--- title: Best CSS-Tricks posts — January 2022 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted CSS-Tricks posts from January 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks/best-of/2022/01 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks/best-of/2022/01 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best CSS-Tricks posts — January 2022 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted CSS-Tricks posts from January 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of CSS-Tricks — January 2022 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-60-hottest-front-end-tools-of-2021-css-tricks-he-fmztrl "The 60 Hottest Front-end Tools of 2021 | CSS-Tricks") Article CSS-Tricks · 5y The 60 Hottest Front-end Tools of 2021 | CSS-Tricks The Web Tools Weekly newsletter archives have been compiled into a list of the 60 most popular front-end tools of the past year. I’m sure there are at least one or two listed here that you can start using in your projects today. Some of these tools are super-practical, while others probably only made this list due to curiosity. 548 36 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/css-based-fingerprinting-css-tricks-apw5knbt5 "CSS-Based Fingerprinting | CSS-Tricks") Article CSS-Tricks · 5y CSS-Based Fingerprinting | CSS-Tricks Fingerprinting is a term that refers to building up enough metadata about a user that you can essentially figure out who they are. Oliver Brotchie has documented an idea that allows for some degree of fingerprinting with CSS alone. The generated CSS to do it is massive (here's the Sass to generate it), but apparently it’s heavily reduced once we can use custom properties in URLs. 24 1 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/thank-you-2021-edition-css-tricks-e8r4uk2te "Thank You (2021 Edition) | CSS-Tricks") Article CSS-Tricks · 5y Thank You (2021 Edition) | CSS-Tricks The site saw 88m pageviews this year down 6% from the 93m last year. A \~3% drop in organic search traffic was largely responsible for the dip. Unique Visitors are up year over year to 26.3m from 25.8m, suggesting more different people came to the site this year. 17 [See all CSS-Tricks archives](/sources/css%5Ftricks/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks/best-of/2022/01#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks/best-of/2022/01","name":"Best CSS-Tricks Posts — January 2022","description":"The most upvoted CSS-Tricks posts from January 2022, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks/best-of/2022/01#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-60-hottest-front-end-tools-of-2021-css-tricks-he-fmztrl","name":"The 60 Hottest Front-end Tools of 2021 | CSS-Tricks"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/css-based-fingerprinting-css-tricks-apw5knbt5","name":"CSS-Based Fingerprinting | CSS-Tricks"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/thank-you-2021-edition-css-tricks-e8r4uk2te","name":"Thank You (2021 Edition) | CSS-Tricks"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"CSS-Tricks","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"January 2022"}]}]} ```