Welcome to my Weekly Digest #9 of this year.

This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, podcasts, and designs I consumed during this week.

Interesting articles to read

Headless components in React and why I stopped using a UI library for our design system

In the past five years, Nir has been working on major front-end projects at Gloat. In this blog post, he will focus on what he learned when building Gloat’s design system and how he moved from using UI libraries like MUI to using headless components.

Headless components in React and why I stopped using a UI library for our design system

Understanding CSRF Attacks

Zell went about researching web security recently as he was writing Understanding Asynchronous JavaScript — He wanted to make sure my recommendations were secure and he is not doing any of his students a disservice with his recommendations. Unfortunately, articles in the security

Understanding CSRF Attacks

*Building Pages in Storybook*

Building pages in an app might seem straightforward at first, but as your project matures things get more complicated. What happens if the network fails or the data is missing? Or worse, your app …

Building Pages in Storybook

Some great videos I watched this week

How to rotate a vector

by Freya Holmér

10 React Antipatterns to Avoid

React is minimal on the surface, but it’s actually a highly complex JavaScript UI library with many potential pitfalls. In this tutorial, we look at 10 antipatterns in React, along with tips and tricks to improve our code.

by Fireship

New in Chrome 99: CSS Cascade Layers, Show Picker, and more!

Chrome 99 is rolling out now! CSS cascade layers give you more control over your CSS and help to prevent style-specificity conflicts. The showPicker method allows you to programmatically show a browser picker for input elements like date, color, and datalist.

by Google Chrome Developers

This video was made with code. But how?

Learn how to produce video content programmatically with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript thanks to Remotion - a React library that can create real MP4 videos.

by Fireship

Useful GitHub repositories

*Locomotive Scroll*

Detection of elements in viewport & smooth scrolling with parallax effects.

npm install locomotive-scroll

<h1 data-scroll>Hey</h1>
<p data-scroll>👋</p>

import LocomotiveScroll from 'locomotive-scroll';
const scroll = new LocomotiveScroll();

<script src="locomotive-scroll.min.js"></script>
<script>
    (function () {
        var scroll = new LocomotiveScroll();
    })();
</script>

<div data-scroll-container>
    <div data-scroll-section>
        <h1 data-scroll>Hey</h1>
        <p data-scroll

Floating UI

A low-level toolkit to position floating elements while intelligently keeping them in view. Tooltips, popovers, dropdowns, menus, and more

npm install @floating-ui/dom

yarn add @floating-ui/dom

import {computePosition} from '@floating-ui/dom';
const referenceElement = document.querySelector('#button');
const floatingElement = document

dribbble shots

Game application UI design

by uixNinja

*NFT Dark Theme Landing Page UI Design*

by Mostafijur Rahman

*Online Food Mobile App Design*

by SH Shakil

Tweets

Jecelyn Yeen

@jecelynyeen

Just landed in Chrome Canary. You can now import & export recording as a JSON file in @ChromeDevTools.

A game changer for bug reporting maybe? That's exactly what I did. 👀

Fill a bug to my teammate with the JSON while looking for flat in Munich lol. 😆 crbug.com/1302555

15:08 PM - 03 Mar 2022

Jen Simmons

@jensimmons

I love seeing this diagram from @argyleink of Chrome DevRel showing how the new Viewport Units (specifically svh, lvh, dvh) will work in Chrome for Android.

These units are going to be super helpful on all mobile devices, in all the browsers.

17:46 PM - 03 Mar 2022

Stefan Judis

@stefanjudis

Now that's a nice @code addition – `Surround With Snippet`. 👏

Video alt: Example showing how to wrap a line of code with an if/else or try/catch statement.

22:01 PM - 03 Mar 2022

Mia (but older)

@terriblemia

🥳 Chrome 99 rolled out this week, with Cascade Layers on by default.

👀 Meanwhile, the latest Chrome Canary includes layer-inspecting dev tools. Click on a layer name, or that little layer icon to see a list of all the layers involved, and their stacking order.

19:32 PM - 04 Mar 2022

Steve Schoger

@steveschoger

Designing for dark mode as an afterthought can be really tricky. Here are a few things you can try that might help you be more successful 🧵

16:16 PM - 04 Mar 2022

Picked Pens

CSS Knob widget with Range Slider

by S. Shahriar

4000 Followers - Thank You!

by Adam Kuhn

Podcasts worth listening

CodePen Radio – *Ryan Mulligan*

This week Chris gets to talk to Ryan Mulligan! Ryan put together a Collection of some of his personal picks for favorite Pens and they get a chance to talk through a lot of them.

Syntax – Wes and Scott React to the State of JS

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott take a look at the 2021 State of JS survey.

Thank you for reading, talk to you next week, and stay safe! 👋