Frontend Weekly Digest #399 (27 Jan — 2 Feb 2025)

Web-development

• Differences between ESLint and TypeScript
• A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet
• Svelte 5 And The Future Of Frameworks: A Chat With Rich Harris

• Updates
  • Chrome 133 Goodies
  • New to the web platform in January
  • Announcing TypeScript 5.8 Beta
• Effects
  • Particles, Progress, and Perseverance: A Journey into WebGPU Fluids
  • Fractals to Forests — Creating Realistic 3D Trees with Three.js
  • How to implement view transitions in multi-page apps

CSS

• How to Wait for the sibling-count() and sibling-index() Functions
• Transitioning Top-Layer Entries And The Display Property In CSS
• Container Queries Unleashed
• Full-Bleed Layout with Modern CSS
• 5 New Amazing CSS Properties To Add To Your Front-end Toolkit in 2025
• View Transitions Snippets: Keeping the page interactive while a View Transition is running
• Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout
• Pure CSS Mixin for Displaying Values of Custom Properties

JavaScript

• Why I Won’t Use JSDOM
• The modern way to write JavaScript servers
• Recent JavaScript Security Vulnerabilities in NPM Packages: A Deep Dive

• React
  • next.js: an honest review
  • Moving on from React, a Year Later
  • 10 Essential Custom React Hooks to Supercharge Your Projects
  • Implementing React Islands in static web applications
• Angular
  • Web Components in Angular: Creating UI Elements for Cross-Framework Compatibility
  • Slots: Make your Angular API flexible
• Libs & Plugins
  • Mapping with Leaflet
  • Introducing Mentoss: The fetch mocker