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 6
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Fate: Relay's Best Ideas, Minus the GraphQL Tax
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What if you could have Relay's elegant co-located data requirements and normalized cache, but over your existing tRPC backend, with no GraphQL in sight? That is the bet Fate is making.
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Formisch: One Schema to Rule Your Forms
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Most form libraries treat schema validation as an add-on you bolt in later. Formisch flips that around: the schema is the form.
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Geometric.js: 2D Geometry Without the Class Ceremony
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Sometimes you just need the area of a polygon, the centroid of a shape, or to know whether a click landed inside a region — without dragging in a GIS framework or learning a new object model. Geometric.js answers all of that with plain arrays and plain functions.
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Hocuspocus: The Backend Half of Real-Time Collaboration
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Yjs solves conflict-free editing on the client. Hocuspocus is the server that actually ferries those edits between everyone and keeps them safe. Here is how to stand one up.
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Inertia.js for React: The SPA That Forgot to Build an API
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Building a single-page app usually means building two apps: a backend API and a frontend that consumes it. Inertia.js quietly deletes one of them.
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Micromodal.js: Tiny, Accessible Modals Without the Bloat
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Modals look simple until you try to make one that screen readers and keyboard users can actually use. Micromodal.js quietly handles that part for you.
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React Native Morph Card: The App Store Expand Trick, Done Natively
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A tiny, focused native module that nails one delightful interaction: the card that grows into a fullscreen detail view and gracefully shrinks back.
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Node-RED: Wiring the Internet of Things with Drag-and-Drop Flows
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A tour of Node-RED, the OpenJS Foundation's visual wiring tool for event-driven applications, from your first flow to the Function node and the redesigned 5.0 editor.
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React Notion X: Turn Notion Into a Lightning-Fast Website
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Notion is a wonderful place to write, but a sluggish place to publish. React Notion X bridges that gap, letting you keep writing in Notion while shipping a site that loads in a blink.
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Obs.js: Meet Your Users Where They Actually Are
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Web performance happens somewhere between you and your user. Obs.js hands you the signals to deliver the right experience to the right person under the right conditions, right now.