#4 It's a quiet place

Hello 👋🏼 frontendies! Welcome to our fourth issue, even better than the previous one, for an even larger group of subscribers than one month ago!

This month was relatively slow, and little happened in the FE world, especially very little platform movement. Vite performance improvements and Node v20 were the most exciting news last month. So it looks like everyone is slowly getting ready for a summer 🏝️ Nonetheless, as usual, there are a bunch of interesting news, articles, and misc links for you, so happy reading, frontendies!

A classic typography technique of hand-authoring line breaks for balanced text blocks comes to CSS. W3C still has it in the draft, so all we can do now is a quick test drive and hope it will get some more traction in the future 🤞🏼

Una Kravets released a new personal website, and it's really good! Beyond being simple, well-organized, and easy to read, it has an intriguing design - combining modern and old-school styles (mid-century websites?). In addition, there are multiple lovely touches, i.e., an alternative hero image for dark mode or a "scrollable" gradient on the unicorn seal.

Package your Nodejs script into a single executable with a built-in node core that you can rely on. Pair this with a current trend of JavaScript tools performance optimizations and trying to prove that language is not a bottleneck, and we may enter a new world of stand-alone JavaScript tools, CLIs, etc. 🎉

Truly features packed, modern CSS gradient and color picking tool. It's fantastic how we can geek out about these little things ♥️

Vite released their next minor version, and it's all about performance! Cold start reduced by ~70%, warm ~40%, HMR ~40% - astonishing improvements! All of that is behind a minor release, so you can use it in your project without breaking changes or migrations. Open source community jumped on it right away, and tools like Storybook or NuxtJS let their users reap the benefits immediately!

CSS framework, built on top of Tailwind CSS, that brings simple components like buttons, badges, input fields, etc., so you don't have to make them from scratch.

The latest release of Nuxt 3 brings exciting new features, including support for the View Transitions API, transferring rich JavaScript payloads from server to client - and much more. But let's not stop there - upgrade to 3.4.2 right away and get these sweet performance improvements with Vite 4.3!

Interesting how the Tailwind CSS and utility-first CSS tools, in general, exploded in the last year or two. As a result, you can try lightweight, fast, and powerful (I have yet to verify any of these claims) alternative to Tailwind CSS - UnoCSS.

Opera released their entirely redesigned browser with a modular interface, performance improvements, interesting tabs islands concept, and Opera fan's favorite - sidebar.

A comprehensive guide that will help you create an inclusive and accessible experience for your users. Lots of good guidance, including different aspects of accessibility like color contrast, legibility, navigation structure, keyboard accessibility, and much more.