Frontend Weekly Digest #395 (30 December 2024–5 January 2025)

Web-development

• New Front-End Features For Designers In 2025
• TypeScript without Build Tools
• View Transitions Snippets: Getting all Animations linked to a View Transition

• Updates
  • December 2024 Google Core Update
  • What’s new in Astro — December 2024
  • What’s new in Svelte: January 2025
• Performance
  • Using DevTools to Validate Web Performance Improvements
  • Designing websites for bad performance
  • Breaking Up with Long Tasks or: how I learned to group loops and wield the yield

CSS

• CSS wants to be a system
• CSS is Emotional: The Psychology of Specificity
• Fabulous Font-Face Fallbacks
• Pure CSS scroll-triggered image reveal
• Some Things About Keyframes
• Smooth rotation with modern CSS
• Elegant Long Press Implementation Using CSS Animation

JavaScript

• Top JavaScript Frameworks and Libraries to Watch in 2025
• Hide Data in PNG Files Using JavaScript: A Step-by-Step Guide
• JavaScript scroll snap events for scroll-triggered animations
• TypeScript Generics: A Complete Guide

• React
  • How React 19 can help you make faster websites
  • How to Optimize Next.js Web Apps for Better Performance
  • React is finally going to handle View Transitions first-class
  • Scaffolding your internationalization in React with automation
• Vue
  • 11 JavaScript Fundamentals for Vue Developers
  • Vue Vine — Another style to write Vue
  • Building a multi-lingual web app with Nuxt 3 and Nuxt i18n