Web Developer & Web Design Articles You Need to Read

Welcome to these sets of blog post that will try and collate the best web developer and web design blog posts found across the web, either being recent articles, or ones I’ve stumbled upon which offer insights into today’s goings on. I’ll try and add a video or two in, and some images or GIFs to mix it up a bit.

This is not a computer created list, each of these links have been personally vetted to offer actual use to web developers and designers across the world.

Hope you benefit and even enjoy reading through these, and let me know if there are others that should be mentioned below too.

1 - AngularJS vs ReactJS

During the September 2014 hack day @ Liip explored the differences of these frameworks for large scale web applications. The findings are quite interesting.

2 - The Art of Debugging

An article related to a presentation given at Fronteers in Amsterdam in 2015. A well written informative and even funny article about debugging and how best to tackle it. In short… “Don’t write bugs!” no really, there’s a bit more than that!!

3 - Beauty and Brilliance of 3 different styles of GIFS

A great article showcasing 3 different types of GIFS, how they look, how they are created, and how they work. These are

Split Depth GIFs

http://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/10/Afkkhrx-Imgur.gif

Cinemagraphs

http://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/10/download.gif

and Perfect loops!

http://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/10/fjfPe5C-Imgur.gif

GIFS are going nowhere, and have become much more prevalent in recent times when movies are not a viable alternative! They’re also a lot smaller, and can be automatically viewed or played without user selection.

Video - What is a JS event loop?

Can otherwise be known as “non-blocking”, “callback”, “asynchronous”, “single-threaded” and “concurrency”. This video gives a intuitive understanding of what happens when JavaScript runs.