Introduction
Welcome to the XIP front-end developers documentation.
Coding standards
Beside the common coding standards, we have some additional standards for front-end development. These are an extension to the common standards.
These are not rules, but general best practices to follow when writing your code. You can defer from these practices, but we strongly advise you to follow these also.
Read the frontend coding standards
Best practices
These are not rules, but general best practices to follow when writing your code. You can defer from these practices, but we strongly advise you to follow these also.
Guides
The guides are mostly there to help you get started with things. They help you setting up repositories, creating projects, implementing standards or setting up tests.
European Accessibility Act
On the 28th of June 2025, the European Union passed the European Accessibility Act. This act means that all digital products must conform to the WCAG 2.1 standards. Accessibility should be an aspect in all steps of the development process from the design stage to development, and existing applications need to be adjusted. Companies that don't comply will be fined.
To adjust existing applications, a transition period is applied. Services/contracts that are older than the 28th of June 2025 have a 5-year period to apply their online services to the WCAG 2.1 standards. This transition period does not apply to existing applications when large changes are made that could impact accessibility. Those changes should be compliant to the WCAG standards.
These new accessibility laws do not apply to companies with less than 10 employees and a revenue of less than 2 million euros.