Six Easy Pieces for the New Front-end Development

conference: Drupalcon New Orleans 2016, New Orleans

Frontendia: a path from "Ye Olde Selector Hell" through the "Sea of Specificity" and past the "Isles of NPM installs"

Modern front-end devolopment has become a tangle of fast-moving technologies. Our job is to implement HTML, CSS, image formats, and JavaScript, but with over 200,000 JavaScript projects on NPM alone, how do you find and learn about the best tools and techinques? And even after we've learned a new tool, it can feel like our skills are soon out-dated.

How do you keep from sucking at this job?

I've been doing front-end development for 23 years and in this session we will be going over the core principles for learning and improving our front-end skills. Then we'll go through six easy pieces that descibe the essentials of front-end development. With numerous linked resources, you'll be able to tackle one piece at a time to modernize your own front-end practices.

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