JSter #189: Libraries and more

In a few years npm will reach ten million packages

The JavaScript ecosystem keeps growing at an exponential pace. One day we’ll reach Mars and beyond.

Libraries

• Vessel.js - Design ships in JavaScript
• 11ty/eleventy-activity-feed - One feed to rule them all
• visx - A collection of expressive, low-level visualization primitives for React
• React Virtuoso - Powerful yet easy-to-use React components that can render enormous data sets
• vanilla-jsoneditor - A web-based tool to view, edit, format, transform, and validate JSON
• ts-safeql/safeql - Validate and auto-generate TypeScript types from raw SQL queries in PostgreSQL
• hyperfetch - Data Fetching, Offline First, Caching, Queueing

Articles

• Do you really understand CSS radial-gradients?
• So you want to make a new JS framework
• Your Accessibility Claims Are Wrong, Unless…
• Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem
• Javascript Questions for the Dazed and Confused
• The State of JS 2022

Tools

• Introducing Jampack - Speed up your static site
• Announcing TypeScript 5.0 Beta
• Astro 2.0 - The major site generator has reached a new milestone
• LocatorJS - Click on a component to go to its code
• pixel-point/fontpie - Get your layout shifts optimized with a CLI-generated piece of CSS
• val town - Write scripts and run
• zachleat/speedlify - Benchmark the web performance and accessibility of sites over time

Techniques

• Form-Associated Custom Elements
• The Hidden Power of Custom States For Web Components
• The paired hook pattern for React

CSS

• CSS Timeline - What was done and when
• Cube CSS - A new CSS methodology
• Stylify - Code your website faster with CSS-like utilities
• Critical CSS? Not So Fast!
• joe-bell/cva - Class Variance Authority
• @acab/reset.css - Yet another CSS reset

Games

• slow roads - Endless driving zen