Articles by Smashing Magazine from March 2021

In this article, Michael Rispoli explains how he evaluated the decision of whether or not to adopt a serverless database for client projects. This decision will focus on three lenses: the functional a...

A complete guide to SVG generators — for everything from SVG shapes and cropping tools to SVG filters, color matrix mixers and SVG to JSX generators....

UX practitioners can play an important role in growing the UX maturity of the organizations and products they work with. This article, the second in a three-part series, presents two additional tactic...

How do we get media performance right while staying within performance budgets? Lets take a look at the recent stats and data around performance budgets, video playback performance issues and some tec...

Reactivity is the ability for a variable (array, string, number, object, etc) to update when its value or any other variable that it makes reference to is changed after declaration....

Eleventy (aka 11ty) is rising in the ranks among static site generators. This Node-based builder is attractive due to its zero-config starting point, purely static output, and ease of achieving the co...

One of the drivers of the popularity of headless options is that expectations for the quality of user experience are constantly going up. We have a wealth of tools to help developers build things fast...

Reliable accessible front-end components: :focus styles, content sliders, dark mode, data charts, date pickers, form styles, navigation menu, modals, radio buttons, "skip" links, SVGs, tabs, tables, t...

Reliable accessible front-end components: :focus styles, content sliders, dark mode, data charts, date pickers, form styles, navigation menu, modals, radio buttons, "skip" links, SVGs, tabs, tables, t...

Wondering whats happenin at Smashing? Well, weve been busy. Heres a little story of how we removed floating labels, improved performance on mobile, and launched a new series of articles. Oh, and how y...

The secret to growing a successful web design business is thinking of design as a service, not a product. When you focus on recurring revenue and sell to one targeted niche, you can grow a business fa...

Flutter has been transitioning from a cross-platform mobile development SDK for Android/iOS into a tool that allows you to run the same code natively in a browser on Windows, Linux and macOS. With Flu...

Flutter has been transitioning from a cross-platform mobile development SDK for Android/iOS into a tool that allows you to run the same code natively in a browser on Windows, Linux and macOS. With Flu...

How do we know which patterns are good, better, best when it comes to accessibility? Is it better to use an established pattern/library or create new ones? With the myriad of choices available, we can...

In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. This time its all about CSS Generators: from CSS shadows to easing gradients to CSS o...

We all benefit when we work to increase the overall UX maturity of our organizations. This article explores the concept of UX maturity, and focuses on finding and utilizing UX champions, and demonstra...

In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers to get their work done better and faster. Starting out with a few tools for getting to...

For a lot of web scraping tasks, an HTTP client is enough to extract a pages data. However, when it comes to dynamic websites, a headless browser sometimes becomes indispensable. In this tutorial, we ...

Meet our new workshops on front-end and UX on web performance, interface design, psychology and modern CSS. With Lea Verou, Harry Roberts, Stephanie Eckles, Dan Mall and so many others. [Jump to all o...

In the world of serverless applications, Webiny is becoming a popular way to adopt the serverless approach of building applications by providing handy tools that developers can build their apps upon. ...

To inspire mobile designers, lets look at how some clever design solutions tackle mobile navigation, confirmation dialogs, animations, and gamifying the waiting experience....

Our lives as UI designers have never been easier with a host of amazing tools at our disposal. In this article, Paul Boag explores some of the useful tools that he keeps close at his work....

In this article, well look at how to create an outside focus and click handler with React. We will recreate an open source react component react-foco from scratch in doing so....

With mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic these days, leaving your mobile performance unoptimized isnt really an option. In this article, well discuss the complexity and challenges of...

As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether youre addicted to Instagram, message your family on WhatsApp, buy products from Etsy or Google i...

Our wallpapers post this month is a special one: Theres not only a new collection of wallpapers created by creative folks from across the globe waiting for you, but well also award a smashing prize to...