Front-end predictions for 2021 and beyond | Browser London

In the meantime, the increased adoption of intrinsic web design combined with APIs such as CSS’s min/max/clamp and JavasScript’s ResiveObserver provide ever better methods of ‘faking it’. These kind of implementations have gotten increasingly (maybe even dangerously?) elaborate over the last few months, and it’s hard to imagine that this trend will stop next year.

I’m hopeful we’ll see more smart ways of approaching container-first design, such as Mathias’s Raven and Heydon’s Watched Box.

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Over the last few years, the widespread use of micro-services has necessitated patterns such as Backend For Frontend (BFF), which introduces an intermediary between each client and the APIs which service it.

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Posted on February 12, 2021