manuel biehProduct engineer · Berlin
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Writing

Three books and a handful of magazine articles, written across two decades of the web changing its mind.

01Books

React Deep Dive

Self-published, Berlin · ISBN 978-3982169026 · 321 pages · June 2020

The English edition. React had taken over frontend development faster than any library before it, and the books available were either three versions out of date or too thin to be useful. This one goes from first principles to the patterns you only meet in production.

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React – lernen und verstehen

Self-published, Berlin · ISBN 978-3982169002 · 346 pages · May 2019

The first comprehensive React book written in German, and still the one I get the most email about. Written out of fifteen client projects and the mistakes made in all of them.

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Mobiles Webdesign

Galileo Computing, Bonn · ISBN 978-3836211536 · 302 pages · June 2008

The first German-language book on mobile web design, published the year after the first iPhone and well before anyone said “responsive”. Concept, design and implementation for screens nobody had designed for yet.

02Archive

Magazine articles

From the years when the mobile web was still an argument. Kept for the record rather than as current advice.

  1. Webmaking Magazin, issue 12/2011

    Interview: Webdesign trends 2012

    On responsive design arriving from the US, and why CSS media queries were about to change how one site could serve a phone, a tablet and a desktop from the same markup.

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  2. Internet Intern, issue 02/2011

    Interview: Mobile web design

    Why adapting a desktop site for a small screen is a conceptual problem long before it is a visual one.

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  3. Mobile Developer's Guide To The Galaxy #9

    Creating Mobile Websites

    The case for a mobile website over an application: one codebase, every device, and an update everybody gets at once.

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  4. Webstandards-Magazin, issue 11/2011

    Mobile Möglichkeiten – tools for building mobile sites

    A survey of what it cost, in money and in flexibility, to build a mobile site in 2011: free or paid, code or WYSIWYG, server-side or client-side.

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