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How to keep up to date on Front-End Technologies English English Español Português Deutsch Français Polski Nederlands Hebrew 日本語 汉语 The recipe The web is a rapidly evolving universe. An important part of our job as front-end developers is keeping up to date and staying close to new tools, trends and workflows. Hundreds of blog posts and articles are published every day, but there is no way you can read all of them. We think you should have a strategy to keep up to date, so we have created this recipe. Follow these simple steps Follow cool people Find the best sources Attend conferences Get your own sources Follow cool people Front-end leaders help you to stay on top of relevant news and trends. They are in-the-know and they work on a specific topic. Twitter can be a great place to find people who are in-the-know. Addy Osmani @addyosmani JavaScript Alex Sexton @SlexAxton CSS JavaScript Angelina Fabbro @hopefulcyborg JavaScript Angus Croll @angustweets JavaScript Axel Rauschmayer @rauschma JavaScript Ben Alman @cowboy JavaScript Brad Frost @brad_frost Mobile Chris Coyier @chriscoyier CSS Christian Heilmann @codepo8 JavaScript Cody Lindley @codylindley JavaScript David Walsh @davidwalshblog CSS JavaScript Elijah Manor @elijahmanor JavaScript Eric Bidelman @ebidel HTML CSS JavaScript Estelle Weyl @standardista HTML CSS Hakim El Hattab @hakimel HTML CSS JavaScript Hugo Giraudel @HugoGiraudel CSS Ilya Grigorik @igrigorik Performance Jake Archibald @jaffathecake HTML CSS JavaScript John Resig @jeresig JavaScript Kyle Simpson @getify JavaScript Lea Verou @leaverou CSS JavaScript Luke Wroblewski @lukew Mobile Mathias Bynens @mathias HTML CSS JavaScript Nicholas C. Zakas @slicknet JavaScript Nicolas Gallagher @necolas HTML CSS Nicole Sullivan @stubbornella CSS Paul Irish @paul_irish JavaScript Rebecca Murphey @rmurphey JavaScript Sara Soueidan @SaraSoueidan CSS Sindre Sorhus @sindresorhus JavaScript Steve Souders @souders Performance Thomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs JavaScript Zeno Rocha @zenorocha HTML CSS JavaScript See full list Find the best sources Around the web there is lots of useful information about front-end news and trends, but sometimes it's too hard to find and read all of them. It's a mess and you will go crazy! Therefore, we have put together the best sources about news and trends in the front-end world. Blogs DailyJS A JavaScript Blog. The Morning Brew A Daily .NET Software Development Link Blog. Treehouse Blog The Treehouse blog provides valuable content on web development, web design, and startup tips. EchoJS A HackerNews-like site dedicated to JavaScript and Front-end News. .net Magazine .net is the world’s best-selling magazine for web designers and developers. Web Platform An open community of developers building resources for a better web. HTML5 ROCKS Posts, tutorials, case study & demos. HTML5 Doctor A blog to help you learn more about HTML5. Nettuts+ Tutorials, articles, tips, and community for web developers. QuirksMode It is the prime source for browser compatibility information on the Internet. CSS-TRICKS A web design community. CSS Wizardry A specialised blog in writing and scaling CSS for large apps and websites. Smashing Magazine An online magazine for professional Web designers and developers. 24 ways Geeks publish a daily dose of web design and development. A List Apart Design, development, and web content, focused on standards and best practices. JSCentral JavaScript news and links. JSGoodies Mainly web-focused; in particular, most are JS-focused. SitePoint An online media company providing cutting-edge content for web professionals. See full list Weekly News Open Web Platform Daily Digest Provides daily content about W3C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, the Web APIs, web browsers. Web Design Weekly Pure awesome links to the best news and articles to hit the interweb during the week. CSS Weekly Roundup of css articles, tutorials, experiments and tools. HTML5 Weekly Round-up of HTML5 and browser technology news and links. Responsive Design Newsletter Round-up of responsive design articles, tools, tips, tutorials and inspirational links. JavaScript Weekly A free, once–weekly e-mail round-up of JavaScript news and articles. Front-end Rapport Weekly front-end news and updates from the Lullabot team. A Drip of JavaScript One quick JavaScript tip, delivered to your inbox every other week. Mobile Web Weekly Releases, articles, and links that affect developers working on the mobile Web. Web Development Reading List A handcrafted, carefully selected list of web development related resources. Web Operations Weekly A weekly newsletter on Web operations, infrastructure, performance and tooling. See full list Podcasts Shoptalk A podcast about front end web design, development and UX. The Hanselminutes Hanselminutes Podcast is "Fresh Air" for developers. The Big Web Show The award winning Big Web Show features special guests and topics. It's everything web that matters. JavaScript Jabber A weekly podcast discussing the superb language JavaScript. The Web Ahead A weekly podcast about changing technologies and the future of the web. Five Minutes of JS The latest news in the JavaScript community. Responsive Web Design Podcast A Responsive Web Design Podcast, co-hosted by @karenmcgrane and @beep. See full list Attend conferences Thousands of developers attend conferences to promote the latest technologies, share ideas, thoughts or experiences and learn from others. They discuss the best practices, standards and trends. You should participate in order to meet awesome people and organizations who do what you do. Fronteers conference Conference of the Dutch non-profit trade organisation for front-end developers. Front Trends A gathering where front-end lovers and tech entrepreneurs discover the latest trends. HTML5DevConf Has become the largest JavaScript and HTML5 developers conference in the world. Fluent Conf JavaScript & Beyond Featuring the best in JavaScript and progressive Web development. Front End Ops Conf A 2-day conference in San Francisco dedicated to the emerging discipline of front end operations. ColdFront ColdFront is a one-day front-end conference in Copenhagen. See full list Get Your Own Sources It's really important that you find your own, unique way to be up to date. Take a look at how these great developers are doing it! I follow people on Twitter who produce new things. Some people like to follow just blogs, but I like to see what the people who make things recommend. My Twitter feed has sort of replaced my old RSS feed to some extent - I am way more likely to read an article recommended by someone who I see posting their repos alongside it. That kind of behavior tells me that the person is both an active developer and someone who thinks about their craft in most cases. I'm trying to spend more time on various W3C working group and specification mailing lists. There is a lot that goes over my head about the specific implementations of features that as a web developer I would take for granted every day. Sometimes keeping up is challenging, but I like a good challenge and as I stick around I learn more and more so I can ideally contribute more to the discussion in the future. There is a saying that goes around: "If you feel like you are the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room." Surround yourself with people who are intelligent but not cocky about it. Angelina Fabbro I live on Twitter. I depend on it to give me an idea of what's popular and upcoming, and also what problems people are dealing with. This influences the way I think and the projects I take on. I also still read web-related RSS feeds, books, magazines and more when I travel. The other big thing that I find essential for keeping up to date on new technology is to experiment. Find some time outside of your normal job to tinker with a project, contribute to someone else's, or play around with a new bit of technology. Play, fail, succeed, share, repeat. Brad ...