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Master.dev
Company blog · frontendmasters.com/blogwebprogramming
Master.dev is the company blog at frontendmasters.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2011, 110 different Hacker News readers have linked it 134 times, most often “Complete Intro to React (v5) with Brian Holt (Now Live)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Advance your web development and software engineering skills from front-end to full-stack!
Most-linked posts?
- Complete Intro to React (v5) with Brian Holt (Now Live)16 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2015-02-13
- Patterns for Reactivity with Modern Vanilla JavaScript5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-08-24
- Writing a TodoMVC App with Vanilla JavaScript in 20225 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-09-17
- Console.delight5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-01-15
- Front-end Developer Handbook 20194 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-04-12
- Why can't HTML alone do includes?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-29
- Front-End Developer Handbook3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-04-09
- Light-DOM-Only Web Components Are Sweet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-29
- Relatively New Things You Should Know about HTML Heading into 20252 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-09
- Frontend Masters: Front-End Development Training2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-05
What Hacker News says?
I've been working on thanks.dev for over two years now & reading this report is disappointing to say the least. Why not spend the time to explain the value XZ Utils created for all the commercial users & what companies can do to better supporting maintainers with hundreds of issues experiencing burnout from their unpaid work? OpenSSF should instead promote FOSS programs like https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-were…
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on “Social engineering takeovers of open source projects”Submitted YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable as a story · 400 points
HN discussionImagine someone made Deno with a corresponding course to go along with it. I would consider that a grift. https://frontendmasters.com/courses/remix/ That was the end goal for this whole thing. I do look at the pricing page (what are you trying to sell constantly?) on anything people put up on the internet and judge from there. You can have the last word and put in a testimonial for Remix, since I won't be budging on…
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on “The Frontend Treadmill”Submitted Why can't HTML alone do includes? as a story · 390 points
HN discussion> React takes us forward in the sense that most of us don't want to go back to direct DOM manipulation There was recently a demo of what a Todo MVC app might look like if written in vanilla JS with today's apis. It looks fairly decent; I could see myself going back to something like that: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/vanilla-javascript-todomvc/
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on “React I love you, but you're bringing me down”Submitted Console.delight as a story · 224 points
HN discussionThere's this article on using css highlights for syntax highlighting: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/syntax-highlighting-with-no...
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on “Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting”Submitted Front-End Developer Handbook as a story · 220 points
HN discussionhttps://frontendmasters.com/courses/javascript-hard-parts/ Will has a way to explain things is such a concise and clear yet entertaining way he's who I aspire to teach like
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on “Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?”Submitted What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (Spring 2024 Edition) as a story · 131 points
HN discussion"From full stack engineering to DevOps practitioner, our industry loves to pretend everyone can do everything." To me, this gets to the heart of the matter. As example, I present the required skillset for a front-end engineer: https://frontendmasters.com/guides/front-end-handbook/2018/ See the index on the left. Do you need to know everything about all of these things for every single project? No. But as you grow in…
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on “DevOps is broken”Submitted Front-end Developer Handbook 2019 as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI recently went through Sarah Drasner's workshop "Design for developers" https://frontendmasters.com/workshops/design-for-devs/ It went through exactly the points you mention in good detail. And she also showed implementation of some of these ideas on the web.
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on “Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?”Submitted Console.delight as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThat matches with the comment [1] on the article, citing insufficient demand, no vendor enthusiasm, etc. The thing is that all those are non-reasons that don't really explain anything: Low demand is hard to believe if this feature is requested for 20 years straight and there are all kinds of shim implementations using scripts, backend engines, etc. (And low demand didn't stop other features that the vendors were int…
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on “Why can't HTML alone do includes?”Submitted Front End Developer Handbook 2019 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI wrote this in Elm: https://ixberg.com . (feel free to sign up, use it, share it). I learned Elm by going to an intro course at Lambdaconf, and watching this https://frontendmasters.com/courses/elm/ and coding in it. Elm was my first PURE functional language. I've done some Scheme before. Backend is Firebase. No special libraries in particular. No regrets.
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on “Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable?”Submitted Light-DOM-Only Web Components Are Sweet as a story · 9 points
HN discussionChris now helps run the Frontend Masters blog (called Boost). It's got solid content (some from myself) on there! https://frontendmasters.com/blog/
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on “Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing”Submitted Writing a TodoMVC App with Vanilla JavaScript in 2022 as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThey're not free, but Jen Kramer's CSS courses on Frontend Masters are very good, and are pretty recent. https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/jen-kramer/ I attempted CSS back when you had to float anything/everything for positioning and found it extremely confusing. I recently picked it back up, and flexbox and grid make it sooo much easier. I feel like I'm finally getting it.
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on “Learn CSS layout the pedantic way (2015)”Submitted The Pitfalls of In-App Browsers as a story · 8 points
HN discussionWithout the shadow dom, your component can still have children. If you need several slots, there's an example duplicating that functionality with javascript in the second comment of this blog post: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/light-dom-only/
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on “Web components are okay”Submitted What We Learned from the First State of HTML Survey as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHey friends! This is Brian Holt, the author of course. Finding this on the front page of HN is an unexpected delight. Just wanted to let you all know that the accompanying videos for this are free too[1] (you just have to create an account.) [1]: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/web-development-v2/
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on “Introduction to Web Development (2018)”Submitted Custom Select (that comes up from the bottom on mobile) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHail Holy! Inside-jokes from the group chat aside, this is very good content. Holy's videos on Frontend Masters[1] are excellent as well. [1]: https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/brian-holt/
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on “Introduction to Web Development (2018)”Submitted Front End Masters $50k Experiment Supporting the Entire Dependency Tree as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWhen I was first learning about containers, I found the below course to be very helpful, which has a similar didactic trajectory to this article. https://frontendmasters.com/courses/complete-intro-container...
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on “The What, Why and How of Containers”Submitted Why can't HTML alone do includes? as a story · 6 points
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