I have selected some news from the web dev world to share.
💎 Mistral Forge💜 Astro 6.0⚡ News in ViteLand👀 Details that make interfaces feel better
Have a great week.
Mistral Forge is a system by Mistral to trained their open-source model on proprietary entreprise knowledge.
I migrated my blog from eleventy to Astro some weeks ago and now Astro 6 is out ! I love it. New compiler with Rust, Fonts API, Content Security Policy API, Improved support for Cloudflare.
- Oxfmt Beta: Full Prettier Compatibility
- Vite 8, plugin registry
- Vitest, filter for slow UI’s tests.
- Rolldown, 9.6% faster, experimentable nodejs executable.
- Oxc : 12 new rules type aware linting, ~4% ~6% faster.
- Text wrapping.
- Concentric border radius tricks
- Animate icons contextually with opacity, scale and blur.
- Use make text crispy with font smoothing
- Use tabular numbers for animating number
- Make your animations interruptible
- Split and stagger entering elements, never animate all element at the same times
- Make exit animation more subtle, to make it more smooth for the eye
- Align optically, not geometrically
Web tools and Library
Effortless media optimizer for the web. Free, open-source CLI that optimizes and converts images and videos using format-specific compression built on ImageMagick and FFmpeg.
Production ready shaders & effects for the web. No dependencies. Just drop in.
5KB WebGL globe lib. Use any DOM element as bindable markers.CSS transitions, animations, filters, interactivity, all just work. High perf, zero deps, ~5KB.