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December 11, 2023

☃️ #350: Keep React - Supercharge Your Web Development

Advanced screenshots with Playwright, 10 Weird HTML Hacks, Pravatar, nft, Design best practices, tldts

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Welcome yet another issue of FullStackBulletin, precisely issue #350! This week we have a good variety of FullStack content and no big major personal news, so I'll leave you to enjoy all this goodness!
Have fun!

“Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law“

— Douglas Hofstadter , Physicist

Keep React - Supercharge Your Web Development

Keep React - Supercharge Your Web Development — Explore a library of 40+ open-source React UI components and interactive elements, empowering you to create stunning web projects effortlessly. Read article

Advanced usage patterns for taking page element screenshots with Playwright — This awesome post shows you some advanced usage patterns for working with Playwright to take a screenshot of a specific element and modify the contents of the image, either before taking the screenshot or after, using image preprocessing tools. Read article

10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped The Internet — If you have been around the block of web development for a while you might remember a time when to accomplish anything you needed to write tons of CSS hacks that will accommodate for various bugs or inconsistencies across browsers. Today is a much brighter landscape, but it's still worth looking back at what we were doing once because there's always something useful to learn from the past! Read article

Pravatar - CC0 Avatar Placeholder — If you are building an app and you need some realistic (but legally legit) avatar pictures, check out this FREE service. The part I love the most is that you can pass an email address or a hash to get back the same avatar consistently, so this is something cool for demos that require programmatically generated users. Read article

vercel/nft: Node.js dependency tracing utility —  Not the kind of NFT you might be thinking about. In this case, it stands for Node.js File Trace and it's a powerful library that allows you to determine exactly which files are necessary for the application runtime. View Repository

Care beyond code: 7 best design practices for frontend developers — Frontend can be about more than just code—we’re also the last bastion helping our teams against pesky design bugs! This article shares 7 best design practices for frontend engineers. Read article

remusao/tldts: extract domains, subdomains and public suffixes — TLDTS is a JavaScript library that allows you to extract domains, subdomains, and public suffixes from complex URIs. One use case where I can see this being useful is when you need to validate a URL and make sure it's a public one. View Repository

Graph Databases: New Opportunities for Connected Data

by Ian Robinson

Graph Databases: New Opportunities for Connected Data

Discover how graph databases can help you manage and query highly connected data. With this practical book, you’ll learn how to design and implement a graph database that brings the power of graphs to bear on a broad range of problem domains. Whether you want to speed up your response to user queries or build a database that can adapt as your business evolves, this book shows you how to apply the schema-free graph model to real-world problems.

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This Monday deserves more content! 🪇

  • Printing Perfection, A Developer’s Journey with React-to-Print
  • You don't need JavaScript for that
  • An Informed Pre-caching Strategy for Large Sites
  • Why web perf tools should be reporting website carbon emissions
  • Does Interaction to Next Paint actually correlate to user behavior?
  • Examples of Great URL Design
  • Updates from the 99th TC39 meeting

👋 That’s all for this week. See you next Monday!

Greetings from your full stack friends Luciano & Andrea

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