2023/13

GitHub announces Copilot X, AI seems to be more powerful every day but still, this digest is created by humans, not by AI.

💎 Highlight of the Week

Another intense week behind us with a ton of interesting articles written, tips shared and tools gaining popularity.

The world of AI tools continues to evolve at breakneck speed, and this week, the highlight is undoubtedly the launch of GitHub Copilot X, the AI-powered developer experience.

GitHub Copilot X, image from The GitHub Blog

Announced features include:

• A ChatGPT-like experience in your editor with GitHub Copilot Chat

• Copilot for Pull Requests with Gentest 🤯

• GitHub Copilot for Docs

• Copilot for CLI

Pretty exciting stuff. Maybe this will finally take our jobs? 🤔

📎 Thought-Provoking Bits

• GitHub Copilot CLI: FirstLook - follow up on Copilot X announcement

• Modularizing React Applications with Established UI Patterns - great article about utlizing established UI patterns in React applications

• Rethinking React best practices - deep dive into the evolution of React from client-side view library to application architecture

• Signals vs. Observables, what’s all the fuss about? - coming back to the discussion about signals

• Remix without Limits - Vercel - Vercel announces advanced Remix integration

• The End of Front-End Development - are we all doomed? ☠️

• Infra I’m Building On In 2023 - 2023 Stack’s infra by Theo

• A good unit test

• Add i18n features - i18n in Astro

• Migrating a TypeScript app from Node.js to Bun - LogRocket Blog

• T3 Stack Tutorial - FROM 0 TO PROD FOR $0 (Next.js, tRPC, TypeScript, Tailwind, Prisma & More)

🧵 Twitter dramas & more

• What’s new in Playwright

Debbie O'Brien 🎭 @debs_obrien

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Don't believe me just WATCH 👀🤩 Check out release video for new UI mode in @playwrightweb. Happy testing youtu.be/jF0yA-JLQW0

• React source code AMA with Dan Abramov

дэн @dan_abramov

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ask me any question about the react source code (and i will try my best to answer it)

• Rewriting a full-stack app with React Server Components example

Ben Holmes @BHolmesDev

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Wondering how you'd rewrite a full-stack app with React Server Components? Here's a simple before and after based on NextJS. TL;DR: fewer files, simpler code 🙌

• A thread about “semantic” search

cohere @CohereAI

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Semantic search is a very effective way to search documents with a query. But what exactly does the word “semantic” mean here? Probably the best way to understand semantic search is to understand what is *not* semantic search. Let’s take a look. (Thread)

📦 Useful Whatchamacallits

• Stylemapper - flexible utility to create styled and type-safe React components

• Observable Plot - free, open-source JavaScript library to help you quickly visualize tabular data

• FormKit - the open-source form framework for Vue

• Red Otter - self-contained WebGL flexbox engine

• Arktype - TypeScript’s 1:1 validator, optimized from editor to runtime

• Fauxpilot - an open-source GitHub Copilot server

🤠 Weekly meme

“Saw a dude writing code in a coffee shop, no Copilot, no ChatGPT, just straight raw dogging VSCode” tweet by @KennethCassel