All the momentum is with JavaScript these days. Granted, frameworks are enabling some of the biggest sites out there, but they all rely on one core language - HTML.

Hot new HTML tags

Charts and graphs are one of those things that it's just easier to reach for a third-party library to help create. Something like D3 is the go-to choice in this situation, but that story gets complicated when throwing React into the mix. Who handles updates then? It can quickly turn in to a headache.

Generate Dynamic Charts with Victory

Ever tried making a form in a React app? At the start it might not seem so bad, but as it grows it turns into a beast. The redux-form package is often the go-to choice out there to help, but that relies on Redux and is a massive burden for a quote-unquote "simple" form.

Manage React form state with Formik

What can you do with some bluetooth buttons, web sockets and a spare weekend? Make a gameshow-style buzzer program, obviously...

Hacking Amazon Echo Buttons

CSS is the go-to technology for making sites look how we want. But there's a new box of tricks coming to JavaScript that could make styling that little bit more unique.

CSS Houdini

It's easy to overlook HTML in the age of JavaScript frameworks. These modern tools make it easy to make a `` do whatever you want - a header, a button, a link. Whatever, right? If it works it works...

HTML Now!

98% of homepages online have some kind of accessibility issue. By automatically checking for common problems with Pa11y, we can be more confident that we are not accidentally adding any new ones into the codebase.

Test a site's accessibility with Pa11y

Components are the future of web development. Right now, JS frameworks such as React and Vue use a component-based approach to building apps, but that comes with added weight.

Build a format component using Stencil

In the age of frameworks, Webpack and complicated build tools, regular boring JavaScript can easily be overlooked. Gone are the days of sites that only shipped the code they needed right? We need runtimes now to compile our JSX else who knows what will happen.

Build a blog with Sapper and Svelte

Animations can make or break a website. Without them it can lack personality, but with too many and it can become overwhelming. Even after finding the right balance, an unnatural movement can make a well-intentioned interaction seem jarring. All of this seems like we'd be fighting a losing battle.

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