Top 10 Front-end Resources For Web Developers
When discussing resources for web developers in the past, we have mainly looked at WordPress plugins that can help power up your websites. Today we are going to look at a collection of resources that revolve around front-end development such as CSS and JavaScript libraries. We have also included a few links to front-end development guidelines which will help to improve your front-end craftsmanship and workflow.
Library Resources for Web Developers
Bootstrap
Bootstrap is an open source toolkit for developing responsive, mobile first, web sites. It provides a variety of prebuilt HTML, CSS and Javascript elements that make front-end development tasks quick and easy.
Downloads, documentation, examples and a blog
Font Awesome
Font Awesome is an open source icon and logo library that you can include in any website. The syntax to implement any icon is simple and can be resized and styled as needed. All the icons are inserted using just a CSS class name in an HTML file.
Angular
Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using Typescript/JavaScript and other languages. The true power of Angular is in its scalability and the large community of users available for support.
Downloads, documentation, resources and blog
jQuery
jQuery is a fast, small, customizable and feature-rich JavaScript library. jQuery’s major strengths are its long history in the development community and actively supported plugin repository. It also works across the major web browsers.
Downloads, documentation, plug-ins and blog
Meteor
Meteor is an open source platform for building Javascript applications. Due to its well written library, it allow developers to write far less code to accomplish common web development tasks. Meteor also lets you write applications that work across multiple devices (web, iOS, Android).
Downloads, tutorials, and documentation
jQuery Mobile
jQuery mobile is an open source, touch-optimized web framework for Smartphones & Tablets.
Download, demos, documentation and blog
React
React is an open source, declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces. This library helps developers to write applications that perform better than normal.
Download, tutorials, documentation and blog
Modernizr
Modernizr is an open source library that allows developers to write code based on a web browsers features. This makes it easier for developers to address problems for users using older browsers with the latest web applications.
Downloads, documentation and blog
Normalize.css
Normalize.css is a small CSS file that provides better cross-browser consistency in the default styling of HTML elements. This library is included as a part of the Bootstrap distribution.
Google Fonts
Google Fonts is a catalog of free and open source web font types. These fonts help web sites perform better due to a small file size and safe web caching technology.
Summary
Many of these resources for web developers are used for most of our projects. These resources allow us to develop high performance web applications and web sites much faster. However, if you have any favorite resources for web developers, please leave us a comment.