Author: Mark Otto

AbortController, your newest friend

June 17, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Vitest: A Vite-Powered ‘Blazing Fast’ Unit Testing Framework — Brings a lot of cool stuff into one place and really is quick – if you want near instant feedback when you change your code, check it out. You get Vite’s transformers, resolvers, and plugins, snapshot…

Node 16 to duck out early in September 2023

June 16, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

zx v7.0: Better Script Writing with Node.js — No, not movie scripts, but shell scripts and the like. If writing JavaScript instead of wrestling with bash, Perl or Python sounds better to you, zx can make your life easier. v7.0 is fully rewritten in TypeScript,…

Starting a Web App in 2022 [Research Results]

June 15, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

We are finally happy to share with you the results of the world’s first study on how developers start a web application in 2022. For this research, we wanted to do a deep dive into how engineers around the globe are starting web apps, how…

A visual catalog of 5000+ components.

June 15, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Build Better Chat Faster With The Sendbird React UIKit — The new Sendbird Chat UIKit is easy-to-use and more customizable. Enable the best chat experience in your app with a free 30-day trial. Beyond 30 days, keep innovating for free with our developer plan. Sendbird Quick…

12+ Best Node.js Frameworks for Web App Development in 2022

June 14, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Node.js is getting increasingly popular among developers, to the point where some developers call Node.js their primary choice for backend development. In this article, we review the 12 best Node.js web frameworks that we rate according to their popularity and unique toolkits for time and…

Mathematics is the music of reason.

June 10, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Mathematical Notation Explained with JavaScript — Math has its own fascinating world of notation but if it feels a bit opaque to you, this post will help. It boils down numerous areas of mathematical notation into JavaScript equivalents making it easier to follow what’s going on.…

Javascript Clean Code Principles

June 9, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

One of the books that has most influenced my life is The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. I took a technical writing class in college where we closely studied its recommendations. The book is short and contains over 100 side-by-side comparisons of less effective and…

A big week for Fastify

June 9, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Fastify 4.0 Released — The first major release of a popular, high performance Node.js Web framework in two years warrants some celebration. A focus has been placed on stabilization, modernization, and improving the already quite stable developer experience, rather than flashy new features, although this…

Angular Material Admin Template Update

June 8, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Angular Material Admin is updated and use latest dependencies. What products are affected by the update? Currently, the updates were released on 2 products: What has changed? The main update is touch the version of Angular itself, now the template are built on 13 version…

An alternative to useEffect

June 8, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

▶  Goodbye, useEffect? David Khourshid’s Reactathon Talk — Here, Stately founder David Khourshid makes the case for using event handlers and state machines to simplify handling effects in React apps rather than using useEffect which many developers struggle with and isn’t always well suited for the…