Bi-Weekly Frontend News

Collective #678




Developer Decisions For Building Flexible Components

In this article, Michelle Barker walks us through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors.

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YT-DLP

A youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project.

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Using the platform

Elise Hein shows how important it is to "know the platform" and be able to develop web apps without frameworks or build tools.

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Pollen

Pollen is a TailwindCSS-inspired library of CSS variables for rapid prototyping, consistent styling, and as a zero-runtime utility-first foundation for your own design systems.

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SVGOMG

Jake Archibald released a new version of this great tool powered by SVGO v2.5.0.

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Madbox

Madbox is a mobile gaming company and for their new website they collaborated with Bruno Simon. There's also this awesome little game that you can play in the browser.

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