Jul 04 2024

Articles I read on my way to work - #13

Highlighted

• window.ai in chrome
• React 19 Actions – How to Simplify Form Submission and Loading States
• Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites - Check if you are using polyfill.js
• Programming mantras are proverbs - Article covering problem of taking programming mantras such as “DRY” to serious and closing yourself off to other options.
• The Need for Speed: A Quick Way to Improve React Testing Times - Oneliner that can speed up your tests a lot

CSS

• 7 CSS Features You Have Not Heard Of - [Video] You can check how many of them you have heard. I’ve heard about 4 out of 7 💪
• How to Use Breakpoints for Responsive Web Design - Some opinionated guidelines on how and when to use RWD

JavaScript

• Why Patching Globals Is Harmful
• How JavaScript Is Finally Improving the Module Experience - About changes that will allow bundlers use ESM instead of CJS. Maybe after many years we will get rid of ESM vs CJS. Click here for Part 2

TypeScript

• Why You Shouldn’t Forget About the ComponentProps Type Helper - My newest blogpost

React

• React 19 Actions – How to Simplify Form Submission and Loading States
• React 19’s useOptimistic: EVERYTHING you NEED to know - [Video] How to use new useOptimistic hook with and without 3rd part libraries.
• React practice: Build a Typewriter effect component
• onClick={someFunction} VS onClick={()=>someFunction} - Is there a difference? Spoiler alert - there is.

Angular

• Angular Router - all you need to know - [PL]

Next.js

• Mastering Next.js Prefetching: Enhance Navigation with the SuperLink Component - An article about one of my favorite Next.js features. Prefetching pages just before the user lands on them.

Testing

• The Need for Speed: A Quick Way to Improve React Testing Times - Oneliner that can speed up your tests a lot

Self-development

• Programming mantras are proverbs - Article covering problem of taking programming mantras such as “DRY” to serious and closing yourself off to other options.
• Do reinvent the wheel - Drawbacks of using libraries instead of writing code ourselfes.

Releases

• New JavaScript Set methods - JS is introducing some new neat Set methods. Now
• Node.js Security Releases

Other

• window.ai in chrome
• Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites - Check if you are using polyfill.js
• What Open Source license should you use? - [Video] About different types of OS and that source available is not the same as open source.