Frontend Links of the Week 47

47th part of the series - advanced links in the area of web frontend development.

Plain Vanilla by Joeri Sebrechts
A nice collection of starters and ideas for going fully vanilla. Be aware that following this you might end up with your own framework.

A different way to think about typescript by Robby Pruzan
TypeScript is like a strict librarian who insists on organizing infinite sets of values, just so you can avoid typos in your code!

How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process by Ryan Siddle and Malte Ubl
I'm glad this got out. I'm tired of telling everyone that you don't need SSR to be seen by Google.

Patterns for Memory Efficient DOM Manipulation with Modern Vanilla JavaScript by Marc Grabanski
Spot the pattern? All vanilla. Knowing your DOM API is key.

Benchmarking AWS Lambda Cold Starts Across JavaScript Runtimes by Andy Jiang and Igor Zinkovsky
Alright, so Deno is actually quite fast - but what's more important is that Hono is super (even more than Express) lightweight.

Nx 19.5 is here! Stackblitz, Bun, Incremental Builds for Vite, Gradle Test Atomizer by Zack DeRose
Well that's a nice feature set! Incremental builds are super slick, so very happy with this one.

CSS Spring Easing Generator by Kevin Grajeda
The missing piece for crucial CSS snippet tools collection. Wait...

Common Sense Refactoring of a Messy React Component by Alex Kondov
Hey, I'm still missing the final outcome! Spoiler: Instead of one large file we now have 3 new dependencies and 15 files. Just kidding!

An Alpine & Tailwind UI Library by Tony Lea et al.
Looks quite nice, but I wonder if copying over so much code is really efficient if you want to reuse these components. For single use-cases I think this is wonderful.

React Compiler, How Does It Work? 4 - SSA Transformation by YongSeok Jang
The techniques presented in the article also play a role in many other parsers / compilers / transpilers. Super cool!

🙏 Shout-out to all authors for their hard work - thanks for sharing your knowledge!

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