Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #47

weeklyfoo #47 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 34 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!

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I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It: About someone who learned the game the hard way. / startups / 26 min read

Social media for startup founders: A practical guide to building an online presence / marketing / 25 min read
Leaving Neovim for Zed: A journey through text editors and how I landed on Zed after years of Neovim / ide / 14 min read
Effective Changelogs: Like your versioning scheme, your changelog is a vital and oft-overlooked method of communication to your users. Unfortunately, it's easy to write a changelog, but hard to write a great one. / engoineering / 8 min read
An underrated software engineering interview question: Have you ever heard of bug squash interviews? If not, then read the article! / hiring, career / 7 min read
Toasts are Bad UX: The core problem is that toasts always show up far away from the user's attention. / ux / 3 min read
Enhancing TypeScript: Implementing Robust Error Handling with Result and Option / typescript / 19 min read
Docusaurus 3.5: Next minor release of Docusaurus / docs / 6 min read
Astro 4.14: Next minor release of Astro / astro / 8 min read
The HONC stack: HONC is an modular collection of choice technologies for building lightweight, type-safe, edge-enabled data apis that scale seamlessly to their demand. / honc, hono, drizzle, neon, cloudflare / 4 min read
Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps): DOM manipulation ftw! / dom, googletranslate / 21 min read

Vanilla JSX: A case for vanilla JSX / jsx
Dev Encyclopedia: Find out what that Sr. Developer is talking about / knowledge
Stepperize: A library for creating step-by-step workflows in your apps / stepper, ui
Pragtical: The practical and pragmatic code editor. / editor
LogTape: Simple logging library with zero dependencies for Deno, Node.js, Bun, browsers, and edge functions / logger
Isocons: Carefully crafted isometric icons / icons
Zen Browser: Beautifully designed, privacy-focused, and packed with features. We care about your experience, not your data. / browsers
Legend Motion: Legend Motion is a declarative animations library for React Native, to make it easy to transition between styles without needing to manage animations. / animations
Milkdown: Plugin driven WYSIWYG markdown editor framework. / markdown
Tagger: Zero Dependency, Vanilla JavaScript Tag Editor / tags
tinykeys: A tiny (~650 B) & modern library for keybindings. / keybindings
heic-to: Convert HEIC/HEIF images to JPEG, PNG in browser / images
little-date: A friendly formatter to make date ranges small & sweet / formatter, date
instant: The realtime client-side database / databases
Quarkdown: Markdown with superpowers. / markdown
Isaiah: Self-hostable clone of lazydocker for the web. Manage your Docker fleet with ease / docker
Icons for AI: Free 16x16 icons made for AI projects! / icons
TruffleHog: Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials / security

How to design hand icons: The most difficult icons, hands down / hands / 6 min read

Implementing SAML SSO in Node.js with Microsoft Entra ID: SAML is one of the commonly used standards for implementing SSO in enterprise environments. Even though OIDC is rapidly gaining traction, not everyone supports it, or there are compliance requirements that mandate SAML. / saml, nodejs / 5 min read
Wasp - The JavaScript Answer to Django for Web Development: Building a full stack application just got a lot easier / wasp / 23 min read
useStateObject: A Simple, Convenient API Around useState / react, state / 3 min read
Making a REST API typesafe with React Query and Zod: Especially zod helps you to keep your objects in the right shape. / zod, react / 6 min read

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