Friday Issue Nr.65

2023-06-02

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Node.js's 14th birthday and ten years since Reactjs. Drawing shapes with one function, Inkline, Aimless - randomness library, Svelvet, how to create a dark mode

JavaScript News

300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time

https://www.nray.dev/blog/300ms-faster-reducing-wikipedias-total-blocking-time/

The evolution of React patterns

Quite a long but nice article. If you are into React, you will enjoy this one

https://frontendmastery.com/posts/the-evolution-of-react-patterns/

Drawing shapes with one function

This is a fun article. After 2 min reading, you will learn to draw any (nearly) shape.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/javascript-shape-drawing-function/

14 years of Node.js

Yep, apparently, this is the age of the Node.js

https://twitter.com/nodejs/status/1662130000987062274

Ten years of React

If that doesn’t make you feel old, I don’t know what will. There is an exciting interview to listen to as well.

https://vercel.com/blog/10-years-of-react

Inkline 4.0 - UI component library for Vue.js

Looks nice, and the code is very readable.

https://www.inkline.io/

Aimless.js

The missing JS randomness library. If nothing more, I would say the name is great. Also, the size is pretty tiny - 6KB.

https://chriscavs.github.io/aimless-demo/

Svelvet

Interactive, node-based UIs and diagrams in Svelte

https://www.svelvet.io/

CSS News

Mastering CSS Blend Modes

Basically, simplified Photoshop in CSS

https://www.kodingkitty.com/blog/blend-modes/

Bootstrap 5.3.0

https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2023/05/30/bootstrap-5-3-0/

How to create Dark Mode

https://dev.to/madsstoumann/dark-mode-in-3-lines-of-css-and-other-adventures-1ljj

Vertical rhythm using CSS lh and rlh units

It's an exciting read, but beware, this uses CSS4, and support is not there yet.

https://pawelgrzybek.com/vertical-rhythm-using-css-lh-and-rlh-units/

Mixed News

JavaScript Macros in Bun

With Bun, you can run macros at the build time, and the result is directly inlined into your code

https://bun.sh/blog/bun-macros

Andris Švarcs

Somehow, I've survived over 15 years as a web developer without losing my interest in the craft. Quite the opposite, with so many great improvements in the Web standards, what was nearly impossible now is easy to make.

My career has been a wild ride through small agencies and big corporations, building everything from finance apps to health dashboards.

I'm that annoying person who needs to understand products beyond just slinging code. I ask questions like 'Why is this feature important?' and 'How will this improve the customer journey?' – you know, the kind of questions that make project managers reach for the pint aspirin. This curiosity has led me down the rabbit holes of design, accessibility, and SEO. Because apparently, making websites pretty, usable, and findable wasn't challenging enough on its own.

P.S. If this bio sounds too polished, blame my evil AI twin. I'm still working on teaching it sarcasm.

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