Weekly Digest 41/2021

3 min readOct 17, 2021

Welcome to my Weekly Digest #41 of this year.

This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, and designs I consumed during this week.

Interesting articles to read

Storybook on-demand architecture

3x smaller builds & faster load times for built Storybooks

Storybook on-demand architecture

As the number of stories grows, it gets trickier to load them all in a performant way. That ends up bogging down the…

storybook.js.org

Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges

Writing CSS has probably never been more fun and exciting than it is today. In this post, we’ll take a look at common problems and use cases we all have to face in our work and how to solve them with modern CSS.

Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges - Smashing Magazine

Writing CSS has probably never been more fun and exciting than it is today. In this post we'll take a look at common…

www.smashingmagazine.com

Some great videos I watched this week

Dart in 100 Seconds

Dart is high-productivity statically-typed programming language capable of targeting multiple platforms. It’s used by Flutter to produce fast client apps with an awesome developer experience.

by Fireship

Chrome 95 — What’s New in DevTools

New CSS length authoring tools, hide issues in the Issues tab, improved the display of properties, and more.

by Google Chrome Developers

Vector Dot Product

This video covers the dot product and scalar projection with p5.js and vectors, concepts that Daniel will need for finding the distance between a point and a line which will lead to the path following steering behavior in the next video!

by Daniel Shiffman

Thinking on ways to solve multi-select

In today’s GUI challenge I share my thinking on a way to enable users to multi-select. To demonstrate multi-select I’ve prepared a filterable grid that accepts input from both a -select multiple- and a set of -fieldset- elements. Two multi-select methods yep, each tailored for their use case.

by Adam Argyle

Using ES Modules on CodePen

import and export! They seem like such simple things, but having them in the native language of JavaScript is very powerful. CodePen tries to be helpful with them, and in conjunction with services like Skypack, there is an awful lot you can do.

by CodePen