Tech gems 👁️ #4, Astro DB, Rolldown and free authentication guide

• All you need to know about authentication
• Astro DB is out
• Rolldown is coming
• View transitions tutorial

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All you need to know about authentication

The Copenhagen Book

A basic guideline on implementing auth for the web.

thecopenhagenbook.com

Pilcrow, the creator of the popular Lucia package released a free, open-source guide on implementing auth in web applications

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Astro DB is out

Astro DB

The SQL database platform for content-driven websites.

astro.build

Astro studio is coming to life with the release of Astro DB. under the hood, it uses a libSQL (fork of sqlite by Turso) as a database with the Drizzle ORM to provide type-safety with Typescript.

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Rolldown is coming

The Vite bundler is about to become even faster with rust !

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View transitions tutorial

View transitions: Handling aspect ratio changes - JakeArchibald.com

jakearchibald.com

I love view transitions; they're the future, check this out ☝️