In a recent issue of my newsletter, I briefly discussed many (if not all?) of the different ways you can retrieve a DOM element's dimensions via JavaScript.

These include getBoundingClientRect()'s width and height properties, offsetWidth and offsetHeight, window.getComputedStyle(), the document.styleSheets object, and scrollWidth and scrollHeight.

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I probably don’t need to tell you that if you want to make it easier marketing yourself as a strong front-end web developer, it's important to learn React. No, it’s not absolutely crucial, nor is it required. But React is undoubtedly the most important UI library in the front-end landscape in 2019 and it’s not going away anytime soon.

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You are probably aware that ECMAScript has something called Infinity, which is a numeric value that you can apply to any variable, the same way you can apply other numbers as values for variables.

Infinity of course is not the same as other numbers, so I thought I’d summarize, with examples, many of the quirks and useful facts around JavaScript Infinity and how it works.

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Over on CSS-Tricks, Chris breaks down what some in the industry have said on the possibility that there will one day be a CSS4. The latest article that Chris references is one by a well-respected member of the community, Peter-Paul Koch ("PPK").

In brief, PPK believes in initiating some sort of marketing gimmick wherein we basically try to repeat the success of the buzz surrounding "CSS3" by pushing the name "CSS4".

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Back in 2011, Paul Irish posted his personal list of frontend RSS feeds for front-end web developers. It was a great list, but after some time it needed some refreshing.

In 2014 I published my own list of categorized feeds for front-end developers. I cleaned up Paul's feed list quite a bit and added some new feeds, while splitting the feed up into manageable categories.

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I’ve been coding websites for a long time but even I was a little puzzled when I came across a Hacker News comment where the commenter described their own makeshift CMS that involves using your own file system. The most interesting part to me was when the person said they add CSS to pages on their personal projects by means of HTTP headers.

I had heard of this technique before and the person does say in the comment that this doesn’t work in every browser. But I decided to do some research to figure out how one might do this and why this would be easier than just dropping in one or more <link> elements in the HTML.

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You probably know that email newsletters can be one of the most effective methods of reaching people who want to connect with your organization or brand. An email newsletter template can help you jumpstart the process with a semi-custom design with a visual dynamic that will keep subscribers clicking. If you’ve never used an email […]