Breakpoint - Issue 8
Hey folks,
I have been away for 2 weeks. First was I went to Las Vegas with my family and it was fun and beautiful. In the second week I found out my ring finger got super swollen and couldn’t function properly so went to emergency twice and till this day it’s still not functional and don’t know what is going on. But that doesn’t mean we should stop learning, let’s see what we have for this week.
🖥️ Frontend Shares
Unveiling the Magic: Exploring Reactivity Across Various Frameworks
There are many JavaScript frameworks out there you use to build your next app. To its essence, you update your state, and it renders the UI for you. This article describes and compares how each framework does it and what happens behind the scene when your states are updated.
Google IO was couple weeks ago that I totally missed. This video talks about some of the relatively new things that are supported by most browsers that you can use today. This includes a dialog element in HTML, new viewport units that give you better control for mobile browsers, structuredClone for deep copying, and etc.
Qwik Framework Deep-Dive Full Course with Misko Hevery (The Creator of Angular & now Qwik)
Learning Qwik has been on my list of some time and this deep-dive full course with the creator of Qwik just pops up at the right time.
Catching Up With Web Performance
I think I have found the podcast that is for me. After talking to a Staff Engineer who told me I should find a niche I want to be an expert in, I’ve decided to dig into web performance because nothing matters if your apps are slow to show off the cool features you have built. This podcast shares stories how other people learning and working with improving web performance.
I feel TypeScript 5.0 was just announced and now 5.1 is almost around the corner. They’ve added lots of new things and optimizations since the previous release but what caught my eyes in 5.1 are some of the improvements for JSX. It does feel JSX is becoming a core feature in frontend land.