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Syntax Snack Pack: The Tailwind Defense & TanStack's Router Magic

Published 3 months agoΒ β€’Β 3 min read

A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers

Issue #47:

  • One router to rule them all? TanStack might just be that good
  • A highly compelling case for Tailwind
  • The Remix team just forked Preact to build something completely new - but what are they actually cooking?
  • Bonus: If the moon were only 1 pixel, how mind-bendingly huge would the solar system actually be?
  • The TWICE SOLD OUT tee is restocked (Webmaster)

DENVER!

Thank you to everyone who came out to hang with us, Mux, Vercel & Sentry! We had a great time and are always so dang delighted to connect with our community.
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Where to next?

​Wake up, Remix!

FROM CJ

The team behind Remix is forking preact and creating a new full stack framework from the ground up

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​The Beauty of TanStack Router​

HAND PLUCKED by cj

The author outlines some of the features of TanStack Router that really make it stand out from the rest

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​Announcing Rolldown-Vite ​

ANOTHER ONE FROM CJ!

rolldown-vite (a native port of rollup) has reached feature parity with vite and is a drop in replacement with build time reductions up to 16x

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​Tailwind is the worst form of CSS, except for all the others​

AT THIS POINT, THIS IS CJ'S NEWSLETTER

The author makes a good case for tailwind by comparing it to all the other ways of doing CSS

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just for fun:

​If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel ​

fun PROVIDED by cj

An accurate map of the solar system sized as if the moon were 1 pixel

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All Hail The Algorithm

Some good stuffβ„’ we posted this week

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​If Statements in CSS?​

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