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A List of Useful Resources for Front End Developers

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Learning

  • A Complete Guide to Flexbox | CSS-Tricks - A comprehensive guide to the Flexbox Layout.
  • A Complete Guide to Grd | CSS-Tricks - A comprehensive guide to the Grid Layout.
  • Command Line Power User - A video series for web developers on learning a modern command line workflow with ZSH, Z and related tools.
  • CSS Grid - Complete video course all about CSS Grid
  • Best Of JS ๐Ÿ‘ A site to check best GitHub repos for your favorite js framework
  • CodeCademy ๐Ÿ‘ - A series of interactive courses teaching the world how to code. Offering free and paid subscriptions across a variety of languages.
  • Coursera - A selection of courses from highly reputable schools like Stanford and Yale.
  • CSS Almanac | CSS-Tricks ๐Ÿ‘ - A quick reference guide to many features of CSS.
  • Design Resources - Design Resources from Skullface.
  • dev.to ๐Ÿ‘ - Where programmers share ideas and help each other grow.
  • edx - A series of University-level courses from Harvard, MIT, Wharton and more.
  • EggHead - Web development video tutorials in "bite-size" segments. Has both free and "Pro" (paid) memberships.
  • Enboard | Front End Resources ๐Ÿ‘ - Organized resources about front end development.
  • Flexbox ๐Ÿ‘ - Level up your Flexbox knowledge โ€“ an online, Zombie-centric story course.
  • freeCodeCamp ๐Ÿ‘ - A free resource incorporating programming projects and interview preparation for developer jobs.
  • GeeksforGeeks ๐Ÿ‘ - A computer science portal for geeks.
  • LearnAnything - Search interactive mind maps to learn anything.
  • Mastering Markdown - A Mini Series that will change how you write documentation.
  • Mozilla Developer Network ๐Ÿ‘ - The latest information about Open Web technologies.
  • Pluralsight - Unlimited online developer training from industry experts.
  • Saylor - An open, online learning solution offering college credit opportunities for students.
  • Scrimba
  • Scotch - Many Web development courses. Has both free and "Premium" (paid) memberships.
  • Search Courses - A selection of trending courses and tutorials.
  • Team Treehouse - Self-paced learning across a variety of languages and subjects.
  • The Odin Project - An Open-Source Curriculum for Learning Web Development
  • Tutorials point - Tutorials for many different languages with interactive code examples.
  • Udacity ๐Ÿ‘ - Learn anything online โ€“ deep learning, machine learning, front end languages.
  • Udemy - An online learning and teaching marketplace.
  • Watch and Codeยฎ - Build a strong JavaScript foundation for web development.
  • W3School - Web developlment reference library. Covers HTML, CSS, Javascript (jQuery, AJAX, and more), as well as some server-side languages. Includes descriptions and interactive examples.
  • Web APIs | MDN - Everything a beginner needs to know about Web APIs.
  • Web Design in 4 minutes by Jeremy Thomas creator of Bulma CSS and marksheet.io.
  • WesBos - Free and premium courses in web development
  • Web Dev Tricks - All your CSS, js, jQuery trending codes with source codes in one place. Your handy partner for all types of modern web development and designs.
  • web.dev - Guides and resources for modern fast websites by google developers.
  • Syntax - Front end development podcasts by Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski from Leve Up Tuts.
  • Front-end masters - In-depth, modern front-end engineering courses.
  • Become a Front-End Web Developer - Develop competency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.

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A11y

  • A11y Style Guide - A living style guide or pattern library, generated from KSS documented styles...with an accessibility twist.
  • Axe - Accessibility testing toolkit.
  • Colour Contrast Analyser - CCA helps you determine the legibility of text and the contrast of visual elements, such as graphical controls and visual indicators.
  • Deque University - Online courses on web and mobile accessibility skills.
  • W3C Intro to Web Accessibility - Strategies, standards, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities.

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YouTube Channels

  • 1stWebDesigner - Tutorials on: WordPress, PSD to HTML
  • Brad Hussey - Tutorials on: Bootstrap, SASS, jQuery, PHP, Freelancing
  • CSS Tricks - YouTube channel of well-known web design and development blog CSS Tricks by Chris Coyier.
  • Coderโ€™s Guide - Tutorials on: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap
  • Derek Banas - Tutorials on: C#, Visual Basic, Django, Python, NodeJS, AngularJS, MongoDB, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, Ruby on Rails, Java, SQLite, Android, HTML, PHP, Objective C
  • DevTips - Tutorials on HTML5, CSS, SASS, Bootstrap, Foundation, jQuery, Ruby on Rails, GitHub.
  • Elzero Web School - Arabic only
  • freeCodeCamp - Tutorials on: JQuery, JavaScript, React, Math, Science, Software Engineering, Open source software
  • Fun Fun Function - Tutorials on JavaScript, React, Functional Programming, GraphQL, Life as a Developer
  • Google Chrome Developers - Latest and greatest talks on modern web development with pro-tips, insights, and techniques to help you level up your web development skill.
  • LearnCode.academy - Tutorials on: HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, React JS / Redux, Node JS
  • LevelUpTuts - Tutorials on: HTML, CSS, SASS, WordPress, Magento,Drupal, React, Meteor
  • Mackenzie Child - Design to Code Challenge - Tutorials on UI, how to design & code multiple styles of sites.
  • The Coding Train - Tutorials on JavaScript, Node, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Algorithms
  • The Net Ninja - Tutorials on: HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, Git and GitHub, Bootstrap, MangoDB, PSD to WordPress, PSD to HTML, and many more.
  • TheDigiCraft - Tutorials on: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, Ajax, Bootstrap, MySQL.
  • thenewboston - Tutorials on: ECMAScript 6, React JS / Redux, Django, Angular 2, Gulp, Git, Python, SEO, SASS, SCSS, Grunt, Illustrator, MongoDB, PHP, Java, Ruby, Objective C
  • Traversy Media ๐Ÿ‘ - Tutorials on: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, Ajax, Bootstrap, MySQL, ECMAScript 6, React JS / Redux, Django, Angular, Ionic, Gulp, Git, Python, Node JS, PHP, Laravel, Cake PHP, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Programing Tips

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Blogs

Podcasts

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Code Editors

  • Atom - Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the coreโ€”a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file. Open Source | All Platforms
  • Brackets - With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. It's crafted from the ground up for web designers and front-end developers. Open Source | All Platforms
  • Notepad++ - Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Windows Only
  • Sublime Text - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. All Platforms
  • Vim - Vim is a highly configurable text editor for efficiently creating and changing any kind of text. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X.
  • Visual Studio Code - Code editing Redefined. It has syntax highlighting and autocompletion with IntelliSense, Git commands built-in, Extensible and customizable. Open Source | All Platforms
  • UltraEdit - UltraEdit is a powerful HTML and Code editor available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. It comes with a built-in file comparison utility, autocompletion, advanced layout, multi-tab, multi-pane editors, and syntax highlighting for the most popular programming languages.

Visual Studio Code Extensions

  • Auto Rename Tag - When you rename one HTML/XML tag, automatically rename the paired HTML/XML tag.
  • Better Comments - This extension color codes various types of comments to give them different significance and stand out from the rest of your code.
  • Bracket Pair Colorizor - Colors matching brackets to make your code much more readable very helpfull.
  • Code Spell Checker - A basic spell checker that works well with camelCase code.
  • ES Lint - Javascript linter for highlighting code errors and best practices.
  • Formatting Toggle - A VS Code extension that allows you to toggle the formatter (Prettier, Beautify, โ€ฆ) ON and OFF with a simple click.
  • Git History - View git log, file history, compare branches or commits
  • GitLens - Supercharge the Git capabilities built into Visual Studio Code โ€” Visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more.
  • Live server - A Quick Development Live Server with live browser reload.
  • Material Icon Theme - Google Material themed icon pack.
  • Path Intellisense - As you start typing a path in quotations, you will get intellisense for directories and file names.
  • Peacock - Subtly change the workspace color of your workspace. Ideal when you have multiple VS Code instances and you want to quickly identify which is which.
  • Polacode - You know those fancy code screenshots you see in articles and tweets? Well, most likely they came from Polacode. It's super simple to use. Copy a piece of code to your clipboard, open up the extension, paste the code, and click to save your image!
  • Prettier - Format your code automatically on save.
  • Settings Sync - Settings Sync extension save your setting off in Github. Then, you can load them to any new version of VS Code with one command.

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Tools

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CSS Frameworks

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Icons

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Colors

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Typography

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Design Inspiration

  • Admire The Web - Admire the Web is where we showcase the very best in website design inspiration - carefully curated and organised to keep you inspired.
  • Awwwards - The Website Awards that recognize and promote the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world.
  • Dribble - Dribbble is where designers gain inspiration, feedback, community, and jobs and is your best resource to discover and connect with designers worldwide.
  • Site Inspire - siteInspire is a showcase of the finest web and interactive design.
  • Web design Inspiration - Find inspiration for your next web design project. We help web designers, digital agencies and entrepreneurs to be inspired. Everyday, our team of experts hand picks the best new web designs from all over the world.

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Animation Frameworks

  • Animate CSS - Choose, try out and get the CSS-Code for different animation types (over 70)
  • Bounce JS - Tool and JS Library, creating CSS3 powered animations(adjustments possible) & export CSS code
  • Magic Animations - Showcase of different animations with link to GitHub repo
  • Partcles JS ๐Ÿ‘
  • Typed JS - A JavaScript typing animation library with a great documentation on GitHub
  • Wow JS - JavaScript library: Reveal CSS animation as you scroll down a page

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Stock Resources

  • Free stock images and Videos - A great collection of stock photos, videos and other resources. Most of them under the CC0-License, all of them free.
  • Gratisography - Photographer Ryan McGuire provides this collection of high-resolution pictures for free. You can use them on your personal or commercial project free of copyright restrictions.
  • Humaaans - Library of editible people illustrations. Free for both commercial and personal use.
  • Iโ€™d Pin That! - Created to help bloggers and non-designers create high quality images like those often seen on Pinterest. Iโ€™d Pin That is more than just a source for free images โ€” it is an image editor! Use the tools provided here to add your own text and edit the images right on the site.
  • MakerBook - The best free resources for creatives - A directory of sites to get free resources (Photography, Mockups, Graphics, Textures, Fonts, Colours, Video, Audio & Tools).
  • Morguefile - Founded in 1996 by college student Michael Connors.Photographers contribute images to Morguefile for visitors to use in their creative projects. Yes, theyโ€™re all completely free. The website does ask that you credit the photographer when possible.
  • Pexels - Exclusively stock photos of high quality, great feature: Filter photos by color.
  • Pixabay - In addition to photos, Pixabay offers video, vectors and illustrations.
  • Public Domain Archive - โ€œa public domain image repositoryโ€ created by Matt a graphic designer, web designer and photographer.Vintage and modern images.
  • Picalls - Free photos and wallpapers licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 license.
  • StockSnap.io - High quality stock photos free to download and use. Licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 license.
  • The Stocks - Another awesome directory sharing sites for resources, loading directly on the webpage
  • The Open Photo Project - The Open Photo Project is a photo sharing platform created in 1998 by Michael Jastremski. Contributors have offered their images free of charge under terms of Creative Commons licensing.
  • UnSplash ๐Ÿ‘ - "Beautiful, Free Photos" & themed collections of photos
  • UnDraw ๐Ÿ‘ - "MIT licensed illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

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Geolocation

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APIs

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Mockups

  • Am I Responsive - This is a tool to check the responsiveness of a website and take a screenshot on multiple devices in a single frame. Go to the site and enter the URL to capture the screenshot. You should have separate screen capture tool to take the proper screenshot.
  • Figma ๐Ÿ‘ - Free app with a simple to use surface for designing, prototyping and sharing your website and app ideas
  • Magic Mockups - Place your product in realistic environment! Free real-life product/app mockup generator. Laptop, Phone, Tablet, Imac.
  • MockupsJar ๐Ÿ‘ - Build mockups with screenshots of your application or web Design for free to share with customers and clients
  • MockUPhone - Free and simple screenshots device mockups generator. Wrap your design in mobile devices or Laptop/Desktop in a few clicks!
  • Wireframe.cc - Great tool for sketching out ideas and layouts, super minimalistic
  • Multi Device Website Mockup Generator - Multi device website mockup generator is free online tool to test your responsive website on apple devices including Apple iMac, MacBook, iPad and iPhone. This tool is very helpful for theme developers to mockup the web template on various apple devices with a single click. You should have a proper screen grabber tool to take the screenshot from the browser.
  • The MockUp Club

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Books

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Challenges / Games

  • Codepen Challenges - Each month has a theme and every week there is a new challenge prompt that you can use to build a project online using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The best projects are featured on Codepen's homepage.
  • Codewars - Improve your skills by training with others on real code challenges.
  • CSS Diner - It's a fun game to learn and practice CSS selectors.
  • CSS Zen Garden - A demonstration of what can be accomplished through CSS-based design, and a chance to do your own.
  • Flexbox Defense - It is a game that covers the flex properties align-items, justify-content, flex-direction, align-self and has 12 different levels.
  • Flexbox Froggy - This game is also about Flexbox and it covers even more flex properties: align-items, justify-content, align-content, flex-direction, align-self, flex-wrap, flex-flow and has 24 different levels.
  • Grid Garden - Interactive CSS code game. Practice your CSS skills by watering your garden! It has 28 different levels to learn CSS Grid Layout.
  • JavaScript30 - A free challenge course, building 30 little projects with HTML, CSS and plain JavaScript.
  • Leetcode - Coding prolems to solve in a range of categories and difficulties
  • Hackerrank - Practice coding, prepare for interviews, and solve interview style coding challenges.

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Free Tools For Students

  • Student Developer Pack: The best developer tools, free for students via @githubeducation

  • JetBrains Student License: Free individual licenses of the award-winning professional developer tools from JetBrains for students and faculty members.

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YouTube Videos

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Testing

  • Jest - JavaScript testing framework
  • Mocha - JavaScript testing framework
  • Karma - JavaScript test runner
  • Istanbul - JavaScript test coverage tool
  • TestCafe - Node.js end-to-end testing
  • Cypress - JavaScript end-to-end testing framework
  • Sinon.JS - Standalone test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript
  • Chai - Assertation library for JavaScript testing

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