plugin works, with this advice: “If the purpose of implementing lazy-loading is strictly for improving user experience, web developers may want to…
Phew, it’s been a bit of a whirlwind couple of days, and I don’t work at Automattic. The Calypso project sparked a lot of conversation, and confusion. Calypso is the name of the effort, but the result was the WordPress.com revamp of editing tools, both for web and the new desktop app. I interviewed Matt…
