✅ 👩‍💻 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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✅ 👩‍💻 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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✅ 👩‍💻 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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✅ 🖥 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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✅ 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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✅ 🖥 How Google Handles JavaScript In Its Indexing Process

Once, if you wanted Google to index your content, it needed to be right in the HTML and not dynamically rendered with JavaScript. Things have changed, but how much? MERJ and Vercel analyzed over 100,000 Googlebot fetches in an attempt to empirically demystify Google’s approach.

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✅ 🖥 Garbage Collection and Closures

When three JavaScript experts get together and all learn something new about how JavaScript works when they encounter a memory leak, it pays to listen. An interesting quirk to be aware of.

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✅ How to Use Environment Variables in Vite.js

In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore the benefits and mechanics of using environment variables in Vite.js. We’ll also provide valuable insights and practical examples to help you get the most out of this powerful feature.

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✅ 👩‍💻 The React Conf 2024 Talks

It was possible to catch up with the talks from May’s React Conf via the livestream recordings, but now the talks have been split up and shared in an easier to digest form. Well worth a look if you haven’t looked through the event till now.

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✅ 👩‍💻 What If You Used Container Units For… Everything?

An interesting experiment, but Chris notes “that it’s not that easy. There are plenty of things that container queries are awkward at or just not the right unit for”.

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✅ 🖥 Patterns for Memory Efficient DOM Manipulation

Marc shares a solid look at the best practices to employ in order to avoid excess memory usage when managing/updating the DOM, all with a hope to make your apps faster. A good overview of the core principles behind DOM manipulation and optimization.

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