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πŸ‘©β€πŸŽ¨ What's New In Frontend? β€” Weekly Picks #135

🌟 This week is really all about front-end! We present new features in Chrome, VS Code extensions, cool codepens, and more. As always, all posts were ranked by daily.dev community. Shout out to all the authors. πŸ‘

So, let's get it started.

1️⃣ 5 Underrated Apps for Programmers You Should Use Right Now

A list of the author's top 5 apps, I personally didn't know any of them πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ. Ungit, Termius, Alacritty, Byobu, and Spacedesk, for more information about them, check out the post. πŸ‘‡

5 Underrated Apps for Programmers You Should Use Right Now

2️⃣ πŸ”₯ What's Hot in Web Development? β€” Weekly Picks #134

πŸŽ– Last week's picks were great, hopefully, we can recreate this success again. 😊 It was all about React, Javascript, developers' productivity, and more.

πŸ”₯ What's Hot in Web Development? β€” Weekly Picks #134

3️⃣ Top 10 Visual Studio Extensions in 2020

We, developers, just love these top VS Code extensions lists. This week we have another list with pretty awesome extensions. My favorite from this list is probably "Import Cost" πŸ‘Ύ

Top 10 Visual Studio Extensions in 2020

4️⃣ Don't Call Yourself a Front-End Developer

The author presents his thinking that front-end developers have a "perception-problem". They are often underestimated due to what front-end development used to be. I'm not sure I agree with him, but it's definitely an interesting piece.πŸ€”

Don't Call Yourself a Front-End Developer

5️⃣ Why Low-Code Will Never Replace Developers

πŸ€– Low-code platforms are growing fast, and democratizing capabilities that used to be exclusive to developers. Platforms such as Wix and Webflow for website building and many others. Worry not, the author explains that professional skills are still very much needed.

Why Low-Code Will Never Replace Developers

6️⃣ three.js sample

A codepen that demonstrates how to build a sphere with three.js. 🌐

three.js sample

7️⃣ Animated Google Fonts 😎

We have another pen! Cool font animations, very colorful and neat. 🎨

Animated Google Fonts 😎

8️⃣ New in Chrome: CSS Overview

πŸ“£ New features in Chrome DevTools are always exciting! A new experimental feature will summarize for you the CSS of site. It shows color palette, fonts, media queries, and other properties.

New in Chrome: CSS Overview

9️⃣ Web Standards

Have you ever wondered who came up with HTML, HTTP and URI? This post covers briefly the history and evolution of web standards as we know them today. πŸ“œ

Web Standards

πŸ”Ÿ 15 Top Front-End Technologies To Rule The Market in 2020 and Beyond

πŸ†™ Pretty outdated list if you ask me as most of the libraries there are already dominating the market. Anyway this is a list of 15 popular front-end libraries.

15 Top Front-End Technologies To Rule The Market in 2020 and Beyond

πŸ™Œ Wrap Up!

That was all for this week. We will come back with another list of interesting development posts next week.


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