There’s a sort of blog post you’ve probably read - a sarcastic stab at JavaScript and npm and frameworks. There are too many, it’ll say, and it’s confusing, and how did we make such complicated things? It’ll grab names from the ecosystem and present them as equal choices in a comic attempt to construct decision paralysis. Everything moves too fast, and there is too much of it.

This is a well though-out response to that piece.

Here’s a fact: we build incredibly complex, exciting and beautfiful things on the web. The most democratic distribution system of information and – by now – a high fidelity and exciting software platform. If you think you know every facet of this, you can do it all without relying on other experts to work with you, and in the one technology you like, you’re blinded by your own ambition. And an arrogant person I really could not be bothered to work with.

The aim of CSS was to separate content and style but our layouts are as tied to our markup as ever. Grid layout has the chance to deliver a huge shift in the way we rationalise layout systems for the web and drastically reduce the complexity of the markup and styles currently required.

To help developers craft policies which meaningfully protect their applications, Google released a CSP Evaluator tool that helps visualize the effect of setting a policy and detect subtle misconfigurations.

Progressive Web Apps take advantage of new technologies to bring the best of mobile sites & native apps to users. They’re reliable, fast, and engaging. They originate from a secure origin and load regardless of network state.

Jamie Knight reveals the techniques the BBC uses to speed up its site and help users flow from one page to the next.

Why it can be worth spending 1 hour automating a 10 second task.