Notable Community Members

Context: frontend-dev-bookmarks / Ecosystem

Important engineers, evangelists, architects and other celebrities.

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+ Addy Osmani: Engineer at Google working on open web tooling. + Learning JavaScript Design Patterns: In this free book Addy Osmani explores applying both classical and modern design patterns to the JavaScript programming language. + Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture: An extensive overview by Addy Osmani of existing architectural solutions in the frontend development field. + Writing Modular JavaScript With AMD, CommonJS & ES Harmony: In this article Addy Osmani reviewes several of the options available for writing modular JavaScript using modern module formats AMD, CommonJS and ES6 Modules. + Alex Sexton: Alex Sexton is an engineer at Stripe. He is on the Modernizr core team, the jQuery Board of Directors, as well as the Dojo Foundation Board. + Modernizr: It’s a collection of superfast tests – or “detects” as we like to call them – which run as your web page loads, then you can use the results to tailor the experience to the user. + André Staltz: Founder of the cycle.js framework and important contributor to ReactiveX. + Cycle.js and Functional Reactive User Interfaces: In this talk we will discover how Cycle.js is purely reactive and functional, and why it’s an interesting alternative to React. + Dynamics of Change: why Reactivity Matters: In this talk we will see when passive or reactive strategy is advantageous, and how the reactive strategy is a sensible default. + MVI in Cycle.js Docs: André Staltz describes how to refactor an application into MVI pattern. + Nothing New in React and Flux Except One Thing: Andre Staltz talks about aspects of React and Flux which make them innovative and compelling. + RxMarbles: A webapp for experimenting with diagrams of Rx Observables, for learning purposes. + Some Problems with React/Redux: André Staltz goes through the pros and cons of React + Redux. + The Introduction to Reactive Programming: André Staltz provides a complete introduction to the Reactive Programming and RxJS. + Unidirectional Data Flow Architectures (Talk): Andre Staltz compares modern architecture patterns including Flux, Redux, Model-View-Intent, Elm Arch and BEST. + What if the User was a Function?: In this video André Staltz talks about the input/output cycle between humans and computers and how to take advantage of this model by using FRP and event streams. + Why We Built Xstream: The authors needed a stream library tailored for Cycle.js. It needs to be “hot” only, small in kB size and it should have only a few and intuitive operators. + Xstream: An extremely intuitive, small, and fast functional reactive stream library for JavaScript. + Why We Built Xstream: The authors needed a stream library tailored for Cycle.js. It needs to be “hot” only, small in kB size and it should have only a few and intuitive operators. + Brad Frost: Web designer, speaker, writer, consultant, musician, and artist in beautiful Pittsburgh. + Atomic Design: Atomic Design discusses the importance of crafting robust design systems, and introduces a methodology for which to create smart, deliberate interface systems. + A More Seamless Workflow — Style Guides for Better Design and Development: Ash Connolly explains what styles guides are and which benefits they bring to designers and developers. + Atomic Docs: Atomic Docs is a styleguide generator and component manager. Atomic Docs is built in PHP. Inspired by Brad Frost’s Atomic Design principles. + Atomic Lab: Template sharing and coding environment based on atomic design. + Responsive Navigation Patterns: The article describes some of the more popular techniques for handling navigation in responsive designs. + Brian Lonsdorf: Lead UXE Engineer at Salesforce, JavaScript developer and speaker known for his work in functional programming community. + A Million Ways to Fold in JS: Brian Lonsdorf provides many functional alternatives to loops in this video. + Debugging Functional: This post will demonstrate a simple solution that can go a long way to enhance the debugging experience in functional JavaScript applications. + Free Monads Video Series: A video series on free monads by Brian Lonsdorf explaining Coyoneda, Free Monad and Interpretors. + Freeky: Collection of free monads by Brian Lonsdorf. + Hey Underscore, You’re Doing It Wrong!: In this talk Brian Lonsdorf gently takes a shot at underscore.js for not thinking about currying and partial function application in its library design. + JSAir - Functional and Immutable Design Patterns in JavaScript: An episode of JavaScript Air about “the how and why of functional programming and immutable design patterns in JavaScript” with Dab Abramov and Brian Lonsdorf as guests. + Lenses Quick n’ Dirty: A video by Brian Lonsdorf that introduces lenses. + Lenses.js: Composable kmett style lenses. + Monad a Day: Reader: Short video by Brian Lonsdorf about the Reader Monad. + Monad a day 1: Reader: A video by Brian Lonsdorf explaining the Reader Monad. + Monad a day 2: Future: Brian Lonsdorf explains the Future monad in this video. + Monad a day 3: State: Brian Lonsdorf explains the State monad in this video. + Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming: A book by Brian Lonsdorf that introduces algebraic functional programming in JavaScript. + Charles Max Wood: Podcaster at Devchat.tv, organizer of remote confs such as Angular RC, React RC, Rails RC. Software consultant and developer. + Adventures in Angular: Adventures in Angular is a weekly podcast dedicated to the Angular JavaScript framework and related technologies, tools, languages, and practices. + JavaScript Jabber: A weekly podcast about JavaScript, including Node.js, Front-End Technologies, Careers, Teams and more. + Chris Coyier: Designer at Codepen. Writer at CSS-Tricks. Podcaster at ShopTalk. + Responsive Data Tables: Several ideas by Chris Coyier on how to deal with responsive tables. + Douglas Crockford: Computer programmer who is best known for his ongoing involvement in the development of the JavaScript language, for having popularized the data format JSON, and for developing JSLint and JSMin. + Monads and Gonads: In this video from YUIConf 2012, Douglas Crockford attempts to break the long-standing Monad tutorial curse by explaining the concept and applications of monads in a way that is actually understandable to the audience. + Prototypal Inheritance in JavaScript: An article by Douglas Crockford introducing the Object.create() method and describing the rational behind it. + James Long: Works on Firefox Developer Tools at Mozilla. + A Study on Solving Callbacks with JavaScript Generators: This article describes how Generators help fight callback hell. + Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome: In this post James Long tries not to evangelize React specifically, but to explain why its technique is profound. + Transducers.js Library by James Long: A small library for generalized transformation of data (inspired by Clojure’s transducers) + Transducers.js Round 2 with Benchmarks: Refactored version of Transducers.js, some benchmarks, Laziness, the transformer protocoll. + Transducers.js: A JavaScript Library for Transformation of Data: A post announcing the transducers.js library with some explanation. + Transducers.js Round 2 with Benchmarks: Refactored version of Transducers.js, some benchmarks, Laziness, the transformer protocoll. + Transducers.js: A JavaScript Library for Transformation of Data: A post announcing the transducers.js library with some explanation. + Jonathan Snook: A web designer and developer who is currently UX Architect at Xero. Former lead frontend developer at Shopify. + SMACSS: SMACSS (pronounced “smacks”) is a way to examine your design process and as a way to fit those rigid frameworks into a flexible thought process. It is an attempt to document a consistent approach to site development when using CSS. + Mikito Takada (mixu): Software engineer at Stripe. + Learn CSS Layout the pedantic way: Walks you through every major concept in CSS layout, without trying to simplify away the underlying mechanisms described in the CSS 2.1 and flexbox specs. + Single Page Apps in Depth: This free book is what I wanted when I started working with single page apps. It’s not an API reference on a particular framework, rather, the focus is on discussing patterns, implementation choices and decent practices. + Nicholas C. Zakas: Former principal front-end engineer at Yahoo! and YUI developer. Leads a team of frontend engineers at Box now. + Box Tech Talk: Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture: A video by Nicholas Zakas (2012) about JavaScript Architecture. + Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture: In this video (2011) Nicholas Zakas discusses frontend architecture for complex, modular web applications with significant JavaScript elements. + T3: T3 is a minimalist JavaScript framework sponsored by Box Inc. that provides core structure to code. + Understanding ECMAScript 6: Free (as in pay what you want) E-Book by Nicholas C. Zakas describing the new features in EcmaScript 6. + Nicolas Gallagher: Frontend Engineer at Twitter. + Normalize.css: A modern, HTML5-ready alternative to CSS resets. + Pete Hunt: Co-founder & CEO @HelloSmyte. Ex-FB and Instagram. Worked on React.js. + Functional DOM Programming: One of the earliest intros to React and its purpose by Pete Hunt. + React: Rethinking best practices (2013): A video introduction to React by Pete Hunt. + Why did we build React?: Pete Hunt tries to explain why Facebook devs built React in the first place.

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