Overview & Libraries

Overview

Not being a designer, I am no expert in interface design, but I do know the basics (and thankfully, there are helpful tools and libraries out there these days to help make these tasks easier than they used to be).

The aim of this chapter is to explain some of the most important concepts, and illustrate how to make use of them.

Libraries

While there are a ton of libraries out there for making frontend development easier, here are some very popular ones that are commonly in use:

Font Awesome

faAn essential tool for adding icons to a website, to improve readability. Specifically because Font Awesome is designed to work at any size, as opposed to e.g. picture icons like JPGs that don't scale well a lot of the time.