Frontend Links of the Week 54

54th part of the series - advanced links in the area of web frontend development.

Look out, kids: PHP is the new JavaScript by Dave Kiss
No, it's not. But generally it's nice to see PHP (and its ecosystem) evolving.

An SSR Performance Showdown by Matteo Collina
Long story short: If you need something simple, choose something that does less work.

Managing Angular by Minko Gechev
Certainly a great read. The only thing I missed is the objective - what's the goal? Seems to me that Angular is still playing catchup.

Oops, I accidentally made our website faster by switching to Remix by Alex Anderson
Maybe drop frameworks all together to make it even faster!

Building the Same App Using Various Web Frameworks by Eugene Yan
Ah another comparison. Seems like this is the main trend for the current week. Spoiler: Performance is not considered in this one.

New Environment API by Vite
With the next iteration of Vite we'll get some exciting new APIs!

11ty is joining Font Awesome by Zach Leatherman
With this partnership the foundation of 11ty is solidified even more. Great work!

Svelte 5 signals fix its glitchy and inconsistent reactivity by Ryan Atkinson
Another reason to switch to Svelte 5 as soon as possible - runes are really wonderful!

Rethinking CSS in JS by MS_Y
One of the longer articles at dev.to, but most certainly worth the read.

Tailwind CSS vs Pico CSS by Andraž Bajt
I am not sure if this is a fair comparison at all, but we are back to "if you need less features, use something with less features".

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

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