Reading List (January 2017 edition)
José M. Pérez / January 16, 2017
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I have decided to collect some of the best posts and articles I have read during last days. It is inspired by 's reading lists and web development newsletters. I write it to keep track of interesting content for myself, but you might also find it useful.
Posts
- . Another excellent post by Filament Group. This time they talk about integrating HTTP/2 and ServiceWorker on their site, providing good performance and offline capabilities.
- . A post on how Google processes images in AMP articles to improve performance based on compression, responsive images and WebP. By the way, if you are into AMP, don't miss , which will be live-streamed.
- . Another post by Google, this time on upscaling small images while keeping crisp details and reducing the blurriness of traditional methods. The and can be run on mobile devices in real time.
- . A fun project in which you draw lines and get images from Google Maps to create an infinite line of rivers, roads or coastlines. It made me discover the structure.
- . A post by David Shariff, from Amazon, on the topics you should when interviewing for a front-end dev position.
- . A long and insightful post on writing a website mimicking React's approach using VanillaJS. If you like it, the same author wrote another good post called a few days ago.
Presentations
- . A deck by explaining Webpack 2 configuration, code-splitting, plugins, loaders, optimising bundles and more.
- . A short deck by from Netflix comparing react, preact and inferno. I can't find a recording, but I think it is a good overview of three libraries that are solving the same problem.
Videos
- . A very interesting documentary about the Web that and is now available to everyone for free. A must-watch for every web developer to understand the history of web development.