Web Tools #529 - CSS Survey, JS Utils, ChatGPT, JSON/DB

In case you missed it back in June/July, the folks at Devographics ran the annual State of CSS survey, which is typically run by Sacha Greif. Sacha was part of it again, but this seems to be the first year that it was credited to an organization (Sacha has been running it since it started in 2019).

As always, the survey results are well-designed – though it does take some getting used to if you've never tried to analyze the data in this format. You can check out the results for yourself but I thought I'd post some of my own finds from the numbers here:

• 19.6% of respondents said they have used CSS subgrid, up from 10.2% last year.
• 35.5% of developers have used Logical Properties in their CSS.
• 26.7% have used Container Queries, up from 12.5% last year.
• 11.9% have used a brand new feature called Anchor Positioning, something that wasn't asked on any previous surveys.
• 20.7% have used Conic Gradients, up from 9.5% in 2021.
• 24.3% have used the accent-color property, up from 7.2% in 2021.
• 37.8% have used the prefers-reduced-motion media feature.
• A whopping 93% of developers have used CSS Custom Properties (variables), compared to 59.6% in the first year of the survey.
• The :has selector was the most adopted feature, having the highest year-over-year "have used" progression.

Now on to this week's tools!
 

JavaScript Utilities

Valibot
An open-source, developer-friendly schema library with a small bundle size, to validate any TypeScript type, and includes validation helpers and 100% test coverage.

delay
A utility that lets you delay a promise a specified amount of time.

google-spreadsheet
A Google Sheets API wrapper for JavaScript/Typescript, featuring multiple auth options, cell and row-based APIs, worksheet management, and more.

Uploadcare Image CDN
Uploadcare Image CDN comes with an intuitive URL API that provides multiple chainable operations to optimize an image on the fly right before it's delivered to your users.     SPONSORED 

openGraphScraper
A simple node module (with TypeScript declarations) for scraping Open Graph and Twitter/X Card info from a website.

node-emoji
Simple emoji support for Node.js projects, powered by emojilib (and emoji keyword library) and skin-tone (for changing the skin tone of an emoji).

ngraph.path
A fast path finding library for arbitrary graphs. Includes a neat demo that allows you to try it on any of 6 city maps.

ChatGPT and AI Tools

AiSites.me
A search engine to find AI tools and websites that's usable via keyword and 30+ categories for filtering.

E2B
A set of tools, APIs that allow you to use AI agents to run various commands and actions in sandboxed cloud environments.

Sense AI
Automatic hub for all your work resources is now free for individual users.   SPONSORED 

GodMode
A dedicated chat browser that helps you quickly access the full web apps of ChatGPT, Claude 2, Perplexity, Bing and more with a single keyboard shortcut.

Firefly
A generative AI-powered content creation tool from Adobe that lets you experiment, imagine, and create an infinite range of images.

JSON and Database Tools

SQLedge
A Go-based app that uses Postgres logical replication to stream the changes in a source Postgres database to a SQLite database that can run on the edge.

GraphQL Mobius
A utility to parse GraphQL schema to TypeScript to create an end-to-end type-safe GraphQL client in TypeScript.

Doculite
A TypeScript utility that lets you use SQLite like Firebase Firestore, with support for listeners on documents, collections, and basic queries.

Sense AI
Automatic hub for all your work resources is now free for individual users.   SPONSORED 

camaro
A utility to transform XML to JSON, using Node.js bindings to a fast, native XML parser called pugixml.

MariaDB Node.js connector
A non-blocking MariaDB and MySQL client for Node.js, to connect applications developed on Node.js to MariaDB and MySQL databases.

destr
A faster, type-safe, secure, and convenient alternative to JSON.parse().

Commercial Apps and Classifieds

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