Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has taken the SEO and Web Performance worlds by storm and many sites are busy optimizing their Page Experience to maximize the ranking factor. The Cumulative Layout Shift metric is causing trouble to a lot of sites, so let’s have a look at ways of addressing any issues for that metric.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/how-to-fix-cumulative-layout-shift-issues/

Getting a good performance score from Google is hard for any website — but doing so for an online store is even harder. We achieved green scores — even several for mobile. Here is how we did it.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/front-end-performance-online-store-jewellerybox/

In this episode, we’re talking about React performance. What factors slow our React apps down, and how can we fix it? Drew McLellan talks to expert Ivan Akulov to find out.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/smashing-podcast-episode-38/

Amazon allows visitors to display prices in their own currency. Thanks to *ExchangeRatesApi.io*, we can do the same for our online shops, providing a better experience to our customers. Let’s find out how.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/currency-convertor-exchangeratesapi/

What could be a better way to welcome June than with some colorful inspiration? Well, we might have something for you: wallpapers created with love by artists and designers from across the globe.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/desktop-wallpaper-calendars-june-2021/

In this article, we’ll be re-using the foundational WYSIWYG Editor built in the first article to build a commenting system for a WYSIWYG Editor that enables users to select text inside a document and share their comments on it. Let’s dig in!

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/commenting-system-wysiwyg-editor/

Meet useful Visual Studio Code extensions for web developers: little helpers to minimize slow-downs and frustrations, and boost developer’s workflow along the way. With auto log messages, auto code formatting, file utils, file labels, code snippets, highlight brackets, tags, indents and workspaces, onboarding and remote SSH.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/useful-vs-code-extensions-web-developers/

While web builders have been around for a long time, it wasn’t until recently that they became practical for professional use. Closing the gap between design and code has become the north star for many companies and we are seeing a wave of tools that deliver on this promise.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/build-launch-responsive-websites-editorx/

Discover which SVG patterns we should avoid and which patterns are the most inclusive when comparing different combinations of OSs, browsers, and screen readers.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/accessible-svg-patterns-comparison/

Mistakes. These cruel villains do not even stop at the beautiful world of software development. But although we cannot avoid making mistakes, we can learn to undo them! This post will show the right tools for your daily work with Git.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/undoing-mistakes-git-part2/

Web fonts are often terrible for web performance and none of the font loading strategies are particularly effective to address that. Upcoming font options may finally deliver on the promise of making it easier to align fallback fonts to the final fonts.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/reduce-font-loading-impact-css-descriptors/

CSS Container queries bring media queries closer to the target elements themselves and enables them to adapt to virtually any given container or layout. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS container query basics and how to use them today with progressive enhancement or polyfills.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/css-container-queries-use-cases-migration-strategies/

Let’s build a rich text, WYSIWYG-editor that supports rich text, images, links and some nuanced features from word processing apps. We will use SlateJS to build the shell of the editor and then add a toolbar and custom configurations.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/building-wysiwyg-editor-javascript-slatejs/

Front-end and design are remarkably complex these days. That’s why we invite kind, smart folks from the community to run online workshops for all of us to learn together. And we have new ones coming up, and we’d like to kindly welcome you to join in.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/new-online-workshops-front-end-ux/

A step-by-step tutorial on adding authentication and authorization to your Next.js apps, with Auth0. We’ll be using a Next.js SDK to connect our application to the Auth0 API and will create the dynamic API route for React.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/implement-authentication-nextjs-auth0/

Everything to keep in mind when designing and building a mega-dropdown, common pitfalls, hover entry/exit delays, trajectory triangle technique and SVG path exit areas.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/frustrating-design-patterns-mega-dropdown-hover-menus/

Today, we are taking a closer look at [SVGator 3.0](https://www.svgator.com/?utm_source=article&utm_medium=smashingmag&utm_campaign=svgator3_smashing), a new major release of the popular SVG application that lets you create, edit and animate SVG files and make the best out of what SVG has to offer — from start to finish.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/create-edit-animate-svg-svgator3/

In this episode, we’re talking about VisBug. What is it, and how is it different from the array of options already found in Chrome DevTools? Drew McLellan talks to its creator Adam Argyle to find out.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/smashing-podcast-episode-37/

Google’s “Page Experience Update” will start rolling out in June. At first, sites that meet Core Web Vitals thresholds will have a minor ranking advantage in mobile search for all browsers. Search is important to any business, and this is the story of how Beau Hartshorne and his team at Instant Domain Search improved their Core Web Vitals scores.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/core-web-vitals-case-study/

“Tree-shaking” is a must-have performance optimization when bundling JavaScript. In this article, we dive deeper on how exactly it works and how specs and practice intertwine to make bundles leaner and more performant. Plus, you’ll get a tree-shaking checklist to use for your projects.

https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/tree-shaking-reference-guide/