The Gray Cat
The Gray Cat is a chubby British Shorthair with a mysterious charm, blending a love for coding with a flair for writing. Passionate about React and always on the hunt for new libraries to explore, this curious feline brings a creative twist to web development. When not immersed in code, The Gray Cat enjoys long naps and indulging in tuna snacks, perfectly balancing work and leisure.
On this blog, The Gray Cat shares adventures through the world of web development, offering insights and stories that inspire. Whether you're into coding, enjoy a good read, or simply love cats, there's something here for everyone to enjoy.
The latest articles by The Gray Cat – Page 4
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SSGOI: Give Your Web Pages the Transitions a Native App Would Brag About
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Native apps glide between screens. Most websites just blink one page out and the next page in. SSGOI closes that gap with one wrapper and a handful of transition presets.
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STRICH: Production-Grade Barcode Scanning Without Leaving the Browser
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Scanning barcodes in a web app sounds easy until you try it in a dim warehouse on a three-year-old Android phone. STRICH is the commercial SDK built for exactly that moment.
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SVGInject: Teaching Your Images to Speak CSS
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An icon trapped inside an img tag is a sealed envelope: you can see it, but you cannot touch the words inside. SVGInject opens the envelope at runtime so CSS can read every line.
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react-inlinesvg: Give Your SVGs CSS Superpowers
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If you have ever tried to recolor an SVG loaded through an img tag and hit a wall, this little component is the answer you have been looking for.
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Tabulator: Interactive Data Grids Without the Dependency Tax
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A batteries-included, framework-agnostic data grid that renders sortable, filterable, editable tables for you instead of making you assemble the markup yourself.
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React MD Editor: The Textarea That Thinks It's an Editor
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Not every markdown editor needs to drag a full code-editor engine into your bundle. Sometimes a clever textarea and a live preview pane are exactly enough.
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relative-time-element: The HTML Tag That Says 5 Minutes Ago
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Every timestamp on GitHub.com that whispers 'opened 3 days ago' is powered by one small custom element. Here is how to use it in your own apps.
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True Sheet: The Bottom Sheet That Lets the OS Do the Work
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If you have ever fought a JavaScript bottom sheet to make it feel native, True Sheet takes a different route: it hands the job straight to the operating system.
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Uniwind: Tailwind for React Native Without the Runtime Tax
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If you love writing Tailwind classes but hate paying for them at runtime, Uniwind is worth a look. It compiles your utility classes ahead of time and hands React Native plain style objects.
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visx: Airbnb's Low-Level Lego Bricks for React Charts
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Charting libraries are fast until your designer hands you something they cannot draw. visx is Airbnb's answer: give you the primitives, let D3 do the math, and let React own the DOM.