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TLDR

A hand-curated reading list of front-end development newsletters and blogs, both English and Chinese, filtered for original content and rated by how often each one updates.

Mindmap

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  root((front-end-collect))
    English newsletters
      HTML and CSS
      JavaScript
      Responsive design
      UX focused
    Chinese resources
      Mainland China blogs
      Taiwan developer blogs
      Chinese aggregators
    Notable authors
      Alibaba engineers
      Tencent engineers
      CSS-Tricks authors
    Quality filters
      Update frequency rating
      Original vs republished
      No aggregator copies
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Find quality English newsletters covering HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and UX to follow the latest front-end trends.

USE CASE 2

Discover blogs from respected Chinese front-end engineers at companies like Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu.

USE CASE 3

Quickly judge how often a blog publishes and whether it writes original content before deciding to follow it.

Tech stack

JavaScript

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In plain English

This repository is a curated list of front-end development resources maintained by a Chinese developer. The author compiled it as a personal reference of websites, blogs, newsletters, and active developers they follow over time, and shared it publicly so others can benefit from the same collection. The content is organized into several sections. There are English-language newsletters covering HTML, CSS, JavaScript, responsive design, and UX. There are also Chinese-language newsletters and aggregators for developers in mainland China and Taiwan. A large portion of the README lists individual developer blogs, both from well-known Chinese engineers at companies like Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu, and from internationally recognized front-end authors like those behind CSS-Tricks and Smashing Magazine. Each blog entry in the tables includes a rating for how frequently it updates and how much of the content is original versus republished from other sources. The author explicitly notes they avoid recommending aggregator sites that mostly copy content from elsewhere, preferring sources with original writing. The repository also includes a visual mind-map version of the collection, accessible through a web interface. The README is written almost entirely in Chinese, so readers who do not read Chinese will find the tables of English-language blogs and newsletters the most accessible parts. There is no software to install or run: the repository is a document, not a code project.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
List the English-language JavaScript newsletters in this front-end resource collection that publish original content frequently.
Prompt 2
Which developer blogs in this collection are written by engineers at Chinese tech companies like Alibaba or Tencent?
Prompt 3
Based on this resource list, give me a starter reading plan of 5 blogs and 3 newsletters for learning modern CSS.
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