Thursday, 1 February, 2024 UTC
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Summary
Hey, there friend!
It's Daniel here, the guy who runs the js-craft.io website. I hope your past 2 weeks were great! Mine were full, and also fun, as I've been grinding out to finish the React book. Let's gooo!
In this edition of the newsletter:
- 📘 The Js-Craft guide to React book updates
- 🍿 Coding screencasts videos
- 📰 New articles on Js-Craft
- 🌎 Cool links from around the web
- 🏝 Some non-coding things
The launch day of the Js-Craft guide to React is getting closer and closer. I am super excited about it, as a lot of hard work has been put into this book. It seems that writing a book is much more time-consuming than I'd imagined.
I've decided to name the book The Js-Craft Guide to React.
So far, there are over 170 pages, 15 chapters plus a dozen of cool React examples. The launch of the book will be the next week!
Meanwhile, you can still read a sample chapter, take a look at this video of one of the examples, or join the presale.
🍿 New coding screencasts videos
I've found some screencasts I've made last year but were not yet published:
- Craft a Responsive CSS Grid with just 3 properties
- Using Console Trace for JavaScript Debugging
Don't forget you can also subscribe to the YouTube channel.
📰 New articles on Js-Craft
In the past two weeks, I've written four new articles including an example about how to invert the colors of a picture with Javascript and the Canvas element.
Here are all the new articles:
Here are all the new articles:
- Crafting small projects and throwing them away
- React – example of useRef() with array
- JavaScript digit pincode field with paste support
- JavaScript – invert the colors of a picture on a canvas
A few more weeks have passed and some links to some cool stuff have started to pile up in my bookmarks. So, let's see:
- The world's smallest PNG
- CodePen with an Interactive Christmas Tree
- Let’s learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one
- Three modern CSS properties your website must have
- Vue.js and GraphQl – the documentaries link 1 and link 2
Given that it's still freezing cold outside I've been enjoying a good book: Diamond Doris. It's the true story of Doris Payne, one of the world's most notorious jewel thieves. A fun and easy-to-read book. There is also a movie/documentary made from this book.
Just as a reference to how cold it is this is how a nearby lake looks like. Completely frozen 🥶.
Well, that's all folks! Be smart, be kind, and keep coding! See you next week at the book launch of The Js-Craft Guide to React.