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Welcome to Day 10 of “Frontend Rewind 2023”!
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Article
Introducing the popover API
This article by Una Kravets introduces the popover API, a new set of declarative HTML APIs in browsers, simplifying the process of building popovers by handling complexities such as focus management, open/close states, and accessibility.
Tutorial
Painting with Math: A Gentle Study of Raymarching
Maxime Heckel explains the basics of Raymarching, its use of signed distance fields, and how to implement it in a Three.js/React Three Fiber environment, ultimately creating complex scenes with lighting, shadows, and fractals.
Website Design: Rogue Studio
UI Interaction & Animation: Content creation studio company site
Tool
Detect Scroll
Jordan Egstad open-sourced a performant scroll library he uses across all of his websites.
Freebie
Theme Toggles
This useful collection provides a selection of dark and light theme toggles that use SVGs and CSS transitions, and includes React support.
Video: Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge
Thanks for being part of our day, have a cozy Sunday—see you again tomorrow! 👋🎄
