✅ 👩‍💻 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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✅ 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

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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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✅ 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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✅ What’s New for JavaScript Developers in ECMAScript 2024

High level analysis of developments in the ECMAScript spec, with insights from Ecma vice president Daniel Ehrenberg, TC39 co-chair Rob Palmer, and developer Ashley Claymore. A good, thorough roundup of the state of play.

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#ecmascript #frontend #js
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✅ 👩‍💻 So You Think You Know Box Shadows?

Or, perhaps, “How not to use box shadows.” David sets out to share “some of the worst possible things” you can do with box shadows on DIV elements, but in reality they’re also quite impressive and striking.

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#frontend #css #shadow
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✅ 👩‍💻 Use useId() Instead of Hand-Making IDs

Why to use useId instead of hand-made IDs to link two DOM nodes for accessibility.

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#frontend #js #react #userid #hooks
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✅ 👩‍💻 React Native Filament: A 3D Rendering Engine for React Native

It’s fast, native 3D rendering with a React touch. Rendering takes place on a separate thread for efficiency, and on iOS, Filament uses the efficient native Metal API.

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#frontend #react #js #reactnative
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✅ 🖥 Announcing TypeScript 5.6 Beta

The first beta of the next major version of TypeScript is out. Region-prioritized diagnostics (VS Code only, for now) is a particularly interesting addition.

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#js #frontend #ts #backend
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✅ Releases

- React Virtuoso 4.8 – Complete React virtualized rendering list/table/grid family of components. Now with horizontal list support.
- 🎨 Chroma.js 2.6 – Simple color manpiulation library, now with tint and shade functions.
- Ky 1.5 – Simple HTTP client based upon Fetch for browsers, Node & Deno.
- YouTube.js 10.2 – Unofficial client for YouTube's internal API.
- tween.js 25.0 – JavaScript/TypeScript animation engine.
- ArangoJS 9.0 – Driver for the ArangoDB graph database.
- is-online 11.0 – Check if the Internet is reachable.
- sql.js 1.11 – SQLite compiled to JavaScript.
- Nuxt Auth Utils v0.3 is out - Add Authentication to Nuxt applications with secured & sealed cookies sessions.

#releases #react #youtube #tween #nuxt #sql

✅ 👩‍💻 What’s Coming in Vue 3.5

Vue.js, is gearing up for a new minor release with Vue 3.5. This version (currently in Alpha) brings a range of enhancements, new features, and important changes to improve the development and user experience. Here's a look at what's coming in Vue 3.5 based on the official changelog and an interview our friends Michael and Alex had with Evan over at the DejaVue podcast.

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#js #frontend #vue #EvanYou
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