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Why the text field had to go
In Aardink 0.5, a keystroke in a 5,000-line file took 3.7 seconds to settle on the web. Replacing Compose's text field with a renderer that draws only the lines on screen brought that down to 9 ms.
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diagrams with React Flow
demonstrating static and interactive diagrams using React Flow
astro components
A tour of the Astro Components collection - a small set of self-contained npm packages that add diagrams, theming, and version notes to Astro 6+ sites, each usable as a plain component or a one-line integration.
astro theme toggle
A deep dive into @sjohansson/astro-theme-toggle - an SSR-friendly Astro theme system with light, dark, high-contrast, and color-vision modes, no flash of the wrong theme, and theming driven by either inline variables or data attributes.
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