Friday Issue Nr. 87 | 10/11/2023.

This week brings the Latest Angular, amazing animations with WebGL, ECMAScript Decorators, DFlex and more.

JavaScript News

Analog

Vite + Angular ⇒ AnalogJS

it is like a NextJS or SvelteKit but built on Angular.

https://analogjs.org/

Angular 17

Last month, Angular celebrated its 13th anniversary, and now the Angular team has pushed v17.

https://blog.angular.io/introducing-angular-v17-4d7033312e4b

Mastering DOM manipulation with vanilla JS

https://phuoc.ng/collection/html-dom/

ECMAScript Decorators

Fantastic Fridays long-read, much more than about decorators.

https://dev.to/what1s1ove/ecmascript-decorators-the-ones-that-are-real-g96

How to do a TS conversion

https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/how-to-do-a-typescript-conversion/

WebGL Fluid Simulation

This. Is. Fantastic.

https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/

DFlex: A Drag-and-drop library

A vanilla JS library for use with any Framework

https://www.dflex.dev/

or movable https://github.com/daybrush/moveable

Speedscope

An interactive visualiser to help you make your software faster. Drag and drop the profile file onto the window and get started.

https://www.speedscope.app/

Docusaurus 3.0

https://docusaurus.io/blog/releases/3.0

How about creating your own Space?

Demo: https://www.meteorshowers.org/

https://typpo.github.io/spacekit/

CSS News

CSS selectors

It's probably one of the most comprehensive lists. Nicely done

https://fffuel.co/css-selectors/

How to Animate along a path in CSS

I like this kind of new approach for the perfect squares with aspect-ration:

width: 200px; 
aspect-ratio: 1;

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/10/animate-along-path-css/

Interesting to learn about custom CSS Property.

CSS is fun again

Do you agree?

https://pdx.su/blog/2023-10-25-css-is-fun-again

Mixed News

How Core Web Vitals saved users 10,000 years of waiting for web pages to load

https://blog.chromium.org/2023/11/how-core-web-vitals-saved-users-10000.html

AI as UX Assistant

“92% of the respondents claimed they had used at least one generative AI tool; among those who used these bots for work, 63% used them at least several times per week (if not daily).”

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-roles-ux/