State is hard - Redux makes it a little easier. The first in a five-part series introduces the concepts of Redux to a beginner audience.

Manage React application data with Redux

React is great, but it's quite overkill for most sites. Downloading the framework and the content too before anything shows up? That's no good. Server rendering can help, but it's tricky to set up and is prone to issues if it's not kept on top of. Is there a way to get the composibility of React without any of the icky JS-only website stuff?

Create a static website with Gatsby

HTML doesn't get the attention it deserves. It's at the core of every page, site and application on the web but it's often forgotten about.

30 HTML, CSS and JS APIs

New things in JavaScript are popping up all the time. From frameworks to features, it never stands still. Keeping up is often a tricky and time-consuming process, but if we don't keep up we risk not making the best product we can.

JavaScript - What's new?

The best pieces of code are the ones that aren't written. Making generic, reusable classes has been the key to good development for the longest time. The same goes for React and its component system. Make a generic `` and build from there.

Develop reusable React components with Storybook

Web applications today are fast-moving, multi-user experiences. Things change all the time by people using the same resources. What happens if someone makes a change to a file someone else is also editing? The updates would need to be pushed out to everyone else involved.

Creating a Feedback App with React and WebSockets

CSS in large projects - particularly applications with frameworks like React - can be difficult to scale. Stylesheets tend to inflate over time when developers become too scared to delete old styles just in case they get used somewhere else. Even if they do, in component-based designs, there's every chance the styles and the code behind it become separated and lost when copying across projects.

Styling React with Fela

Making things for the web is endlessly complicated nowadays. There's so much to choose - the framework, the tooling, the asset management. Try as we might, testing ends up further down the list than it should. In the latest Net magazine I run down ten different ways to use testing to make a better product.

10 Tips For Better Testing

Compared to JavaScript, CSS doesn't seem to get as much fun stuff. Sure, there's things like CSS Grid and snap points, but nothing quite on the level of, say, service workers. Well, with Houdini they both come together and that's all going to change. In the latest Web Designer, we check out the first piece of the puzzle landing in browsers - the CSS Paint API.

Playing with the CSS Paint API

Let's face it. Working with JavaScript can takes its toll on the hardiest developer. Anything that can make that experience better is a welcome addition. Thankfully, in the latest Net Magazine there's 25 different things to help you out.

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