Friday Issue Nr.73

2023-07-28

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Happy Friday! Since this is summertime, let's keep it short. 🙂 Definitely check View Transitions and Scroll-driven animations; both look awesome! Also, Astro View Transitions Shrinking VS Code by 20% is worth your time.

JavaScript News

Astro 2.9: View Transitions

Ok, this is still experimental, but it looks awesome. You can create an App style transition from one element to another without JavaScript. This is still experimental and quirky, but probably not for long.

https://astro.build/blog/astro-290/

demo: https://live-transitions.pages.dev/

Magic in detail: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transitions_API

Remix for Shopify Apps

https://shopify.engineering/shopifys-platform-is-the-web-platform

“Remix is now the recommended way to build Admin apps on Shopify. With Remix, you get a best-in-class developer experience while ensuring exceptional out-of-the-box performance for your app.”

Shrinking VS Code with name mangling

Truly Friday’s article! Excellent long read about the VS Code team and how they came up with a solution to reduce their code by 20%.

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2023/07/20/mangling-vscode

JavaScript Playground

An elegant and clean playground.

https://www.jsplayground.dev/

Good code is like a love letter…

Excellent article from Addy Osmani

https://addyosmani.com/blog/good-code/

CSS News

TAC: A new CSS methodology

Very interesting approach. I'm a big fun on different CSS approaches and this one seems very clean.

https://jordanbrennan.hashnode.dev/tac-a-new-css-methodology

Scroll-driven animations in CSS

https://utilitybend.com/blog/scroll-driven-animations-in-css-are-a-joy-to-play-around-with

Mixed News

Kuma UI

Another UI library.

https://www.kuma-ui.com/

“With Kuma UI's headless, zero-runtime UI components, build top-performing websites effortlessly, while enjoying the best developer experience. Say hello to the future of CSS-in-JS”

The Arc Browser Reaches v1.0

I never tried it, but it came into my news, so I am posting here, too

https://arc.net/

Andris Ĺ varcs

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.

Copyright © since 2021, Andris Švarcs. All rights reserved.

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