Welcome to my Weekly Digest #22 of this year, which is the first one of June. Finally, summer has arrived ☀️
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
Trigonometry in CSS and JavaScript
In this series of articles we’ll get an overview of trigonometry, understand how it can be useful, and delve into some creative applications in CSS and JavaScript.
Trigonometry in CSS and JavaScript: Introduction to Trigonometry | Codrops
A better segmented control
A few years ago, we built a segmented control component for the Lyft Product Language (LPL) design system. However, when we recently looked at our component adoption and usage metrics, we found very few teams actually used our segmented control when building products and features.
Creating a CLI tool with Node.js
In this article, you'll learn how to create a CLI tool using Node.js, test it, and then publish it on NPM.
Creating a CLI tool with Node.js - LogRocket Blog
The Testing Trophy and Testing Classifications
How to interpret the testing trophy for optimal clarity
The Testing Trophy and Testing Classifications
Some great videos I watched this week
The option you want to enable beyond strict
strict (and its sub flag strictNullChecks) can really help prevent null and undefined errors in your runtime JavaScript. However, it doesn't defend against invalid array and object access.
by Basarat
Speed Up Jobs with npm ci
npm ci is a special command for installing node packages in a continuous integration environment. In this video I show Github Actions with npm ci in a JavaScript project, after showing npm i for the same code. I also talk about some of the differences of the command, and show some benchmarks as a project scales and adds more packages so you can know how useful it is in the real world.
Test-Driven Development
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a proven prevent bugs and improve the quality of your code - and it's fun! Learn the fundamentals of JavaScript testing in this beginner's tutorial.
by Fireship
VS Code tips: The Git: Auto stash setting
With auto stash enabled, VS Code automatically stashes changes on git pull and restore them once the pull completes.
by Matt Bierner
Useful GitHub repositories
NocoDB
Free & Open Source Airtable alternative. Turns any SQL database into a smart spreadsheet. Supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL server, MariaDB & SQLite.
The Open Source Airtable Alternative
NocoDB is the fastest and easiest way to build databases online
Website • Discord • Community • Twitter • Reddit • Documentation
Join Our Community
Installation
Docker with SQLite
docker run -d --name noco
-v "$(pwd)"/nocodb:/usr/app/data/
-p 8080:8080
nocodb/nocodb:latest
Docker with PG
docker run -d --name noco
-v "$(pwd)"/nocodb:/usr/app/data/
-p 8080:8080
# replace with your pg connection string
-e NC_DB="pg://host.docker.internal:5432?u=root&p=password&d=d1"
# replace with a random secret
-e NC_AUTH_JWT_SECRET="569a1821-0a93-45e8-87ab-eb857f20a010"
nocodb/nocodb:latest
Auto-upstall
Auto-upstall is a single command that sets up NocoDB on a server for production usage. Behind the scenes it auto-generates docker-compose for you.
bash <(curl -sSL http://install.nocodb.com/noco.sh) <(mktemp)
Auto-upstall does the following : 🕊
- 🐳 Automatically installs all pre-requisites like docker, docker-compose
- 🚀 Automatically installs NocoDB with PostgreSQL, Redis, Minio…
utterances
A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. Use GitHub issues for blog comments, wiki pages and more!
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utterances
🔮 A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
utterances 🔮
A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. Use GitHub issues for blog comments, wiki pages and more!
- Open source. 🙌
- No tracking, no ads, always free. 📡🚫
- No lock-in. All data stored in GitHub issues. 🔓
- Styled with Primer, the css toolkit that powers GitHub. 💅
- Dark theme. 🌘
- Lightweight. Vanilla TypeScript. No font downloads, JavaScript frameworks or polyfills for evergreen browsers. 🐦🌲
how it works
When Utterances loads, the GitHub issue search API is used to find the issue associated with the page based on url, pathname or title. If we cannot find an issue that matches the page, no problem, utterances-bot will automatically create an issue the first time someone comments.
To comment, users must authorize the utterances app to post on their behalf using the GitHub OAuth flow. Alternatively, users can comment on the GitHub issue directly.
configuration
sites
…PhotoPrism
Open-Source Personal Photo Management. Say goodbye to solutions that force you to upload your visual memories to the cloud!
photoprism
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photoprism
AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨
PhotoPrism: Browse Your Life in Pictures
PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way You can run it at home, on a private server, or in the cloud.
To get a first impression, you are welcome to play with our public demo. Please be careful not to upload any private, unlawful or offensive pictures.
Feature Overview
Our mission is to provide the most user- and privacy-friendly solution to keep your pictures organized and accessible. That's why PhotoPrism was built from the ground up to run wherever you need it, without compromising freedom, privacy, or functionality:
- Browse all your photos and videos without worrying about RAW conversion, duplicates or video formats
- Easily find specific pictures using powerful search filters
- Recognizes the faces of your family and friends
- Automatic classification…
dribbble shots
Task Management App
Spatu - Shoe Market App
Smart Home Mobile App
by Hira Riaz
My Orders
by Wahab
Dario App
by Ramon
NFT Marketplace Web Mobile
by Adalahreza
Tweets
Picked Pens
CSS morphing
by Amit Sheen
Viewport gradient rotation
Podcasts worth listening
The CSS Podcast - Transitions
In this episode, it's all about transitions. What you can and can't transition its limits, and its superpowers. We'll finish up with ways to trigger transitions and a few tips and tricks.
3 Minutes with Kent - Make your DB schema as restrictive as possible for easier migrations
Smashing Podcast - Why is my React app slow?
We’re talking about React performance. What factors slow our React apps down, and how can we fix it? Drew McLellan talks to expert Ivan Akulov to find out.
Syntax - React + TypeScript
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about using React with Typescript — how to set it up, components, state, props, passing data, custom hooks, and more!
Tools and Resources
Reactive Resume
A free and open source resume builder that’s built to make the mundane tasks of creating, updating and sharing your resume as easy as 1, 2, 3.
Thank you for reading, talk to you next week, and stay safe! 👋
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