Hello readers!

Welcome to 2024! While you’re no doubt busy thinking up your new year’s resolutions, we’re here to keep you inspired with our regular traditions too…

So, just as we do every month, we’ve pulled together our last selection of interesting articles from the world of web tech in 2023, in case you missed them while enjoying all that festive fun 🙂 

Learn how to use CSS nesting, get insights into the new features of React Native 0.73, find out the reasons behind JavaScript’s weirdest features, and much more.

Happy reading, and Happy New Year!

CSS nesting support

Did you know that modern browsers now support native CSS nesting? If not, this article is a must-read for you. Learn how it works and how you can benefit.

Understanding JavaScript’s “weird” features

JavaScript contains a lot of concepts, such as type coercion or floating point numbers, which seem to make no sense at all at first glance. But most of these quirks do actually have a logical reason behind them. Check out this article to find out and understand them all!

An important hidden TypeScript improvement

With the release of TypeScript 5.3, an important improvement related to read-only arrays was introduced… but for some reason they didn’t mention it in their release notes! Check out this article from Matt Pocock, who explains this useful improvement and how to use it. 

What’s new in React Native 0.73

The React Native team packed their latest release with improvements, such as Android 14 support, multiple debugging improvements for the Hermes engine, and a new bridgeless mode for apps using the new architecture. Have a read to find out more.  

Welcome Reactotron 3.0

Reactotron is a desktop app used for inspecting and debugging React Native applications. It’s been a long wait, but a new version has finally landed and it brings significant improvement – the most notable being console log capturing, so you can forget about the special logging methods. Find out more, and about all its other improvements, in this blog post.