Frontend Weekly Digest #374 (29 July — 4 August 2024)

Fresh Frontend Links
2 min readAug 4, 2024

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Web-development

New to the web platform in July
How the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics has impacted Internet traffic
HTML Web Components Make Progressive Enhancement and CSS Encapsulation Easier!
SVG triangle of compromise
Have It All: External, Styleable, & Scalable SVG
Using qr-code: a customizable, animate-able HTML element
Flexible network data preloading in large SPAs
Node.js Adds Experimental Support for TypeScript
What’s new in Astro — July 2024
How the European Accessibility Act (EAA) will impact the way services are provided

CSS

Zoom effect on hover (single element)
Line-breakable <ruby> and CSS ruby-align property
CSS Functions and Mixins Module Notes
What if you used Container Units for… everything?
Letter Spacing is Broken and There’s Nothing We Can Do About It… Maybe

JavaScript

Garbage collection and closures
Patterns for Memory Efficient DOM Manipulation with Modern Vanilla JavaScript
Reading from the Clipboard in JavaScript
How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process
A different way to think about typescript
ESLint adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives
JavaScript design patterns guide
7 best product tour JavaScript libraries for frontend apps
5 JavaScript Security Best Practices for 2024

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