What happened last week - issue #69

This week: AHA Stack, npm, Transition API and more

What happened last week

It was a really busy week for me. At Patchstack we are planning some exciting stuff for the upcoming year and I already can’t wait to share more details (especially those that I will be responsible for). Also, I finally feel that I’m back in the zone when comes to working after this 1 month break.

Apart from this I finally became a scout on daily.dev, which means I can finally submit articles there.

I mentioned last week that Marc Backes motivated me to build a New Year’s Resolution page - and I did.

And last, but not least - don’t forget about today’s episode of Code and Coffee Show, where together Hana we’ll talk about using GitHub Co-pilot.

Interesting links

The AHA Stack — Flavio Copes

Flavio created an AHA Stack, which means Astro, HTMX, and Alpine.js. I think it’s an amazing combo for building small and medium websites. It’s one of those solutions that make development fun again.

When “Everything” Goes Wrong: NPM Dependency-Hell Campaign – 2024 Edition — Jossef Harush

What will happen if you create a npm package that uses all the other packages as dependencies? It turns out it can cause a lot of problems - for example, no one will be able to delete their package because it’s already used as a dependency.

The View Transitions API And Delightful UI Animations (Part 1) — Adrian Bece

Adrian created a two-part tutorial in which he explains all the magic behind Transitions API. I love how simple it is and how amazing the results it creates.

Build your own image gallery CMS — Rishi Raj Jain

Rishi shows how to build an image gallery using Xata as a CMS (and Astro on the front).

The world's smallest PNG — Evan Hahn

Have you ever wondered how small a PNG file can be? Me neither. But Evan and explained what is the limit and how to achieve this.

What should we ship? — Rauno Freiberg

Vercel launched its new website in October and Rauno goes step-by-step explaining how it was created.

Better Commits — Erik Verduin

Erik created a very handy tool for teams that have a more structured way of writing git commit messages. Thanks to Better Commits you don’t have to remember the structure - you just follow the instructions step-by-step.

And how was your week? Did you learn something interesting? Don’t hesitate to press the reply button or share your thoughts in the comment section.

Cheers,

Maciek