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When you first start out with web development you’re probably opening html files right in your browser. You’re probably using relative urls like /styles/style.css  and this is working fine for you. Right up until you’re trying to load some files from a remote location and nothing really works anymore. You ask questions online and people tell you […]

One of the first questions a client might ask you when you start talking about his new website site is “Will it be responsive?”. And the answer to that question will more often than not be “Yes, it will”. Especially now that Google will penalize websites that aren’t mobile friendly it’s important that you make […]

Today Christian Heilmann posted this tweet, demonstrating a rather huge delay between page load and javascript execution. This huge delay made the page show things like {{venue.title}} for an awkward amount of time. Once the page has loaded for the first time you can refresh it and the {{venue.title}} won’t show. What it does still show, however, […]

When I first started using gulp I felt that the most annoying thing about it all was that I had to manually require  all my plugins. So on a large project I would get 20 lines of requiring plugins. Soon I was looking for a solution that would allow me to include plugins automatically and […]

Anybody who writes css for the modern web has probably touched vendor prefixes at some point in time. These prefixes are required to get the most out of browsers that are supporting bleeding edge properties in ways that aren’t yet part of the css3 spec. When you’re writing these vendor prefixes it’s easy to forget […]

Seriously, you should. Browsersync is a great tool that allows you to sync your browser on multiple screens. This might not sound that impressive, but in reality it is. It’s so impressive that I felt like I needed to make a .gif for you because you otherwise might not get how awesome Browsersync is. The above image shows […]

When you program something that involves complex logic it’s very easy to jump in head first and start typing away. The first couple of projects I did started like this, they weren’t very carefully planned out which meant that requirements would change all the time. This often resulted in buggy code and forgotten features. When I […]

When you’re working with Sass and use Gulp to compile your  .scss files it can happen that you introduce an error by accident. You misspell one of your mixins or variables and gulp-sass will throw an error. When this happens your Gulp task crashes and you have to restart it. When I started using Gulp […]

When working with assets you will often want to change some of them. My personal experience is that I often want to resize images, stitch them together, blur them or convert them from .png to .jpg. When I had to do this I usually sighed, fired up Photoshop, created a batch and then ran everything […]

Let’s talk about tools first Lately I’ve noticed that many Front-end developers get caught up in tools. Should they use Less, or Sass? Do they code in Sublime or Atom? Or should they pick up Coda 2? What frameworks should they learn? Is Angular worth their time? Or maybe they should go all out on […]