Frontend Weekly Digest #346 (15–21 January 2024)

Fresh Frontend Links
2 min readJan 21, 2024

Web-development

Web Components 2024 Winter Update
Working with IndexedDB
New HTML Control Lands in Safari
The Color Input & The Color Picker
Learn SVG by drawing an arrow
The AHA Stack: Combine Astro, htmx and Alpine.js to create modern web applications sending HTML over the wire, replacing the SPA JS-heavy approach with a much simpler set of mental models and workflows.

CSS

Illustrated CSS: Values and Units of CSS
Illustrated CSS: CSS Box Model
The Complex But Awesome CSS border-image Property
Scrollbar styling
Why do reflows negatively affect performance?
A Practical Introduction to Scroll-Driven Animations with CSS scroll() and view()
My take on fading content using transparent gradients in CSS
Making CSS View Transitions Easy with Velvette

JavaScript

10 print chr$(205.5 + rnd(1));:goto 10 in JavaScript
WebSockets Unlocked: Mastering the Art of Real-Time Communication
D3.js adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives
Exploring Effect, a meta-state RxJS-like framework
Compiling a standalone executable using modern JavaScript/TypeScript runtimes

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