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 9
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TinyBase: A Tiny Store With Surprisingly Big Ideas
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Most state libraries give you a bucket to hold data. TinyBase gives you a tiny relational engine with reactive bindings, a query language, persistence, and conflict-free sync — all in a handful of kilobytes.
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Transformers.js: Hugging Face Models Running Right in Your Browser
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Machine learning used to mean spinning up GPU servers and paying per API call. Transformers.js flips that script by running real transformer models on your users' own devices, privately and for free.
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tsParticles: Confetti, Constellations, and Snow Without the Canvas Headache
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Particle animations used to mean wrestling with raw canvas code. tsParticles turns them into a declarative config object you can drop into any React app.
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Twofold: The RSC Framework Built for Weekend Projects
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Not every framework needs to win the enterprise. Twofold scopes itself down to weekend projects on purpose, and that honesty makes it one of the most readable RSC-native frameworks around.
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Unistyles: StyleSheet That Skips the Re-Render
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A styling library that looks like React Native's built-in StyleSheet but quietly moves all the heavy lifting into C++, updating native views without ever asking React to re-render.
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Vavite: Va Vite, Run Vite on the Server
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If Vite spoils your frontend with instant hot reloading, why should your backend settle for a full process restart on every save? Vavite answers that question by making your server a first-class Vite citizen.
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Wasp: The Batteries-Included Full-Stack Framework That Writes Its Own Plumbing
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If you've ever spent the first week of a project gluing React to an Express backend, bolting on auth, and hand-rolling an API layer, Wasp wants to give that week back to you.
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Sugar High: The 1 kB Syntax Highlighter That Lets CSS Pick the Colors
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A syntax highlighter so small it fits in a kilobyte, built by a Next.js core member for his own blog. Here is how it works and why owning your colors in CSS is liberating.
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tinykeys: Big Keyboard Power in About a Kilobyte
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Keyboard shortcuts feel like magic when they work and like a maintenance nightmare when you roll your own. tinykeys gives you the magic without the nightmare, all in roughly a kilobyte.
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Electrobun: Tiny TypeScript Desktop Apps Without the Chromium Tax
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If Electron feels heavy and Tauri's Rust requirement feels like a detour, Electrobun offers a third path: tiny desktop bundles that stay entirely in TypeScript.