Section II

Core Skills for Effective Front-End Web Development

If you’ve read from the beginning to this point, you should have a solid understanding of the fundamentals needed for responsive web design. In fact, you’re likely a step ahead, in that you will be building your designs using the most recent layout mechanisms, Flexbox and Grid.

If we just needed to cover responsive web design, at this point, my work here would be pretty much done. But there is so much more we can look at.

This next section of the book aims to take you into more advanced and specialty areas. It’s not every day you will need to reach for a clamp function, or know when and why you would employ a where() selector. But in this section, we are going into greater depth, understanding what, primarily, CSS can offer you to solve the everyday challenges that are going to come your way as a developer.

Again, don’t think you need to remember all the detail of this stuff. Take it in, get a grasp of what’s possible, and know that you can dip back in in future, when you remember that “I think there’s a way to do that with CSS.”

There’s every chance that there probably is!