Louis Lazaris

If you’re developing apps in the current JavaScript ecosystem, it’s almost impossible to do so without considering one of the many JavaScript build tools available (also referred to as JavaScript bundlers).

If you’re a web or app developer looking for ways to improve the performance of your pages, one improvement you’ll want to seriously consider is JavaScript minification. In this post, I’ll show you how to minify JavaScript and what tools you can use to minify JavaScript, depending on your current tech stack.

Knowing the full range of CSS selector types available when writing modern CSS today is crucial to using CSS to the fullest. In the past 10 years or so, the official specification has added a number of different CSS selectors and many of those selectors have strong support across all modern browsers.

It’s been more than a decade since responsive web design became a household term, and it’s critical that all front-end developers know how to use CSS media queries in 2022. The basic syntax for a CSS media query isn’t difficult to remember, but it’s not as easy to recall all the different media features you have access to when building responsive websites.

One of the hottest and admittedly controversial CSS frameworks to land on the front-end scene in recent years is Tailwind CSS, and this Tailwind CSS tutorial for beginners will try to get you up to speed with what it’s all about. I’ll cover the basics, along with why you might want to use a tool like Tailwind CSS to build your web pages, and how Tailwind changes your whole view of HTML and CSS.

This responsive images tutorial will go through CSS techniques, HTML features, and some tools you’ll want to consider. All of this should give you a good overview of getting started with responsive images in your projects today.

CSS Variables have been a standard now for almost ten years and all modern browsers have supported them for some time. In this tutorial, I’ll cover the basics of CSS Variables syntax and then I’ll go through some of the finer points of using CSS Variables (or custom properties) along with some practical use cases.

At some point, probably many years from now, a webpack tutorial for beginners like this one will be completely unnecessary. But currently, tools like webpack are needed for good code maintenance and high performance. In this article, we show you the first steps in bundling and serving HTML/JavaScript in an optimal fashion.

For some time, many CSS developers had been holding off on incorporating the CSS Grid Layout specification in real projects. This was due to either volatility of the spec, lack of browser support, or possibly not having the time to invest in learning a new layout technique. We're now at the stage that Grid Layout is safe to use in most projects, so I hope this CSS Grid Layout tutorial will help if you haven't yet fully examined this CSS feature.

There’s certainly no shortage of CSS flexbox tutorials and similar content online promoting and teaching flexbox to beginners. The now-ubiquitous layout technique can be learned from a number of different resources. But I hope this CSS flexbox tutorial for beginners will be a little different.

If you’re looking for a gentle introduction to using the Fetch API, a modern replacement for XMLHttpRequest-based Ajax-driven pages, this is the place to start!