Issue #350 · December 11, 2023

#350: Keep React - Supercharge Your Web Development

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

— Douglas Hofstadter , Physicist

Hello, |LIST:NAME|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!

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.

Articles

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Book of the week

Graph Databases: New Opportunities for Connected Data

by Ian Robinson

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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