Weekly Digest 46/2021

Welcome to my Weekly Digest #46 of this year.

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

Flip, Invert, and Reverse

Chuan is going to introduce 3 kinds of transformations for the SVG path commands. Specifically for h/H and v/V commands.

Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator”

In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do we come up with all of the parameters, though? I've built a tool that'll help.

Using Position Sticky With CSS Grid

How to make position sticky work with CSS grid items

Parallax Powered by CSS Custom Properties

Good friend Kent C. Dodds has recently dropped his new website which had a lot of work go into it. I was fortunate enough that Kent reached out a while back and asked if I could come up with some “whimsy” for the site.

Some great videos I watched this week

The new responsive design

Join us as we discuss the latest updates on UI styling, DevTools, and the evolution of responsive design.

by Google Chrome Developers

New in Chrome 96: Improvements for installed PWAs, Priority Hints, and more!

Chrome 96 is rolling out now! There are two new properties in the web app manifest. The id property allows you to specify a unique ID for your PWA, and the protocol_handlers property allows you to automatically register your PWA as a protocol handler upon installation.

by Google Chrome Developers

Introducing the new PageSpeed Insights

Introducing the new PageSpeed Insights: a more intuitive way to measure performance & improve it using real-world and lab data.

by Addy Osmani

How to Code: Rectangular Collision Detection

Rectangular collision detection is a must-know when it comes to video game development. It's a way to tell when two objects touch, so you can call some sort of reactionary event in return, such as gaining a power-up, or ending the game.

by Chris Courses

React Location: Better than React Router?

React Router has been the best in class router for years now. But now the creator of React Query, Tanner Linsley, has developed and just released a new router for the Tanstack named React Location.

by Jack Herrington

Useful GitHub repositories

yq

yq is a portable command-line YAML processor

mikefarah / yq

yq is a portable command-line YAML processor

yq

a lightweight and portable command-line YAML processor. yq uses jq like syntax but works with yaml files as well as json. It doesn't yet support everything jq does - but it does support the most common operations and functions, and more is being added continuously.

yq is written in go - so you can download a dependency free binary for your platform and you are good to go! If you prefer there are a variety of package managers that can be used as well as docker, all listed below.

Quick Usage Guide

Read a value:

yq e '.a.b[0].c' file.yaml

Pipe from STDIN:

cat file.yaml | yq e '.a.b[0].c' -

Update a yaml file, inplace

yq e -i '.a.b[0].c = "cool"' file.yaml

Update using environment variables

NAME=mike yq e -i '.a.b[0].c = strenv(NAME)' file.yaml

Merge multiple files

yq ea '. as $item

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React-Grid-Layout

A draggable and resizable grid layout with responsive breakpoints, for React.

react-grid-layout / react-grid-layout

A draggable and resizable grid layout with responsive breakpoints, for React.

React-Grid-Layout

React-Grid-Layout is a grid layout system much like Packery or Gridster, for React.

Unlike those systems, it is responsive and supports breakpoints. Breakpoint layouts can be provided by the user or autogenerated.

RGL is React-only and does not require jQuery.

GIF from production usage on BitMEX.com

[Demo | Changelog | CodeSandbox Editable demo]

Demos

Projects Using React-Grid-Layout

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Appsmith

Quickly build any custom business software like admin panels, internal tools, dashboards, and more with pre-built UI widgets that connect to any database, GraphQL or REST API, controlling everything with Javascript.

appsmithorg / appsmith

Quickly build any custom business software like admin panels, internal tools, dashboards and more with pre-built UI widgets that connect to any database, GraphQL or REST API, controlling everything with Javascript.

Get Started • Docs • Community • Tutorials • Events • Youtube • Discord • Templates

Turn any datasource into an internal app in minutes. Appsmith lets you drag-and-drop components to build dashboards, write logic with JavaScript objects and connect to any API, database or GraphQL source

Quick Start

The fastest way to start with Appsmith is the cloud-hosted version. When you're ready, you can also host it yourself.

Start building apps immediately with Appsmith Cloud
Install locally or on a private instance with Docker (Recommended)
Deploy on a Kubernetes cluster
Deploy to AWS with an AMI on the marketplace
One-click deploy to Heroku

Features

Use ready components to build workflows in record time. Drag common elements like tables, charts, forms and more right into your app.

Includes text, forms, inputs, buttons, tables, images, charts, checkboxes, switches, radio buttons, datepickers, dropdowns, filepickers, containers, maps, modals, rich text editors, tabs &…

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