Frontend Links of the Week 51

51st part of the series - advanced links in the area of web frontend development.

Fixing a Bug in Google Chrome as a First-Time Contributor by Casey Primozic
The last time I had a look at the Chromium codebase was years ago - and it is massive. So much respect to the author for getting in there!

The Only Widely Recognized JavaScript Feature Ever Deprecated by Trevor Indrek Lasn
I am happy to say that I don't miss "with". I actually only used it once; and even though it made sense for in that case, there would have been other options.

React Email 3.0 by Gabriel Miranda
Fantastic changes, superb release!

Implementing React From Scratch by Robby Pruzan
Been there, done that. As usual, coming up with something that works is not hard - coming up with something that works as good as the original is difficult.

Developer tools are different than tools for any other profession by Max Stoiber
If Max says so!

Scroll Snap Events by Adam Argyle
Funny - just a couple of weeks after I'd needed that.

State of JavaScript: Insights from the latest JavaScript developer survey by Matthew Tyson
Surprised that the Bun bundler gets a positive rating. That it does not even print some elemental error messages is a red flag for me.

50 TypeScript F!ck Ups Book by Azat Mardan
I like the collection. Definitely worth supporting the author!

Common misconceptions about how to optimize LCP by Brendan Kenny
The images part, unfortunately, is underrated. Having just optimized a web app last week the images optimization part took the project fom a mid 70s rating to a 99 rating in lighthouse. In general I agree though.

Elastic Overflow Scrolling by Dave Seidman
While I don't see it being essential for the Y axis, I think this technique is useful for carousels / on the X axis.

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

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