Weekly Digest 19/21
Welcome to my Weekly Digest #19 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
Frustrating Design Patterns That Need Fixing: Birthday Picker
In this new series of articles on UX, we take a closer look at some frustrating design patterns and explore better alternatives, along with plenty of examples to keep in mind when building or designing one.
Frustrating Design Patterns That Need Fixing: Birthday Picker — Smashing Magazine
JavaScript testing: 9 best practices to learn
We zoom in on nine best practices for JavaScript testing that can help you write better tests and help your team to better understand them.
JavaScript testing: 9 best practices to learn — LogRocket Blog
Using Forms in React
Learn how to build forms with React, the difference between controlled and uncontrolled inputs, and which to use.
How we use Web Components at GitHub
GitHub has long been a proponent of Web Components. Here’s how we use them.
How we use Web Components at GitHub | The GitHub Blog
Some great videos I watched this week
Typescript for React Components
Typescript is quickly becoming the industry standard for React development. Take your Typescript skills from beginner to masters level by learning everything you need to know about how to write components in React the right way.
Advanced CSS Border-Radius Tutorial
How to create complex shape with only CSS border-radius and understand how to separately control horizontal and vertical border-radius.
Thinking on ways to solve a Media Scroller
In today’s GUI challenge, Adam Argyle shares thinking on ways to create inline scrolling experiences for the web that are minimal, responsive, accessible and work across browsers and platforms (like TVs!).
Amazon’s, Etsy’s and Ebay’s Checkout UI
Here are five key UI elements that appear on leading ecommerce companies’ checkout screens. The UI comparison also has lead to a freebie Figma Checkout template.
Yet Another 5 Must Know CSS Tricks That Almost Nobody Knows
CSS is a vast language with tons of features and it is impossible to know them all. In this video I will be covering another 5 features in CSS that nobody knows but are incredibly useful.
Testing React Components
Here, Amy Dutton will show you how to write tests for a React component using Jest and the React Testing Library.
Mastering React Hooks with Typescript
Let’s dive DEEP again into Typescript but this time to look at React Hooks.
Useful GitHub repositories
Folio
A customizable test framework to build your own test frameworks.
zx
A tool for writing better scripts
Remote Redux DevTools
Use Redux DevTools remotely for React Native, hybrid, desktop and server side Redux apps.
dribbble shots
Localy — Roadmap
Govoroon App
IoT App for growing plants
Doctor appointment
Allhand — Mobile App
Tweets
Podcasts worth listening
Syntax FM — Technical Debt
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about technical debt — what it is, why does it occur, and some techniques for reducing and avoiding it.
The CSS Podcast — Snap Points
In this episode, Una and Adam are guiding scroll areas into their peaceful resting places, maintaining alignment, keeping visual harmony, and improving the overall experience with the content.
Smashing Podcast — What is The Future of CSS?
We’re starting our new season with a look the future of CSS. What new specs will be landing in browsers soon? Drew McLellan talks to expert Miriam Suzanne to find out.
3 Minutes with Kent — Cypress Driven Development
Software Engineering Daily — Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence concerned with giving computers the ability to understand text and spoken words. “Understanding” includes intent, sentiment, and what’s important in the message.
Thank you for reading, talk to you next week, and stay safe! 👋
