Welcome to my Weekly Digest #21.

This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, podcasts, and designs I consumed during this week.

Interesting articles to read

Layouts RFC

This RFC outlines the biggest update to Next.js since it was introduced in 2016:

• Nested Layouts: Build complex applications with nested routes.
• Designed for Server Components: Optimized for subtree navigation.
• Improved Data Fetching: Fetch in layouts while avoiding waterfalls.
• Using React 18 Features: Streaming, Transitions, and Suspense.
• Client and Server Routing: Server-centric routing with SPA-like behavior.
• 100% incrementally adoptable: No breaking changes so you can adopt gradually.
• Advanced Routing Conventions: Offscreen stashing, instant transitions, and more.

Layouts RFC

Lesser-Known And Underused CSS Features In 2022

CSS is constantly evolving, and some cool and useful properties either go completely unnoticed or are not talked about as much as others for some reason or another. In this article, we’ll cover a fraction of those CSS properties and selectors.

Lesser-Known And Underused CSS Features In 2022 - Smashing Magazine

Some great videos I watched this week

Advanced Rendering Patterns

As modern applications are getting more and more complex, it's quite easy to end up with large bundle sizes and long loading times. Although there are many tools that can help with performance, there's still a lot you can do as a developer to load your code more efficiently.

by Lydia Hallie

Serverless for frontend engineers, in 10 minutes

Get a quick overview of what serverless is and what it does for you. From why servers make fun ideas boring to how serverless makes the boring work somebody else’s problem. And a peek into the future with modern platform-integrated frameworks.

by Swizec Teller

Now and .then: Debugging Async JavaScript

Async JavaScript is mind-bending to write, even worse to debug. In this talk, we'll explore why async bugs are difficult, what common missteps create those bugs, and how to debug async code with the debugger.

by Jenn Creighton

Useful GitHub repositories

Wikipedia Speedrun Game

The goal of the game is to navigate from a starting wikipedia article to another one, in the least amount of clicks and time.

git clone https://github.com/B0und/WikiSpeedrun.git

dribbble shots

Task management: to do list dashboard

by Mehdi Bagheri

Cryptio ⁝ Crypto App

by Hesam Mousavi

Prodcast App

by App Ninja

Tweets

Axel Rauschmayer

@rauschma

Soon:

import {parseArgs} from 'node:util';
const args = ['-f', '--bar', 'b'];
const options = {
foo: {
type: 'boolean',
short: 'f'
},
bar: {
type: 'string'
}
};
const {
values, // {foo: true, bar: 'b'}
positionals // []
} = parseArgs({args, options}); twitter.com/trott/status/1…

18:35 PM - 24 May 2022

Rich Trott @trott

`util.parseArgs()` is coming to @nodejs soon. Thanks, @BenjaminCoe and the many others who had a hand in making this happen! https://t.co/kPCmauqDq6

Adam Argyle

@argyleink

the `:modal` pseudo class plus `:has()` may be a nice hook for preventing document scroll while a popup or dialog are showing / modaling (lol sounds like yodeling)

aka:
a light dismiss hint that an overlay needs attention; the background page is waiting for user action twitter.com/intenttoship/s…

16:57 PM - 26 May 2022

Intent To Ship @intenttoship

Blink: Intent to Ship: CSS :modal Pseudo Class https://t.co/444vuRDO3o

Sebastien Lorber 🇫🇷 🦖 ⚛️ 📨

@sebastienlorber

Error Cause as of today:

- Full support in Node 16.14.0 (active) + 18.0.0 (current)

- 82% browser support: good enough, progressive enhancement

Looks like a good time to start adopting it!

09:27 AM - 26 May 2022

GitHub

@github

GitHub is free for teams of any size working on private as well as open source projects. What cool things you are building? github.blog/2020-04-14-git…

15:08 PM - 28 May 2022

Picked Pens

What if <input type="range"> was segmented?

by Jhey

Netlify loading animation

by Lynn Fisher

Podcasts worth listening

TypeScript Tooling Explained

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through TypeScript tooling, build tools, configs, and editors.

Thank you for reading, talk to you next week, and stay safe! 👋