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2024年1月9日，開源日報第1069期：
今日推薦開源項目：《shadcn-ui》
今日推薦英文原文：《Future-proof Your Components With This Game Changing React Pattern》

開源項目

今日推薦開源項目：《shadcn-ui》傳送門：項目鏈接

推薦理由：star數飆升最快的React組件庫shadcn-ui，非常簡約精美的組件，無障礙，可定製至項目中
查看文檔： http://ui.shadcn.com/docs

英文原文

今日推薦英文原文：A Journey into Wasm

推薦理由：2024年Web開發趨勢預測：Fediverse發展迅速，更多AI開發工具，JavaScript使用減少，Fediverse成為主流，引入新的在線社交方式。AI開發工具將增加，涵蓋生成性UI工具和多模態AI。希望減少JavaScript複雜性，推動更簡化的Web開發

詳見原文

Web Dev 2024: Fediverse Ramps Up, More AI, Less JavaScript

Forecasting web development trends in 2024, we see an increase in fediverse dev, more AI dev tool usage, multimodal AI and less JavaScript.

The Fediverse Scales Up — RSS Readers 2.0?

It was a wild end of the year for the fediverse, which up till recently had been a loose collection of relatively small federated websites and applications built on the W3C ActivityPub specification. But it』s fast becoming a large and formidable federation. When Meta』s Threads app began connecting to the fediverse at the start of December, the scale of the fediverse suddenly went up a notch or two. Soon after, the social media app Flipboard also announced it will federate. More apps are expected to join this year, so it』s highly likely that 2024 will be the year the fediverse goes mainstream.

So what will happen over the coming months as more people use the fediverse? It』s hard to predict, but one thing many of us are looking for is a better way to interconnect with our online friends. ActivityPub is often referred to as 「two-way RSS,」 because it allows us to interoperate across different social networks. Whereas RSS is a protocol that enables publishers to distribute their content, ActivityPub is for both publishers and consumers of content. As the spec puts it, 「It provides a client-to-server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server-to-server API for delivering notifications and content.」 Note that the 「activities」 can be any kind of digital information — text, images, video, audio and whatever comes next.

One thing I』d love to see in the fediverse era is a renaissance in RSS readers, except this time for multiple types of content. I commented about that on Mastodon recently and got some intriguing responses. Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire, wrote a post explaining that while his product isn』t suitable for fediverse content (he said it』s 「a bad fit for a Mastodon reading experience,」) he thinks that someone else could create 「a nice unified experience」 that covers both RSS feeds and ActivityPub content.

Another commenter pointed out that the Vivaldi web browser includes both an RSS reader and a client for its own Mastodon instance, Vivaldi Social, in its desktop application. There will be a lot of other ideas that get explored in 2024. As Mike McCue, founder of Flipboard, said, 「I think RSS and ActivityPub are like peanut butter and chocolate, and it will be awesome when they are combined.」

Doubling Down on AI Dev Tools

Understandably, many of the forecasts about web development this year revolve around the increasing use of AI.

According to Lee Robinson, vice president of product at Vercel, there will be an increase in AI-generating user interfaces. Of course, Vercel has its own such product (v0), but Robinson thinks it will go beyond that.

Also: Get Ready for Multimodal AI

At the AI Engineer Summit last October, OpenAI said that 2024 will be the year of multimodal. The company shared a demo of GPT-4V (GPT-4 with vision), which converts images to text, and then uses that text to generate new images. According to OpenAI, text will be the 「connective tissue」 for multimodal large language model (LLM) development.

The number of multimodal LLMs will likely increase in 2024. According to Jacob Marks, a machine learning engineer at Voxel51, now 「models like GPT-4V, Google』s Gemini, and open source IDEFICS from Hugging Face and LLaVA can natively ingest both images and text.」

Praying for Less JavaScript

I』ll finish with a wish than a prediction: Wouldn』t it be great if web development became less complex and lessened its reliance on convoluted JavaScript frameworks? It』s not just me saying this, but longstanding and influential members of the web development community.

「I think it』s fair to say that we』ve made the frontend so complex now that anyone who can hack it writing JavaScript in a kind of complex frontend today can easily train to learn CSS and HTML, and the basics,」 said Microsoft Edge developer (and former Chrome developer) Alex Russell in a podcast this year.

Eleventy creator, Zach Leatherman, is also an advocate for a simpler web. Recently he hit back at Netlify』s state of web development report, which I covered in our 2023 web dev wrap-up. Leatherman said the Netlify report 「looks bad for Eleventy」 (and Next.js). He claimed that 「Netlify has a vested interest in elevating Astro, because Astro is best poised to dethrone Next.js.」 But it was the following comment that might be the biggest takeaway:

「On Astro (since folks have asked), I will say that Astro and Eleventy share the same zero JavaScript footprint vision for the web, and in that regard we are allies in the web development framework melee.」

A zero JavaScript footprint … is that too much to hope for in 2024? Probably, but let』s at least reduce the footprint.

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