
How to Hire a JavaScript Developer
Hire a JavaScript developer by assessing responsibilities, core front‑end skills, framework knowledge, problem solving, collaboration, and hiring sources.
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Front‑end web development is my personal niche, it is the art of creating visual and interactive elements for a website, including layout, design, and interactivity, using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Below you will find a subset of articles from my blog specifically about Front‑End Development. This is an area that I have worked with for many years, and have managed to write about quite a few times. There are three hundred thirty‑seven collected together for you below.

Hire a JavaScript developer by assessing responsibilities, core front‑end skills, framework knowledge, problem solving, collaboration, and hiring sources.

Hire a freelance front‑end developer by clarifying scope, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, testing, performance, debugging, frameworks, and collaboration needs.

Change placeholder text colour with CSS ::placeholder, including browser defaults, form styling, input states, and accessible use of placeholder copy.

Freelance front‑end developers can earn a wide range of salaries depending on their skills, experience, location, and the type of projects they take on.

Lead and senior front‑end roles overlap, but they are not the same job. This article looks at delivery, ownership, mentoring, and decision‑making.

What front‑end development means, what front‑end developers actually build, and how HTML, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, and performance fit together.

Front‑end web development explained through HTML, CSS, JavaScript, UI work, browser behaviour, back‑end integration, and what front‑end developers do.

db‑connectIn CSS, db‑connect is a misunderstood but immensely useful technique for connecting to databases directly from vanilla CSS in order to access stored properties.

Compare React functional, class, and pure components, including reusable component design, presentation boundaries, legacy patterns, and when each fits.

What a software engineer does day to day, from understanding requirements and writing code to testing, maintenance, teamwork, and long‑term system improvement.

It is fair to say that the programming and technology job markets are fairly buoyant, and now has never been a better time to make a career change.

Preview Mode in Next.js explained with a headless CMS, draft content workflows, preview cookies, and how editors can see unpublished pages safely.

Website theft is frustrating, but there are practical ways to spot it and respond. This guide covers copied text, copied code, and escalation options.

Sort object keys in JavaScript by extracting entries, ordering keys, rebuilding objects, and understanding when predictable key order is useful clearly.

Disable Gatsby telemetry cleanly, with context on what anonymous analytics collect, why teams opt out, and how the setting affects local and CI work.

p Tags from Contentful List ItemsOne of the quirks of rendering Rich Text from Contentful is that list items come wrapped in paragraph <p> tags. Fortunately, this is a simple one to resolve.

Contentful rich text and Gatsby work well together until code snippets enter the picture. This guide shows how to render inline and block code cleanly.

An exploration of array‑like objects in JavaScript. Explanations of their unique characteristics and how to navigate them easily in front‑end development.