🖊️ Chris is on vacation this week enjoying the delights Germany has to offer, so it's the editor of JavaScript Weekly at the helm this week! |
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Ways to Ensure Your Content Performs Well in Google's AI Experiences on Search — This is a rather new area to think about, but Google has been showing how keen it is to introduce more AI into its Search product, so a sort of modern variant of SEO is beginning to emerge. These guidelines are simple, but this is a growing area to keep an eye on. John Mueller (Google) |
💡 Mike King's How AI Mode Works and How SEO Can Prepare for the Future of Search goes into far more detail on this topic, and is probably the more interesting read! |
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HTML5 Elements You Didn't Know You Need — If you read MDN on the regular, you might not need this article, but roundups like this are always popular nonetheless. Max digs into Max Prilutskiy |
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📙 Articles, Opinions & Tutorials |
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How to Move a Modal In On a… Chris Coyier |
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React, Visualized: A Visual Exploration of React Concepts — A visual explainer of numerous core React concepts, including modern React 19 features like actions, transitions, and Server Components. There’s a lot to enjoy here if you're a visual learner. Tyler McGinnis et al. |
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🤖 Building a React App with GitHub Copilot — A good walkthrough, complete with video, if you prefer, of bringing together several of GitHub Copilot’s features for building a modern JavaScript app quickly. Kedasha Kerr (GitHub) |
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Creating an Animated Product Grid Preview with GSAP and Gwen Bogaert |
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You Can Style |
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🤖 Running GPT-2 in WebGL: Rediscovering the Lost Art of GPU Shader Programming
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Scroll-Driven Animations Inside a CSS Carousel
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Securing a Form on the Internet: Still Pretty Difficult
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🧰 Tools, Code & Resources |
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ForesightJS: Predictive Mouse Intent Library — An interesting concept, with the entire page acting as a demo of sorts. The idea is to decrease latency by prefetching data or pages as soon as you think a user might be heading in that direction. Your mileage may vary and it’s less useful for touch devices. ForesightJS, Inc. |
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Cap: A Lightweight, Modern Open Source CAPTCHA Alternative — This solution boasts a method called “proof-of-work” which attempts to make automated CAPTCHA solving more expensive. It uses a Web Component and you can try out a few demos here. GitHub repo. Cap |
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snapDOM: Captures DOM Nodes as Images — A fast and accurate DOM-to-image capture mechanism to capture any HTML element as a scalable SVG image, preserving styles, fonts, background images, etc. ZumerLab |
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Ruffle: A Flash Player Emulator — Built in Rust, Ruffle targets both desktop and the web using WebAssembly. It’s a retro idea, but if you have old Flash content to bring back to life, it’s an option. There are some demos to enjoy. Ruffle |
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Docusaurus 3.8: The Docs-Oriented Static Site Generator — The popular React-powered site generator offers a variety of build performance enhancements but, most notably, ‘future flags’, a way to opt-in to forthcoming Docusaurus v4 changes ahead of time to be more prepared for the future (or at least test if you are). Sébastien Lorber |
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