impressivewebs/frontend-feeds

An up to date list of RSS feeds for front-end developers.

Summary

Frontend Feeds is a curated list of RSS feeds for front-end developers, last overhauled in March 2020 and updated since to fix broken entries. The project organizes feeds into 11 sections, covering large publications, multi-author blogs, individual practitioners, and topical tags, and ships them as both an OPML file and a formatted list in the README. It is useful for engineers who want a single, vetted starting point for following front-end writing in an RSS reader instead of relying on social feeds or newsletters.

What it is useful for

The repository is useful when you want to populate a feed reader with front-end writing without hunting for sources one site at a time. Categories in the README mix high-traffic sites such as CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine, web.dev, and DEV Community; multi-author outlets like A List Apart, Frontend Masters, InfoQ's JavaScript section, and the Web Performance Calendar; and individual bloggers including Jake Archibald, Lea Verou, Rachel Andrew, Andy Bell, Una Kravets, and Sarah L. Fossheim. There are also specialized buckets: Hackernoon tag feeds, browser and engine blogs, library and framework blogs, company and startup blogs, developer and designer news, Q&A sites and forums, and YouTube channels. If you only want a slice, the README layout lets you pick entries directly, for example the accessibility-leaning sources like 24 Accessibility, TPG Blog, Scott O'Hara, and Hidde de Vries.

How engineers can use it

The README states that the feeds are provided in an OPML file you can import into your feed reader of choice. Specific import steps or commands are not documented in the README, so refer to your reader's documentation for the exact import flow, then trim the categories that do not match your interests. Before subscribing at scale, note the documented exclusions: feeds were left out when a blog had not been updated in a long time, posted very infrequently, mixed in too much off-topic personal content, leaned heavily on list posts or sponsored content, or sat behind a paywall, with most Medium feeds excluded for that last reason. Because RSS endpoints break over time, the maintainer has historically corrected broken feeds and accepts suggestions through the repository's issue tracker, so check the README for the current state of any individual entry before depending on it.