Friday Issue Nr.62

2023-05-12

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Astro is going strong and reached 2.4, a controversial article about Remix, CSS Zen Garden celebrates 20(!) years. This week brings loads of interesting CSS articles, including about Scrollbar, Anchor position and Zen Garden.

JavaScript News

Free TypeScript Tutorials

I haven’t checked them, but they claim they are free. Let us know if you tried and find them useful

https://www.totaltypescript.com/tutorials

Astro 2.4

https://astro.build/blog/astro-240/

Why you don’t need Signals in React

Actually, that turned out to be a clickbait article 🙂

https://blog.axlight.com/posts/why-you-dont-need-signals-in-react/

Apparently, the suggested solution is to use Jotai https://jotai.org/

Which looks similar to Zustand: https://www.npmjs.com/package/zustand

Remix - the bad parts

If you are into Remix or thinking about it, you might like this article a lot. A bit of a cold shower is always good to have!

https://redd.one/blog/my-struggle-with-remix

CSS News

CSS Zen Garden

I'm not sure how many of you remember this website.

https://www.csszengarden.com/

Many years ago, it was quite an inspirational place to see the possibilities you can achieve with simple CSS. I mean, the time when IE6 (Internet Explorer, yes, being sarcastic) was the THING.

https://www.csszengarden.com/

Well, the start of that website was some 20 years ago!

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/css-zen-garden-2003

Future CSS: Anchor Positioning

It's a long read, but it's worth skimming and checking short videos with examples of what is already possible (Chrome Canary’s experimental implementation). Pretty wild!

https://kizu.dev/anchor-positioning-experiments/

Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars

I don’t know if styling the scrollbar is a good or bad idea; it's probably annoying for me. Some websites have great examples, but they are mostly annoying. I prefer when I do not see a scrollbar at all. The author goes into depth on the subject.

https://ericwbailey.website/published/dont-use-custom-css-scrollbars

CSS only fire

Quite amazing: https://codepen.io/simeydotme/pen/PoyzbPM

Mixed News

Ongoing defence of Frontend as a full-time job

Fascinating read. Any thoughts on this? I noticed a lack of basic HTML and CSS knowledge in many projects, leading to accessibility issues, broken layouts and hard-to-manage CSS.

https://christianheilmann.com/2023/05/09/the-ongoing-defence-of-frontend-as-a-full-time-job/

Frontend developers are:

Your first unit test

Good one if you never wrote a unit test or set it up from scratch.

https://resources.snyk.io/unit-test-js

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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