✅ How Fast is JavaScript? Simulating 20 Million Particles

“The challenge: simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain JavaScript at 60 FPS on a phone using only the CPU. Let’s go.” The sort of fun, detailed experimentation I’ll always support.

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#js #frontend #performance
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✅ 🖥 🖥 Poku 2.0: A Cross-Platform Test Runner for JS

Poku’s philosophy is to ‘bring the JavaScript essence back to testing.’ It runs the same way across Node, Bun and Deno, and auto-detects ESM, CommonJS and TypeScript.

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#js #lib #tests #frontend
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✅ 👩‍💻 👩‍💻 CSS Selectors

A thorough, complete guide/reference covering all of the various methods we have to select elements in CSS (such as pseudo-selectors, nested selectors, attribute selectors, etc) and how to use them for applying styles.

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✅ 👩‍💻 Seamless SVG Copy-Paste on the Web

Support has been added to Chromium browsers for SVG files in the Async Clipboard API. This means copying and pasting SVG data across any app that wants to use SVG, whether it’s native or web, becomes possible.

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#html #css #svg #frontend #chromium
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✅ 👩‍💻 @property: Next-Gen CSS Variables Now with Universal Browser Support

The @property rule, part of the CSS Houdini umbrella of APIs, is now fully supported across all modern browsers.

Browser Support
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#css #html #frontend
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✅ 👩‍💻 Private Browsing 2.0 in Safari

First included as a feature in Safari almost twenty years ago, ‘Private Browsing’ has been getting a big revamp over the past year. The WebKit team explains what changes and enhancements have occurred and the mitigations to prevent breaking existing sites.

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#js #browser #safari #webkit
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✅ 👩‍💻 An Update on Invokers: Invoker Commands in HTML

An overview of this experimental syntax which will allow devs to assign behavior to elements in a declarative and accessible way.

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#html #frontend
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✅ 👩‍💻 Embracing Functional CSS: Have We Moved On?

A look at the positives of utility-first CSS, and why we’ve become accustomed to introducing it to our workflows.

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#css #frontend
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✅ Astro 4.12: Say Hello to Server Islands

The flexible Astro framework for building modern content-based sites continues to go from strength to strength. v4.12 includes a new concept of server islands, a way to integrate static HTML and server-side generated components together.

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#frontend #astro #react #vue #ssr #static
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✅ Releases

- Mikro ORM 6.3 – Popular ORM for Node.js and TypeScript, now with an optional 'schema-first' approach.
- Uppy 4.0 – Powerful, modular JavaScript file uploader.
- Preact 10.23 – The 3KB React compatible alternative.

Node.js v20.16.0 (LTS), pnpm 9.6, Meteor.js 3

#node #mikroorm #uppy #preact #pnpm #meteor #frontend #backend
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✅ 👩‍💻 Storybook 8.2

Michael Shilman is excited to announce Storybook 8.2, the next stop on our journey to no-compromise component testing:

-🪝 New test hooks for parity with other popular testing tools
- 🧳 Portable stories for reuse in other testing and docs tools
- 📦 Package consolidation to reduce dependency conflicts
- 🛼 Streamlined onboarding to get new users up to speed
- ✨ New and improved website with better framework docs
- 💯 Hundreds more improvements

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#storybook #frontend #ui #react #vue #vitest
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✅ 👩‍💻 The Results of State of React 2023

The State of React 2023 survey ran last December but the results from over 13,000 respondents have finally landed. It’s packed with interesting tidbits, but we learn:

- SPAs still dominate for most developers.
- forwardRef is the React API causing the most pain.
- 🎧 What podcasts React developers are listening to.
- Python and PHP are the most common backend languages (after JS/TS).
- MUI and React Bootstrap lead the way in component libraries.
- React 18 adoption is strong.

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#frontend #stateofreact #react #js
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✅ 👩‍💻 DRY - A Common Source of Bad Abstractions

The pursuit of avoiding repetition at all costs can sometimes result in crude, hard to maintain code. Think about the actual concerns involved and you might find a better way to break things down.

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#frontend #react #js
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✅ Design GUI: Browser Extension for Managing Colors in CSS Variables

Lots of features in this one including AI-generated color palettes, accessibility testing, support for shadcn/ui — overall a nice tool for those working with design systems.

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#lib #frontend #shadcnui
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✅ 👩‍💻 Going Deep into CSS Grid Areas

We’re seven years into widespread support for CSS Grid, but its use still isn’t as widespread as it should be, says Ahmad. He digs into the power of CSS Grid’s ability to define and name specific grid areas here, complete with diagrams and code.

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#frontend #css #grid
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