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Welcome to the 6th issue of the Kolade Dev Digest newsletter.
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Last week was another full time job-focused week, but I was able to finish up my article on Day.js. The article is now ready to be published, and I’ll share it with you when it’s finally published on the OpenReplay blog.
I’m still working on an article on how you can build a callout component for your Astro blog or documentation site too. I will make it available on freeCodeCamp. So stay tuned.
Latest Posts From My Blog
Yesterday, I published an article on how to add a layout to your Next.js website.
Here are other articles I recently published:
And here are my two most popular articles:
Tech How to Articles of the Week
Here are some inspiring and helpful tech articles I found on the internet this past week:
A Better Guide to Forms in React by Andrew Jones. 10-minute read.
Making Sense of React Server Components by Josh Comeau. 22-minute read.
How to Use Variables and Data Types in JavaScript – Explained With Code Examples by Austin Asoluka via freeCodeCamp
YouTube Videos of the Week
Anchor Elements Together with 4 Lines of CSS. A few seconds short by Ania Kubow
The Intermediate Developer Trap. 18 minutes video by Laracasts.
Moving Features to CSS and HTML. 33 minutes video by Killian Valkhof via JS Conf
How to Optimize your LinkedIn Profile to Get Recruiters in Your DM 13 minutes video by Esther
How to Get Ahead of 99% Programmers. 3 minutes video by Sahil and Sara.
Tech Tool of the Week
MDX is a superset of Markdown that lets you use JSX and frontend frameworks components right inside your Markdown files (the file has to have the .mdx extension).
Many think MDX is only available for React, but that’s not true. MDX is available for:
Vue as mdx/vue
Svelte as MDsveX
Solid.js as solid-jsx
Astro as astrojs/mdx