Discover some of the best new web design resources including tools, libraries, freebies, fonts, UI kits and many other goodies that we curated during August 2018.
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1. Tools

CodeZen
With CodeZen you can generate beautiful and customizable previews of your code snippets and share them with your friends or social media.

Moceen
Moceen is an open-source app that allows you to create beautiful screenshots with device mockups.
2. Libraries

Between.js
Between.js is a lightweight and highly performant ES6 tweening engine.

Mauerwerk
A masonry grid with enter and exit transitions for React.

Apex Charts
A free and beautiful JavaScript charting library.

Undux
A dead-simple state management library for React that is meant to be an alternative to Flux or Redux.

Nano ID
A library for generating random IDs with a very small probability of an ID being duplicated.

Tiptap
A renderless rich-text editor for Vue.js based on Prosemirror that is highly extendable.

Lazyestload
A lightweight (400 bytes) library that loads images only when they are in viewport.

Vue Storefront
Vue Storefront is a PWA storefront powered by Vue that is ultra-fast, offline ready web app that is licensed under the MIT license.

Razzle
Razzle is a tool that abstracts all the complex configuration needed for server-side rendering into a single dependency.
3. UI Kits & Templates

Libre
A free responsive single-page template created using Tailwind perfect for any management-like projects.

Creation Shop
A free and beautiful UI kit designed for online stores.
4. Icons

Gradient Icons
A free collection of 100 beautiful, gradient icons.

Capitalist Icons
A free collection of 60 food & drink icons.
5. Tutorials

Diagonal Slideshow
A beautiful slideshow with a “diagonal” look and three visible slides.

Sticky, Smooth, Active Nav
A short tutorial from Chris Coyier detailing how to create a sidebar nav that scrolls smoothly to the sections you link to, stays on the screen but doesn’t overlap the header/footer or make the links in-accessible

Slide Out Box Menu
A really great tutorial detailing how you can create a details menu with boxes that slide in an irregular grid with delays and beautiful transitions

Animated SVG Neon Effect
A full-tutorial from Illustrator, to Sketch to SVG in which you learn how to create an animated, flashy SVG neon-light effect.
6. Fonts

Space Grotesk
A free and beautiful typeface that supports the Latin Extended-A character set and several OpenType features.

Ustroke
A free, scribble-style font designed by Tikhon Reztcov.

Sanos
A free brush font designed by Krišjānis Mežulis.

Travelers
A free grid-based, mono-width font designed by Arek Zajac.
7. Great Reads
- 📄[CSS Tricks] VS Code extensions for the discerning developer palate
- 📄[Signal vs. Noise] Real Work vs. Imaginary Work
- 📄[Smashing Magazine] What Happens When You Create A Flexbox Flex Container?
- 📄[Meg Robichaud – Medium] Designing Illustrations for Small Screens
- 📄[Silo Creativo] Progressive Disclosure with CSS
What are your favorite tools or resources? Did we miss anything? If you liked this roundup make sure you share it! 😁
🔥 Check out the best resources for web developers from August 2018 #web #resources Click To Tweet
Check out the other monthly roundups for 2018:
- Resources for web designers and developers – January 2018
- Resources for web designers and developers – February 2018
- Resources for web designers and developers – March 2018
- Resources for web designers and developers – April 2018
- 30+ New resources for web developers and designers – May 2018
- 43+ Best new web design resources – June 2018
- 23+ Best new resources for web developers – July 2018
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