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Let's Build UI Newsletter #1

Today we have a few new articles to announce, some interesting reads and more!

Dec 16, 2023
2 min read

Welcome to issue #1!

Today we have a few new articles to announce, some interesting reads and more!

🚨 New Content Alert

Some articles were recently published on Let's Build UI!

First, if you're curious about how to use sound in React, be sure to check out Working with Sound in React.

If you want to learn about CSS animations and how to use them to display 3D content, then How to Build a Card Flip Animation may be for you.

âž• What's New in the Frontend Universe

Meta recently open sourced StyleX . This CSS-in-JS styling solution has been powering Facebook, Instagram, and What's App for a number of years, and now you can use it in your projects.

The Chrome developer blog published CSS Wrapped: 2023: a detailed guide of all the new CSS and UI features that were shipped this year in Chrome.

Want a recap of your 2023 GitHub activity? GitHub Unwrapped takes your highlights for the year and outputs them as an awesome shareable video.

📚 Interesting Reads

  1. We will soon have a way to work directly with Google Maps using React! Introducing React components for the Maps JavaScript API.
  2. There's been a lot of news about React Server Components this year. If you're wondering what all the hype is about, What Even Are React Server Components is a good place to start.
  3. In A Few Ways CSS Is Easier To Write In 2023, Geoff Graham explains several modern ways to make your CSS cleaner and, in fact, easier to write.

🧰 Cool Tools

Helpful tools from around the web. These links are not sponsored.

CSS Analytics - Project Wallace
The best CSS Analyzer on the web. Check your CSS complexity, specificity, performance, design tokens and much more.
projectwallace.com
Knip
Project linter to find unused files, dependencies and exports in JavaScript and TypeScript projects
knip.dev
Faker | Faker
Generate massive amounts of fake (but reasonable) data for testing and development.
Get Started

✨ Tips & Tricks

Did you know that VSCode supports sticky scroll? After enabling the setting, scrolling through a file will stick namespaces, classes, and methods to the top of the editor window. You can also navigate to the top of an indentation level by clicking on a specific line.

👋 The End

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