Free and open source React components, a Harvard course & the war of headless CMS
CodeSketched Newsletter - Edition #016
Hello there, fellow visual learner 🙌🏾
This is the post for the second week of March. Could not send the newsletter on Sunday but that does not mean I would miss out this week. Better late than never. This week’s list of resources is amazing.
Let’s begin 🙌🏾
❶ Open source component and hooks
When we think about component libraries, we generally think about React Bootstrap or Material UI, or even Chakra UI. But one of the most underrated component libraries out there has to be Mantine.
It is a set of fully functional open-source components and hooks that greatly simplify and accelerate the development process. They recently released v6.0 and there’s no looking back. Check it out here.
❷ Get to be a Harvard student
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a student at Harvard?
Most of us dream about how the lectures would be, what topics would get covered, etc. Well, dream no more.
The entire Web Programming (with Python and JavaScript) course taught at Harvard is freely available on YouTube:
❸ The war of headless CMS
If you know about headless CMS, you know that Shopify is a major player in the space. But, there is a new open-source player (Medusa) in the house that is challenging the status quo. In this article, we see how well Medusa fares as a Shopify alternative.
🐥 Tweet of the week - Thinking in React 🧐
This week's tweet Alex shares a video teaches us to get into that React mindset. 
🎁 Extra:
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P.S. Here are other places where we exist: 🎥 CodeSketched YouTube channel, website
Cheers! 🙌🏾