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29th December 2017 - Link Blog

Frontend in 2017: The important parts. Keeping track of developments in the frontend and JavaScript community is pretty much a full time job here days, so I found this summary of trends and developments over 2017 very useful for trying to catch up.

Posted 29th December 2017 at 8:30 am

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