Delightful UI Animations with the Shared Element Transitions API — Adrian shares how the Shared Element Transitions API is a “game-changing feature that will enable us to create impressive and elaborate UI animations easily.” This post explores the potential by building real-life examples from scratch.

Adrian Bece (Smashing Magazine)

Templating in HTML with <template> — A quick reminder about the <template> element and how it can come in handy, though folks on Hacker News were quick to pick up on its limitations.

Kitty Giraudel

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The 'New Wave' of JavaScript Web Frameworks — A few months ago he covered the new wave of React state management and now Rem is back trying to “make sense of the proliferation of new JavaScript web frameworks.” As are we all. Vue, Svelte, Solid, Remix, Astro and Qwik all make an appearance here.

Rem

More Details on the Transition to Manifest V3 — Outlines new details about the (arguably controversial) plan for Chrome to move extensions over to Manifest V3 (basically Chrome's new extension platform) including key dates in January and June 2023.

David Li (Chrome Developers)

Element Timing: One True Metric to Rule Them All? — Largest Contentful Paint (aka LCP) is a Core Web Vital that’s gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but it’s not without its pitfalls. The author shares how Element Timing can be a better way to track the performance of the page elements that matter most to site owners and visitors, especially on SPAs.

Andy Davies (Speedcurve)

Meta on Launching a New Chromium-Based WebView for Android — Facebook’s in-app browser on Android devices is being updated in an effort to improve security, performance, and the overall user experience.

Nate Schloss (Meta)

Free Webinar! Sprinkle the Clean Code Magic in Your JavaScript Projects

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When Going Somewhere Does a Thing: On Links and Buttons — If it goes somewhere, it’s a link. If it does something, it’s a button. Are those two things always mutually exclusive?

Kilian Valkhof

Will Serving 'Real' HTML Content Make a Site Faster? — A good comparison of SSR performance on most of the top full stack JavaScript frameworks. Astro and Sveltekit, two of the newer generation of frameworks, come out on top in many of their measurements.

Scott Jehl

'I Am Not That Excited About New CSS Features' — Some quick thoughts on the flurry of new CSS features we have seen of late and whether adoption of these additional riches may be slow.

Silvestar Bistrović

50+ Shapes: Copy the CSS for Just About Any Shape — Not just run-of-the-mill stuff (triangle, oval, diamond, etc.) but also unique shapes like a checkmark, yin/yang symbol, octagon, cylinder, and lots more.

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Tailwind CSS Variant Generator — Automatically sort Tailwind CSS classes into shared and unique attributes with this browser-based tool. Here’s a video showing how you may approach using it.

Charlie Joseph

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icons.download: A Free Set of Open-Source SVG Icons in 16 Styles — A nice set of icons with strokes in 4 different thicknesses along with options for outline and solid styles, and round vs. sharp corners.

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Illustration Link: 80+ Links Where You Can Find Free Illustrations for Your Project — A searchable directory that includes stuff we’ve linked to before (and more) but compiled into a single resource.

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dark-mode-toggle: A Dark Mode Toggle Component for React — Not to be confused with the Google Chrome team’s component of the same name, this one is specifically for use in React.

Anatoliy Gatt

Nightdrive — An expalanation of a JavaScript demo/simulation of driving at night time on the freeway/motorway — created reasonbly simply by drawing circles on a HTML canvas. There's a full screen version, with music, here.

James Stanley