Friday Issue Nr.88

2023-11-17

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Last week, an Angular update came out. I’m still looking for some good overview articles. This week, Vite 5.0 is out. But do our users always have JavaScript? That question is answered below.

JavaScript News

Vite 5.0 is out

Seems like Vite is becoming the default choice for most modern JS frameworks.

https://vitejs.dev/blog/announcing-vite5

Prettier 3.1 Released

Add indentation back to nested ternaries.

https://prettier.io/blog/2023/11/13/3.1.0

Everyone has JavaScript, right?

It's a pretty long list of possibilities when your user doesn’t have JS. Is your app ready for that?

https://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/everyonehasjs.html

Excel-like React Datasheet Grid

Another library to keep in bookmarks.

https://react-datasheet-grid.netlify.app/

Can Bun eat NodeJS’s lunch?

In short, nope. Not yet.

https://labzero.com/blog/can-bun-eat-node-js-s-lunch-testing-the-trendy-toolkit

67 Browser-based debugging tricks

Loads of ways to debug your JS app in Browser. For some reason, I remember those advanced techniques only after I needed them.

https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/browser-debugging-tricks

CSS News

Messing about with CSS gradients

That did hurt my eyes, but it is an interesting experiment.

https://css-irl.info/messing-about-with-css-gradients/

Mixed News

Very nicely done web

Also, click the search (top, right corner) and enjoy the colour schemas directly from the images. https://pigment.shapefactory.co/

The waning days of the craft

This is quite a long read about coding, ChatGPT, craft and what is waiting for us (coders). It's a philosophical post but probably a good one for a Friday coffee break.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft

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.

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

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