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🤯 50 Articles to Become a Web Dev Guru

This year I started a new series on LinkedIn - "Advanced Links for Frontend". Each issue has 10 links to outstanding posts / articles. This bundle contains the links from the last 5 issues (issue 61 to issue 65).

I hope you enjoy this collection. Let me know in the comments which of these articles is your favorite (and why).

Issue 61

Liskov’s Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components (https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/liskovs-gun/) by Baldur Bjarnason

Mozilla rebrand takes from early internet aesthetics, to move its cause to reclaim the web (https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jkr-mozilla-rebrand-graphic-design-project-240924) by Ellis Tree

What's New in Ruby on Rails 8 (https://blog.appsignal.com/2024/10/07/whats-new-in-ruby-on-rails-8.html) by Damilola Olantuji

A modest critique of Htmx (https://chrisdone.com/posts/htmx-critique/) by Chris Done

HTML is for people (https://htmlforpeople.com/) by Blake Watson

17 Must-know React Projects for Developers 👩‍💻 🔥 (https://dev.to/tolgee_i18n/17-must-know-react-projects-for-developers-28a2) by @anmolbaranwal

The story of web framework Hono, from the creator of Hono (https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-story-of-web-framework-hono-from-the-creator-of-hono/) by Yusuke Wada

Sites Now Become Interactive 50% Faster (https://www.framer.com/blog/sites-interactive-faster/) by Jacob Groß

Drag to Select (https://www.joshuawootonn.com/react-drag-to-select) by Joshua Wootonn

Why I’m skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in “faster” languages (https://nolanlawson.com/2024/10/20/why-im-skeptical-of-rewriting-javascript-tools-in-faster-languages/) by Nolan Lawson

Issue 62

Our Journey with Caching (https://nextjs.org/blog/our-journey-with-caching) by Sebastian Markbåge

Offline UX Patterns (https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/main/contributingGuides/OFFLINE_UX.md) by Expensify

World Wide Web Foundation closes so Tim Berners-Lee can spend more time with his protocol (https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/30/world_wide_web_foundation_closes/) by Thomas Claburn

why I'm turning off Firefox ad tracking: the PPA paradox (https://blog.zgp.org/why-turn-off-firefox-ad-tracking/) by Don Marti

Hyper-Scale Activated! Ship Your Own FaaS 🤖 (https://dev.to/smapiot/hyper-scale-activated-ship-your-own-faas-40kg) by @florianrappl

Next.js 15 (https://nextjs.org/blog/next-15) by Delba de Oliveira et al

AWS Data Center Latencies - Visualized (https://benjdd.com/aws/) by Benjamin Dicken

Where web components shine (https://daverupert.com/2024/10/super-web-components-sunshine/) by Dave Rupert

Netlify joins OpenNext (https://www.netlify.com/blog/netlify-joins-opennext/) by Mathias Biilmann

New Architecture is here (https://reactnative.dev/blog/2024/10/23/the-new-architecture-is-here) by The React Team

Issue 63

Expo SDK 52 beta is now available (https://expo.dev/changelog/2024/10-24-sdk-52-beta) by Brent Vatne

That's Not an Abstraction, That's Just a Layer of Indirection (https://fhur.me/posts/2024/thats-not-an-abstraction) by Fernando Hurtado

An Early Glimpse of TanStack Start (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuHqwQsf64o) by Tanner Lindsey

How we shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size by 94% (https://www.jonathancreamer.com/how-we-shrunk-our-git-repo-size-by-94-percent/) by Jonathan Creamer

Making content-aware components using CSS :has(), grid, and quantity queries (https://piccalil.li/blog/making-content-aware-components-using-css-has-grid-and-quantity-queries/) by Eric Bailey

Remix Todo App: Part 1 - Building the App Layout and Structure (https://www.udohjeremiah.com/blog/remix-todo-app-part-1-building-the-app-layout-and-structure) by Udoh Jeremiah

Using Rust in Non-Rust Servers to Improve Performance (https://github.com/pretzelhammer/rust-blog/blob/master/posts/rust-in-non-rust-servers.md) by Pretzelhammer

Interactive Select component using Phoenix LiveView and vanilla JS Hook (https://aurmartin.fr/posts/phoenix-liveview-select/) by Aurélien Martin

Unleash the Power of Scroll-Driven Animations (https://css-tricks.com/unleash-the-power-of-scroll-driven-animations/) by Geoff Graham

Incremental adoption of micro-frontends with Cloudflare Workers (https://blog.cloudflare.com/fragment-piercing/) by Peter Bacon Darwin, Dario Piotrowicz, James Culveyhouse, Igor Minar

Issue 64

Headless, boneless, skinless & lifeless UI (https://nerdy.dev/headless-boneless-and-skinless-ui) by Adam Argyle

On Crafting Painterly Shaders (https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-crafting-painterly-shaders/) by Maxime Heckel

Smarter than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content (https://alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-directly-to-web-page-content.html) by Ahmad Alfy

Simplfying Islands Architecture (https://preactjs.com/blog/simplifying-islands-arch/) by Siddharth Gelera

Going through the “State of CSS” results… (https://www.joshwcomeau.com/email/2024-10-22-css-survey/) by Josh W. Comeau

Rendering Outlines with a Post-processing Shader (https://www.atomwolf.org/posts/rendering-outlines-with-a-post-processing-shader/) by Adam Wolf

Should JavaScript be split into two languages? New Google-driven proposal divides opinion (https://devclass.com/2024/10/22/should-javascript-be-split-into-two-languages-new-google-driven-proposal-divides-opinion/) by Tim Anderson

Introducing Wasmer 5.0 (https://wasmer.io/posts/introducing-wasmer-v5) by Syrus Akbary

Should masonry be part of CSS grid? (https://ishadeed.com/article/css-grid-masonry/) by Ahmad Shadeed

Recap: Next.js Conf 2024 (https://vercel.com/blog/recap-next-js-conf-2024) by Lee Robinson, Delba de Oliveira

Issue 65

How headless components became the future for building UI libraries (https://www.subframe.com/blog/how-headless-components-became-the-future-for-building-ui-libraries) by Irvin Zhan

Hyperkit (https://www.chrsgrrtt.com/hyperkit) by Chris Garrett

Converting any website to a React component (https://www.magicpatterns.com/blog/any-website-to-react-component) by Teddy Ni

HTML Form Validation is heavily underused (https://expressionstatement.com/html-form-validation-is-heavily-underused) by everdimension

Using Shadcn UI without a Tailwind Config File (https://www.luisball.com/blog/shadcn-ui-with-tailwind-v4) by Luis Ball

Debugging Microservices & Distributed Systems (https://sentry.io/resources/debugging-microservices-and-distributed-systems/) by Sarah Guthals

RFC: An updated style guide for the year 2024 (https://github.com/angular/angular/discussions/58412) by Jeremy Elbourn

My solar-powered and self-hosted website (https://dri.es/my-solar-powered-and-self-hosted-website) by Dries Buytaert

HTTP Tunnel and Proxy in JavaScript (https://dbushell.com/2024/10/22/http-tunnel-proxy/) by David Bushell

What's a Single-Page App? (https://jakelazaroff.com/words/whats-a-single-page-app/) by Jake Lazaroff

Conclusion

These are all outstanding articles by masterful authors. I enjoyed reading them all - I hope you did find something in there, too.

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🙏 Thanks to all the authors and contributors for their hard work!

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