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Chrome has reintroduced a full prerendering feature to speed up navigations using the address bar, bookmarks, search suggestions, and the speculative rules API. This feature achieves nearly instant page loads by opening pages in hidden background tabs and activating them when needed.
All mainstream browsers have supported native CSS nesting since last year. You no longer need to use CSS preprocessors.
Have you used MDN's search box? It has a very handy autocomplete feature. This official blog post reveals what's under the hood and some open-source libraries that are being used.
At WWDC24, Apple introduced new tools for developers. Xcode 16 features Swift Assist with predictive code completion to speed up development. Swift 6 offers compile-time data race safety and other features for a better development experience. visionOS 2 comes with new APIs and frameworks. The Game Porting Toolkit 2 has also been updated, making it easier to develop games for Apple devices.
CSS transitions are a very useful feature, but they have many properties. This article provides a handy cheatsheet that offers common CSS transition code snippets.
Tools
This week, I released version 0.0.3 of my open-source project, KeyEcho. KeyEcho is a fast-responsive application built using Tauri that plays mechanical keyboard sounds as you type.
It now supports 8 different mechanical keyboard sounds and offers enhanced performance. It is still in the early stages, your feedback and contributions are welcomed!
I have personally used this React component in production projects to build web forms through JSON Schema. It provides great flexibility and is supported by many UI frameworks.
Winlator is an Android application that allows you to run Windows (x86_64) applications using Wine and Box86/Box64.
Npm Package Evaluation Websites
In web development, we often need to evaluate many similar Npm packages, including their popularity, download numbers, and existing issues. Here are some online evaluation websites I've collected, such as Moiva, pkg.land, and pickbetterpack.
TypeScript Runtime Validators
TypeScript has become an essential tool for most web developers. One need it doesn't natively support is runtime type safety. This has led to the development of numerous libraries to fill that gap, such as Zod, Yup, TypeBox, Superstruct, Ajv, Joi, Suretype, and Valibot. I have chosen Valibot from among these options.
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