42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. For us, as #web #developers this has to mean JavaScript. In any case... another week, another great set of #articles #projects and #posts in the #webdev #frontend space. Enjoy reading!
Enhancing The New York Times Web Performance with React 18 by The NYT Open Team
I'm surprised it was not "with Svelte". Still, good article - great suggestions.
The 3 Types of CSS Utility Classes by James Kerr
Luckily, this one is not about Tailwind. Thanks James!
Exploring Randomness In JavaScript by Ben Nadel
TL;DR: For practical purposes stay at Math.random, but for security needs use crypto.
The many faces of undefined in JavaScript by Edaqa Mortoray
Honestly, I like undefined - but I don't like null.
Web Performance Guide by Steve Souders et al.
This is a wonderful guide with all concepts and recommendations aggregated.
ECMAScript 2024 JavaScript standard approved by Paul Krill
I promise with resolvers that we wait async for unicode strings to be well formed, just to group by regular expressions with advanced features.
A webassembly sandbox to safely execute Javascript inside of Javascript/Typescript applications by Sebastian Wessel
We've really come full circle - but this one fulfills a real need in my opinion. Fantastic!
How we tamed Node.js event loop lag: a deepdive by Eric Allam
I never saw the issue, but now I know how I could handle it.
Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS by Simon Lecoq
These semantic styling libraries always give me such a desire to use them - but once I use them I just feel too limited. Maybe that's just me.
State-of-the-art JavaScript utility library by Sojin Park
This is a actually fantastic project - awesome job!
🙏 Shout-out to all authors for their hard work - thanks for sharing your knowledge!