Getting back into web development and Kirby after a 4-year hiatus

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Hi there,

it has been a while since I have coded my last Kirby website (I made https://gipfelkurs.de/ in 2017 with Kirby V2) but I am looking for good ressources to get “back into the business” of Kirby and more generally, web development and design.

I always found this community very helpful and Kirby 3 is my next obvious choice for my preferred technology. Which is why I would like to ask

  • are there any massive roadblocks in transitioning from V2 to V3 of Kirby that is maybe not mentioned in the docs (something that becomes very obvious only later?)
  • what are current “must haves” as a frontend developer in terms of JavaScript (I know, loaded questions). I was getting into Angular and react when my career took a different path and now Vue.js seems to be “that big frontend framework”
  • what are the ones with CSS and preprocessor stuff? I have looked around a little and it looks like we finally have some native CSS Grid layout (omg wow). I was writing SCSS before with some BEM flavour, so I have some knowledge there
  • what to look for in particular with responsive design? viewports still a thing? :wink:

I am also looking for good general ressource websites. https://css-tricks.com/ seems to be doing great still. That would be my first stop for best-practice CSS-stuff. Anything on that level for Javascript? There are so many :innocent:

Thank you very much, every answer is much appreciated.

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if you haven’t built a website in 4 years, you should definitely check out tailwindcss and alpinejs. There has been a lot going on in the last few years. You don’t have to like it, but you should have seen it once.

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Thank you Christian I will definitely check these out. At least the controversies are still alive :wink: