✅ 7.css

A CSS framework for building interface components that look like Windows 7. It is built on top of the GUI backbone of XP.css, which is an extension of 98.css.

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#css #fun #lib

✅ Vue Tips

A collection of Vue, Nuxt and Vite tips, tricks and good practices

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#tips #vue #nuxt #vite

✅ Say Hello to the React Compiler

Last week’s React Conf was quite the banger, as the kids say nowadays. The biggest reveal was the open sourcing of React’s experimental compiler, a tool designed to optimize React code at build time.

Want to play without breaking everything? They created an React Compiler Playground so you can experiment.

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#react #js

✅ React 19 Lets You Write Impossible Components

React 19 (still in beta) brings all sorts of new ideas to the table, but is the complexity worth it?

The folks at Mux have been leaning on many of React 19’s features for a while (thanks to React Canary) and are very excited about their potential.

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#react #js

✅ Astro 4.9

Astro 4.9 is out! This release includes the long-awaited Container API, stabilized experimental features, and more. A small but mighty release!

Full release highlights include:

- Experimental: Container API
- React 19 support for Astro Actions
- Stabilized experimental features

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#astro #release

✅ SolidStart 1.0: The Shape of Frameworks to Come?

SolidJS is a React-inspired declarative UI library but with a performance focus and templates compiled to real DOM nodes receiving direct DOM updates – no VDOM. SolidStart is a framework for building and deploying SolidJS apps with many compelling features right out of the box.

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#js #solidjs

✅ Angular v18 Released

The large-scale framework got a big public revival last year with Angular 17 and its new homepage. Things continue to progress with experimental support for zoneless change detection and the new built-in control flow approach becoming stable.

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#js #angular #release

✅ Creating Realistic Handwriting with p5.js

Amy wanted to programatically bring her (cursive) handwriting into some diagrams she was making and figured out how to make it happen with p5.js

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#js #lib

✅ Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue

A deep dive into the useDeferredValue hook using this respected educator’s own Shadow Palette Generator tool as a case study. Not just the edification is valuable — the tool itself is useful, too.

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#react #js

✅ What UI Density Means and How to Design for It

A thoughtful look at how user interface density has changed over the past twenty or so years, defining what such a term means today, along with some thoughts on which approach we should be taking.

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#design

✅ Vue Fluid DnD: An Animated Drag-and-Drop Library for Vue

Designed for lists of items and you can view a variety of examples here, including one where the items are draggable using handles.

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#vue #lib

✅We’ve Got Container Queries Now, But Are We Actually Using Them?

Posits that container query adoption isn’t particularly high, and then shares some reasons as to why that may be the case (beyond it just being new, and any potential browser support concerns).

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#css #html

✅ contrast-color() is a Good Thing
But Also Solving the Problem at the Wrong Layer

On the other hand.. some considered thoughts on the new CSS contrast-color() function and how it may placing the effort in the ‘wrong’ place.

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#css

✅ CSS Pattern: Fancy Backgrounds with CSS Gradients

A collection of nice background patterns, now 144 strong, made with just CSS.

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#css #tool

✅ On Compliance vs Readability: Generating Text Colors with CSS

Can we emulate the upcoming CSS contrast-color() function with features that have already widely shipped?

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#css

✅ SSL for localhost takes 5 seconds now

Setting up SSL for localhost traditionally requires tedious manual configurations and repetitive steps. However, Ophiuchi simplifies the process by automatically generating certificates, updating the hosts file, providing an integrated web server, and ensuring instant trust. It saves time and allows developers to focus on building software.

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#nginx #localhost #server #dev #ssl #domain

✅ Unit Testing in Nuxt

Unit tests are important to building robust applications. In this article explore test utils in Nuxt, what they do, different ways to opt in to a Nuxt testing environment in your unit tests and their accompanying helper functions.

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#vue #nuxt #test

✅ Automatic File-Based Routing in Vue.js with TypeScript Support

Tired of manually configuring routes in your Vue.js application? As your project scales, managing routes in a separate JavaScript file can quickly become cumbersome and error-prone as your application grows.

This article introduces you to the exciting world of Automatic File-Based Routing in Vue.js using unplugin-vue-router.

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#vue #typescript #router

✅ Next.js 15 Release Candidate

The popular React meta framework gets ready for a major new release with a RC giving you an opportunity to experiment with React 19 (and React Compiler) support, executing code after a response with next/after, and a few potentially breaking changes.

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#next #react