Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Sub-atomic!

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

This looks like such a cool project from Adam Argyle. I’m not a designer, so I’d struggle building out design tokens. I’m definitely going to be checking this out!

Open Props: sub-atomic styles

Open source CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design. Available from a CDN or NPM, as CSS or Javascript.

open-props.style

Announcing The Astro Technology Company | Astro

The Astro Technology Company has formed to support the Astro open source project and build a better platform for web developers everywhere.

astro.build

Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps

Users of popular open-source libraries ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Some surmised if the NPM libraries had been compromised, but it turns out there’s more to the story.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

Next,js is proposing to remove ES5 support!

RFC: Change default JS/CSS output to target modern browsers · Discussion #33227 · vercel/next.js · GitHub

RFC: Change default JS/CSS output to target modern browsers

github.com

Announcing Rust 1.58.0 | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

blog.rust-lang.org

Fun Stuff

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shameless plugs

Last week Anthony Campolo, Developer Advocate at StepZen joined us to chat about GraphQL and StepZen studio. He showed us how to quickly set up and use an API with StepZen studio which he used as a data source for a SvelteKit based blog.

Thanks again for joining us Anthony!

Dan Abramov & Maggie Appleton are joining me on the DEV Twitch stream this Wednesday at 5pm UTC!

We’ll discuss JavaScript, the Just JavaScript course, and who knows what else?!

Come by and say hi!

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DEV is a community of software developers getting together to help one another out. The software industry relies on collaboration and networked learning. We provide a place for that to happen.

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