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31 Front-End Development Study Topics to Improve Your Code Quality

Tim Winfred (They/He) on July 28, 2021

If you spend a lot of time doing front-end development, you know how big the the world of HTML, CSS and JavaScript are. I came up with this list of...

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kamal somani • Jul 30 '21

You can add javascript service workers in the list.

Tim Winfred (They/He) • Jul 30 '21

Thank you!

Martin • Aug 5 '21

The nitty gritty details about script loading order: inline scripts vs external scripts, synchronous loaded vs async loaded scripts, deferred scripts, and adding scripts programmatically later to the DOM (there be dragons)
the difference between ES5 and ES6 and how to transpile
ES5 fallback scripts with nomodule and ES6 module-based scripts.
automated polyfills: what can polyfill.io do for you? how to use corejs together with babel to automatically add needed polyfills?
bundling: what is the difference between a webApplication bundle and a library bundle? How to exclude dependecies in the latter case.
package.json: differences between dependencies, devDependencies, peerDependencies
module formats in js: commonJS vs UMD vs AMD vs ES6
learning why the IIFE pattern is relevant
Events in the UI: bubbling vs capturing phase and why it matters sometimes
Why e.stopPropagation breaks other components, and e.preventDefault is the way to go.
how the css property display: contents allows you to include wrappers for elements without destroying layouts that rely on direct-parent-child: like the flexbox
how the stacking-context allows you to never again need the z-index arms race with z-index: 999999; and the likes.
onBlur where will the focus go next? nice to know the FocusEvent.relatedTarget

Pranav Nag • Jul 28 '21

thanks for the information. much appreciated

Jeremy Bryant-Berg • Jul 29 '21

Awesome list! Thank you. I'm mainly a server-side dev, but have been increasing asked to develop frontend lately and I often feel like I'm back in school struggling to keep my head above water.