The Collective #885

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Blissful Thursday! We’ve received some good reads and inspo so that you can kickstart the tip of your week.

First up, Umar Hansa explores the View Transitions API, a game-changer for single-page apps—suppose buttery easy animations with out dragging in a framework. Over in CSS land, Chrome 131 is giving <particulars> and <abstract> some love with new styling powers, making disclosure widgets far more versatile.

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🌐 View Transitions API: Single Web page Apps And not using a Framework

Umar Hansa’s article explores the View Transitions API, showcasing the way it enhances net efficiency and consumer expertise by enabling easy animations between web page views with out requiring heavy JavaScript frameworks.

Bramus’s article explains how Chrome 131 introduces enhanced styling choices for <particulars> and <abstract> parts, together with assist for the show property and the brand new ::details-content pseudo-element, enabling extra versatile layouts and animations for disclosure widgets.

Julia Evans explains the best way to import JavaScript libraries in frontend tasks with out utilizing a construct system, detailing strategies for dealing with “traditional” JS recordsdata, ES Modules, and CommonJS modules, together with sensible instruments and ideas for every strategy.

Roma Komarov explores the long-standing inconsistency in how browsers deal with transitions of inherited CSS properties, highlighting variations between Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, and advocating for revisiting the specification to make sure higher interoperability.

Stanko Tadić introduces the @stanko/dual-range-input, a light-weight library that makes use of native HTML vary inputs to create accessible and customizable dual-range sliders with minimal JavaScript and CSS.

Kilian Valkhof introduces the brand new CSS emblem, celebrates its alignment with different trendy net tech logos, and shares a top level view model he designed to be used in instruments like Polypane, inviting suggestions and contributions to incorporate it within the Tabler icons set.

Anderson Mancini showcases his WebXR water experiment constructed with Three.js, optimized for Meta Quest 3, and plans to develop machine compatibility, enhance efficiency, and share a supply code assessment quickly.

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(From our weblog) A glance behind the ChainGPT Labs, ChainGPT’s new enterprise capital and incubator for the following technology of web3 startups. Designed by Sigma Software program Design workforce, and compiled into an insight-packed case research by Sigma’s designer, Ilya Kostin.

(From our weblog) A easy idea of animating one component throughout totally different waypoints on scroll utilizing GSAP Flip and ScrollTrigger.

(From our weblog) An in-depth tutorial on the best way to create a fascinating animation the place gadgets transfer from the product gallery to the buying cart.

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