President of WebFX. Bill has over 25 years of experience in the Internet marketing industry specializing in SEO, UX, information architecture, marketing automation and more. William’s background in scientific computing and education from Shippensburg and MIT provided the foundation for MarketingCloudFX and other key research and development projects at WebFX.
This is a roundup of free email newsletters you should subscribe to if you’re interested in staying up-to-date with the most important news, articles, and resources related to these topics: general web development, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Once you’re done checking out the newsletters in this post, check out my other list: The 30 Best Web Design Newsletters To Subscribe To, which also shares a technique for managing your newsletter subscriptions.
Level Up! — Receive news on web development, web design, and other related topics every two to three weeks.
Scotch Newsletter — Get web design/development tutorials and news sent to your email by this awesome tutorial site. Email sign-up is at the footer.
Dev Tips — Get a Google Chrome DevTools tip, in the form of an animated GIF, once a week. DevTools is an essential front-end development tool, and this newsletter will help you learn some really cool tricks and techniques.
SitePoint Newsletter — This customizable email newsletter allows you to subscribe only to the topics you’re interested in. Front-end developers may want to subscribe to the “Front-end” and “Javascript” topics.
Status Code — A weekly newsletter containing links that are interesting to coders.
Hacker Newsletter — Receive a recap of the best articles on startups, technology, programming, etc. posted on Hacker News.
Gamedev.js Weekly — A weekly newsletter for the HTML5 game development community. HTML5 game development involves HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (not just HTML).
The Web Developer Newsletter — A weekly digest of web development articles, news, and discussions. You’re required to sign-up for a CodeProject account in order to get this email newsletter.
Fullweb — This newsletter is for full stack developers and it covers news and articles on these topics: web development, backend development (in other words, server-side development), development operations (DevOps), build automation, and UX.
HTML / CSS
HTML5 Weekly — Get notified of news and articles about HTML5/CSS3, and other relatively new web technologies.
CSS Weekly — Front-end developer Zoran Jambor puts together a weekly roundup of CSS news, tutorials, demos and tools.
Sass News — Front-end developer Stu Robson shares a hand-picked list of Sass resources once a week.
JavaScript
JavaScript Weekly — Get a digest of noteworthy JavaScript articles and news every Friday.
A Drip of JavaScript — Receive one JavaScript tip every two weeks in your inbox.
Node Weekly — Get a set of hand-picked news, articles, and links on Node.js every Friday.
5 Minutes of Javascript — A weekly podcast by Code School that discusses the latest news in the JavaScript community sent to your email inbox.
Javascript Jabber — Get this weekly podcast about JavaScript (the podcast also includes topics in Node, front-end technologies, and more) automatically via email.
Superhero.js — A curated roundup of excellent JavaScript development articles, videos, and presentations.
Additional Updates
Here are additional email newsletters that our readers have suggested:
DevList — Covers everything about software development, including front-end web development. The newsletter sign-up form is at the footer of the website. This site was suggested by Attila, via the comments, on September 3, 2015.