The Differences Between Lead and Senior Roles in Front‑End Development
Lead and senior front‑end roles overlap, but they are not the same job. This article looks at delivery, ownership, mentoring, and decision‑making.
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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 I have worked with for many years, and it has been a regular subject in my writing. There are four hundred articles collected together for you below.
The Differences Between Lead and Senior Roles in Front‑End Development. 
What Does Front‑End Development Mean? What Does Front‑End Development Mean?
What front‑end development means, what front‑end developers actually build, and how HTML, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, and performance fit together.
What is Front‑End Development? What is Front‑End Development?
Front‑end web development explained through HTML, CSS, JavaScript, UI work, browser behaviour, back‑end integration, and what front‑end developers do.
Access CSS Variables from a Database via db-connect. Access CSS Variables from a Database via
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.
Incremental Static Regeneration and CMS Publishing Freshness. Incremental Static Regeneration and CMS Publishing Freshness
How Incremental Static Regeneration affects CMS publishing freshness, including rebuild timing, stale pages, previews, and editorial expectations.
React: Functional, Class, and Pure Components. React: Functional, Class, and Pure Components
Compare React functional, class, and pure components, including reusable component design, presentation boundaries, legacy patterns, and when each fits.
What Does a Software Engineer Do? What Does a Software Engineer Do?
What a software engineer does day to day, from understanding requirements and writing code to testing, maintenance, teamwork, and long‑term system improvement.
How to Find a Programmer Job. How to Find a Programmer Job
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 with a Headless CMS. Preview Mode in Next.js with a Headless CMS
Preview Mode in Next.js explained with a headless CMS, draft content workflows, preview cookies, and how editors can see unpublished pages safely.
Detecting and Dealing with Website Theft. Detecting and Dealing with Website Theft
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 the Keys of an Object with JavaScript. Sort the Keys of an Object with JavaScript
Sort object keys in JavaScript by extracting entries, ordering keys, rebuilding objects, and understanding when predictable key order is useful clearly.
Previewing CMS Content in Gatsby Workflows. Previewing CMS Content in Gatsby Workflows
Plan CMS preview in Gatsby workflows by setting expectations around draft content, preview builds, webhooks, deployment timing, and editor confidence.
Disabling Gatsby Telemetry. Disabling Gatsby Telemetry
Disable Gatsby telemetry cleanly, with context on what anonymous analytics collect, why teams opt out, and how the setting affects local and CI work.
Removing p Tags from Contentful List Items. Removing
pTags 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.
Rendering CMS Rich Text Safely in Gatsby and React. Rendering CMS Rich Text Safely in Gatsby and React
Render CMS rich text safely in Gatsby and React with explicit node mappings, internal links, embeds, code blocks, image handling, and sensible fallbacks.
Rendering Contentful Rich Code Snippets in Gatsby. Rendering Contentful Rich Code Snippets in Gatsby
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.
Why Gatsby and Contentful Work Well Together. Why Gatsby and Contentful Work Well Together
Why Gatsby and Contentful work well together for static sites, from content modelling and GraphQL data to fast pages, editor workflows, and trade‑offs.
What are Array‑Like Objects in JavaScript? What are Array‑Like Objects in JavaScript?
An exploration of array‑like objects in JavaScript. Explanations of their unique characteristics and how to navigate them easily in front‑end development.