✅ 🖥 Regexes Got Good: The History (and Future) of Regular Expressions in JavaScript

Regular expression support was always a little underwhelming in JS, but things have improved. Steven takes us on a tour to refresh our knowledge, as well as show off his ‘regex’ library that boosts JS regexes to a true A++ rating. Steven was co-author of O’Reilly’s Regular Expressions Cookbook and High Performance JavaScript so knows his stuff.

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✅ 🖼️ Introducing hubAI()

This new method allows you to run machine learning models, such as LLMs, directly within your Nuxt application with minimal setup.

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✅ 👩‍💻 The State of CSS 2024 Survey

The increased pace of evolution in the CSS space seems to show no signs of slowing, as such we can now do so much more than we could just a few short years ago (be that advanced math, scroll-triggered animations, etc). As such, this recently launched survey — which covers things like layout, color, typography, accessibility, and more — plays an important role in letting browser vendors know what we all think about the path CSS is taking.

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✅ 🖥 How to Make Your Web Page Faster Before It Even Loads

Can we measure the events that happen before the first byte of a web page is received by the browser, and in turn optimize them to make our web pages and apps load even faster?

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✅ 👩‍💻 👩‍💻 Custom Range Slider Using Anchor Positioning & Scroll-Driven Animations

It’s still a touch early to truly adopt these two features (only Chrome and Edge have full support today), but it can’t hurt to explore both Anchor positioning and scroll-driven animations to get an overview of just what could be done in the near future – it's a nifty effect!

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✅ 👩‍💻 Material UI v6: The Popular React UI Design/Component System

At almost exactly ten years old, the MUI design system has its latest major release. The enhancements are more evolutionary than revolutionary though, with a focus on improved theming, color scheme management, container query support, and React 19 support. There are also some revamped templates to help you get started.

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✅ 🖥 Rspack 1.0: The Rust-Powered JavaScript Bundler

Far from being ‘yet another bundler’ with its own approach and terminology to learn, Rspack prides itself on being webpack API and ecosystem compatible, while offering many times the performance. The team now considers it production ready and encourages you to try your webpack-based projects on it.

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✅ 👩‍💻 React Cosmos v6.2: A Sandbox for Developing and Testing UI Components

Built upon a project first showcased at ReactEurope 2015, Cosmos is a long standing and ‘slowly matured’ tool for prototyping React components in an isolated manner.

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#frontend #lib #testing #ui #react #cosmos
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✅ 👩‍💻 Implementing a React-a-Like from Scratch

While it's unlikely you'll actually want to do this, at least thinking about it can prove instructive as to what’s going on in React’s engine room.

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✅ 👩‍💻 Announcing Vue 3.5

While v3.5 is a minor release, it’s one Vue users will love, with big performance and memory usage improvements in its reactivity system. With no breaking changes, upgrade and watch memory consumption drop.

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