Weekly Digest 45/2021

Welcome to my Weekly Digest #45.

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

Rust Is The Future of JavaScript Infrastructure

Why is Rust being used to replace parts of the JavaScript web ecosystem like minification (Terser), transpilation (Babel), formatting (Prettier), bundling (webpack), linting (ESLint), and more?

The Golden Ratio and User-Interface Design

Although traditionally used in art and architecture, the golden ratio can be referenced to design aesthetically pleasing interfaces.

Interactive Rebase: Clean up your Commit History

Interactive Rebase is the Swiss Army knife of Git commands: lots of use cases and lots of possibilities!

Some great videos I watched this week

Cleaning Up Copilot Code

GitHub Copilot is a great helper, but you it's just the copilot. Let's take the pilot's chair and turn some not-so-great Copilot code and turn it into high-quality production-ready TypeScript code.

by Jack Herrington

Knobs!

Yair Even Or has a neat project called Knobs that adds UI controls that adjust CSS Custom Properties instantly any way you need them to. There is more to the project than that, but that's how we use them here to control some generative art.

by Chris Coyier

Webpack alternative: ESBuild

by Clem Tech

Shopify built a JS Framework

Shopify just announced a React-based JavaScript framework called Hydrogen. It is similar to Next.js but has extra features for e-commerce and data fetching with GraphQL.

by Fireship

Chrome 96 - What’s New in DevTools

New CSS Overview panel, emulate CSS prefers-contrast media and Chrome’s auto dark mode, and more.

by Google Chrome Developers

Useful GitHub repositories

Fantasy Map Generator

Fantasy Map Generator is a free web application generating interactive and highly customizable svg maps based on voronoi diagram.

Azgaar / Fantasy-Map-Generator

Web application generating interactive and highly customizable maps

Fantasy Map Generator

Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator is a free web application generating interactive and highly customizable svg maps based on voronoi diagram.

Project is under development, the current version is available on Github Pages.

Refer to the project wiki for guidance. The current progress is tracked in Trello. Some details are covered in my old blog Fantasy Maps for fun and glory.

Join our Discord server and Reddit community to share your creations, discuss the Generator, suggest ideas and get the most recent updates.

Contact me via email if you have non-public suggestions. For bug reports please use GitHub issues or #bugs channel on Discord. If you are facing performance issues, please read the tips.

Electron desktop application is available in releases. Download archive for your architecture, unzip and run.

Pull requests are highly welcomed. The codebase is messy and requires re-design, but I…

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GitHub Pages Deploy Action

This GitHub Action will automatically deploy your project to GitHub Pages. It can be configured to push your production-ready code into any branch you'd like, including gh-pages and docs.

JamesIves / github-pages-deploy-action

Automatically deploy your project to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions. This action can be configured to push your production-ready code into any branch you'd like.

GitHub Pages Deploy Action 🚀

This GitHub Action will automatically deploy your project to GitHub Pages. It can be configured to push your production-ready code into any branch you'd like, including gh-pages and docs. It can also handle cross repository deployments and works with GitHub Enterprise too

Getting Started ✈️

You can include the action in your workflow to trigger on any event that GitHub actions supports. If the remote branch that you wish to deploy to doesn't already exist the action will create it for you. Your workflow will also need to include the actions/checkout step before this workflow runs in order for the deployment to work.

You can view an example of this below.

name: Build and Deploy
on: [push]
jobs
  build-and-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout 🛎️
        uses: actions/[email protected]

      - name: Install and Build

…

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quicktype

quicktype generates strongly-typed models and serializers from JSON, JSON Schema, TypeScript, and GraphQL queries, making it a breeze to work with JSON type-safely in many programming languages.

quicktype / quicktype

Generate types and converters from JSON, Schema, and GraphQL

quicktype generates strongly-typed models and serializers from JSON, JSON Schema, TypeScript, and GraphQL queries, making it a breeze to work with JSON type-safely in many programming languages.

Try quicktype in your browser.
Read 'A first look at quicktype' for more introduction.
If you have any questions, check out the FAQ first.

Supported Inputs

JSON	JSON API URLs	JSON Schema

TypeScript	GraphQL queries

Target Languages

Ruby	JavaScript	Flow	Rust	Kotlin

Dart	Python	C#	Go	C++

Java	TypeScript	Swift	Objective-C	Elm

JSON Schema	Pike	Prop-Types	Haskell

Missing your favorite language? Please implement it!

Installation

There are many ways to use quicktype. app.quicktype.io is the most powerful and complete UI. The web app also works offline and doesn't send your sample data over the Internet, so paste away!

For the best CLI, we recommend installing quicktype globally via npm:

npm install -g quicktype

Other options:

Homebrew (infrequently updated)
Xcode…

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dribbble shots

Tweets

Stefan Judis

@stefanjudis

Whoop whoop! 🎉 `input-security` (the standardized way to toggle the display of password input values) ships in Safari Tech preview. 💪

🔗 Spec: drafts.csswg.org/css-ui/#input-…

Video alt: Showing the usually obscured input field value using `input-security`.

09:39 AM - 07 Nov 2021

Rik Schennink

@rikschennink

🧪 Use CSS numeric factory functions instead of string concatenation to set style unit values.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web…

08:23 AM - 09 Nov 2021

Chris Heilmann

@codepo8

CSS is so much fun these days. Defining the font as vh in portrait mode and vw in landscape and then multiplying it with what you need…

21:55 PM - 11 Nov 2021

Kent C. Dodds

@kentcdodds

Well this is pretty sweet: umaar.com/dev-tips/249-c…

18:06 PM - 12 Nov 2021

Picked Pens

Paper plane

by Temani Afif

Generative Bauhaus Grid Patterns

by George Francis

Diagonal Page Transitions

by Chris Coyier

Podcasts worth listening

CodePen Radio – Challenges

Marie and Chris talk about CodePen Challenges, which have been going strong for many years now.

Call with Kent – Learning Gaps & Cluelessness as a Developer

Hello Kent, I learnt software development in a self-taught path and I really didn't do a good job because when I hear words like Serverless and others, I don't have the first clue what they are talking about.