Author: Mark Otto

Demystifying React Server Components

July 12, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

The React Graph Gallery — Live demonstrations of a vast array of different charts and graphs built with React and D3.js, complete with explanations and code you can take away to reproduce them for yourself. Particularly striking examples include Sankey diagrams, treemaps, and correlograms, but…

Running GitHub Actions in a private Subnet with AWS CodeBuild

July 11, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Last week the Developer Tools team announced that AWS CodeBuild now supports GitHub Actions. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that allows you to build and test code. CodeBuild builds are defined as a collection of build commands and related settings, in…

Simple tests for dark scenarios

July 11, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Testing the Dark Scenarios of Your Node App — An interesting look at some examples of easily overlooked but nonetheless important tests to have in your app or package. What happens when a service times out, code is mutating things it shouldn’t, or you have…

CommonJS, we love you, we love you not..

July 6, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

What’s Next for JavaScript: New Features to Look Forward to — A reassuring and high level look at just what goes into making JavaScript better over time, along with some of the new things about to appear or still making their way through the arduous…

Creating videos with React gets even better

July 5, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

▶  What’s Next For Redux? (with Mark Erikson) — The king of the React YouTubers takes a break from his usual screencast format to sit down with Redux maintainer Mark Erikson (a.k.a. acemarke) to talk about both the current and future states of Redux and Redux…

Deno wants us to ditch CommonJS

July 4, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

RegExp’s v Flag with Set Notation and Properties of Strings — The capability of regexes in Node has been turned up a few notches, especially in the support for, and manipulation of, Unicode character sets (for example, you can now do things like ‘match all…

This is a doozy of an issue

June 29, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

A Massive Bug at the Heart of the npm Ecosystem — “This is a doozy,” says the author, who used to work on the npm CLI team. We don’t want to spoil his story too much, but in short, package manifests and actual package contents…

Bad boolean advice

June 28, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

An Update on Next.js’s App Router — The ‘app router’ in Next.js 13+ offers a new approach for structuring Next apps and is recommended for all new ones going forward (it became stable in Next.js 13.4 last month). This post provides a welcome update on…