October 9, 2023

ViteConf23 and Motion Deliverables

Hey Folks,

If you didn't catch it ViteConf 23 was last week, but they're running all the talks on repeat. It felt like there weren't as many updates this year, but Vite has planted a flag in ESM (and deprecating CommonJS!) and will eventually roll out 'Rolldown', meant to replace both ESBuild and Rollup. Feels like a bad song in the making...

🎼 Gotta Rollup to Rolldown... 🎶

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Things I Wrote

We concluded the initial motion trilogy with a dive into design process and deliverables. We spent a lot of time reviewing what's helpful when it comes to building motion for the web, and a little bit of what's not!

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Interesting Web Bits

• A pure JS tower defense game
• I wish this sentiment could be boosted everywhere, making a website is for everyone
• Zach Leatherman demos the tablesaw web component which solves a tricky problem of wide HTML tables
• Dan Mall succinctly answers some design questions
• On why note-taking apps don't make us smarter
• This neat demo of View Transitions contains both skeletons AND dad jokes...