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No images? Click here   SitePoint Weekly #24 🍓 The freshest resources for web designers and developers.       Pointed Advice 🦾 SitePoint's top articles this week   Learn Remotion: Create Animated Video with HTML, CSS & React Chris Laughlin You don't need fancy video-editing software to create videos containing text, animations, colors, and shapes. Learn how to do it in React with Remotion!   What Is Vitejs? An Overview of the New Front-end Build Tool Tim Severien Need a simpler way to set up a front-end dev environment? With Vite, you can be up and running with Vue, React, and even vanilla JS in just a few clicks.   Build a Secure Desktop App with Electron Forge and React Kilian Valkhof Creating a cross-platform desktop app is easy thanks to Electron. Learn how to create a secure desktop app using React, Electron, and Electron Forge.   The 5 Most Popular Front-end Frameworks Compared James Hibbard Learn about the features, the pros and the cons of the five most popular JavaScript front-end frameworks, and how to choose the one that's right for you.   Quick Tip: How to Loop Through a JSON Response in JavaScript James Hibbard Learn about the features, the pros and the cons of the five most popular JavaScript front-end frameworks, and how to choose the one that's right for you.   A Side-by-Side Comparison of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure Lucero del Alba Need a cloud service but not sure where to start? Here's a broad overview of what's on offer, from big players to small, and how to choose the right one.   How to Use ngrok to Share a Local Development Site Craig Buckler Need to share your localhost dev server? Learn how to use ngrok to easily create a secure tunnel to your local machine so that others can view your work.   Sponsored How to Integrate Everything and Connect to Anything Is data integration causing delays for your apps? Join us to see how to build, accelerate, and complete the integrations needed for the most complex, feature-rich applications. Save your spot.   The Rundown 💾 News and guides from the rest of the web Firefox, Edge, Safari, and other browsers won’t use Google’s new FLoC ad tech. Here’s how you can opt your website out of the FLoC Network. Ad management firms are scooping up sites ahead of the cookie changes, with smaller sites reporting outreach from firms that previously catered to a select clientele. Google has postponed the core update rollout that makes Core Web Vitals a search algorithm ranking factor. That sound you just heard was thousands of development leads breathing a sigh of relief. Node.js 16 is available now, including an update of the V8 JavaScript engine to 9.0, Apple M1 binaries, and more. Intrinsic typography is the future of styling text on the web, says Scott Kellum on CSS-Tricks. Write better git commits with Gitmoji. Apple has introduced AirTags, which expand the Find My app’s capability for location tracking to any item. If you’re within Bluetooth range, you can trigger a sound. If it gets separated from you, the Find My network of Apple users around the world will be able to update its last known location without the need for GPS. Perhaps the most surprising feature: a replaceable battery. In this Tiny Container Challenge, Sid Palas starts with a 943MB Node.js HTTP server Docker image… and winds up with a 6.34KB Assembly image. Practical? Perhaps not – but a good reminder that there’s always more you can do to keep images lean. The Linux kernel project has banned the University of Minnesota from contributing after a professor was caught sending buggy patches in the name of research. Learn how to Dockerize a Node.js application. Catching up with what has been sysadmin common knowledge for years, Microsoft now says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete”. Sara Soueidan shows you how to get creative with your horizontal rules. Europe eyes strict rules for artificial intelligence. Plugins are a big part of what makes UI/UX design tools great. If you’re a Sketch user, here’s a handy list of useful plugins and where to find them. Wondering whether you should spring for a condenser before starting your podcast? Yep. High quality audio makes you sound smarter.     Learn to Code with JavaScript > OUR LATEST BOOK RELEASE Learn the core programming concepts that underlie every problem you solve and project you build in your future as a coder. Pick up JavaScript as a bonus. ➤ Read a free preview   Versioning 🔬 Tools and resources worth checking out Ripcord is an alpha desktop chat client for Slack and Discord that eschews web technologies in favor of a lean, mean, performance- and power-preserving machine. Backprop is a serverless machine learning API for the everyday developer. Twitter thread makers like Typefully are becoming popular composition tools. Prefer to compose where your thinking happens? Mercury is a Chrome extension for tweeting from within Roam Research. If you import Roam’s Markdown export into Obsidian, you’ll lose block references. Here’s a tool for converting the JSON export to Markdown and making all that deep linking available in Obsidian. SaaS Pages is a gallery of great SaaS landing pages for your inspiration. And Landing Page Checklist puts over 100 tools for building landing pages at your fingertips. Snippyly is a privacy-focused screen capture & collaboration tool, inspired by Google’s internal tool for doing the same and built by a couple of former employees who missed it. Napkin offers a next-gen, production-ready backend development tool in your browser. Continuing a major trend of 2020 and 2021, Accessdock is a tool that allows you to collect payment for access to Discord.     Connect with the Community We'll see you in the next edition — in the meantime, connect with us for a chat through our various communities or on social media: SitePoint forums Our Discord server On the blog Or on Twitter Thanks for reading, and for being part of the SitePoint community! 👋   Joel Falconer Managing Editor   SitePoint Level 1, 110 Johnston St Fitzroy VIC 3065 Australia You're receiving this email because you signed up to receive news from SitePoint. Smart choice!   Share    Tweet    Share    Forward  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe