Friday Issue Nr. 128 | 24/01/2024

Hello

Intro

JavaScript News

Interactive tutorial on building realtime collaborative applications

https://learn.yjs.dev/

Angular strategy for 2025

https://blog.angular.dev/angular-2025-strategy-9ca333dfc334

A checklist for your tsconfig.json

Not many go into such details as Dr. Axel Rashmayer, but when he explores something, then it is till every line and letter.

https://2ality.com/2025/01/tsconfig-json.html

Beautiful svelte project

https://gii.cesionline.org/

2024 Rising Stars

I didn’t expect that, but HTMX is upfront, followed by React, Svelte, Vue and Angular. That’s something! From most popular frameworks, Excalidraw is helpful for quick sketching. Shadcn/ui is very loved, and so is Magic UI. In state management, everything looks very similar to other years’ Zustand, Jotai, and XState. Interesting, but Bootstrap is back in 2024, sitting proudly between TailwindCSS, DaisyUI, and Pico.css.

https://risingstars.js.org/2024/en

Threlte 8

Interactive 3D apps

“Six months in the making, Threlte 8 redefines performance, flexibility, and developer experience for 3D web graphics using Svelte. It’s our biggest leap yet, powered by Svelte 5, exciting updates from Three.js, and tons of community input.”

https://threlte.xyz/

Quite impressive scenes you can create in a browser, for example, a spaceship:

https://threlte.xyz/docs/examples/tutorials/animating-a-spaceship#part-i

https://bsky.app/profile/threlte.xyz/post/3lgbgw6pask2l

Tired of ‘this’ keyword?

Not sure how useful for any, but I know how easy it is to slip into those side projects 🙂

https://daverupert.com/2025/01/like-this-and-like-that-and-like-this-and-uh/

HTML & CSS News

Accessibility essentials

The post discusses essentials for the accessible web with interesting cases for Modals and focus management.

https://martijnhols.nl/blog/accessibility-essentials-every-front-end-developer-should-know

Happy Hues

It is a fantastic project to play with colours and immediately see changes in a browser.

https://www.happyhues.co/

Easing Wizard

The tool to make CSS easing functions simple

https://easingwizard.com/

Another article on text box trimming

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-text-box-trim

CSS Whishlist for 2025

Some of my favourites. extend() , regions and reading flow (this is solid accessibility issue), Mixins , trim text from the middle (yes, please!), random() , stateQueries

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/css-wishlist-for-2025/

Don’t wrap figure in a link

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/dont-wrap-figure-in-a-link.html

ARIA Dev Tool

Looks pretty good tool to quickly see all alt tags, titles and links are correctly marked.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aria-devtools/dneemiigcbbgbdjlcdjjnianlikimpck

Mixed News

Stack Overflow decline

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-making-stackoverflow-irrelevant/

Will AI Eat The Browser?

Thought-provoking post. I disagree about the browser death, though. Yes, AI gives focused answers to questions, but I like to go to sources as it lets me “connect” to the author on the subject. That means, there must be a way to browse, there will be web.

https://crazystupidtech.com/archive/will-ai-eat-the-browser/

Latest on WP saga

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/11/matt-mullenweg-deactivates-wordpress-accounts-of-contributors-planning-a-fork/

Also, handy timeline of the events: https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7fc225d

The End

Thanks for reading. Have a great weekend, and see you in the comments!