Keep calm and carry on (using Node)

September 29, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

“Don’t Worry, Nobody is Replacing Node.js” — A bold assertion. Fernando reflects on the growing interest in alternative runtimes like Deno and Bun, but notes none really replace Node.js wholesale in the near future. And even if they did, most of your Node skills would…

LEGO’s take on an accessible select component

September 28, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

🔥  ‘Get in Zoomer, We’re Saving React’ — An opinion piece (often a polite term for ‘rant’) that has proven to be quite divisive on social – some love it, some hate it. If you want to take a risk at potentially being entertained with a…

How to do marketing to developers. A big guide

September 23, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Initial thoughts This article was written by the marketing team of Flatlogic. Flatlogic full-stack web application generator is a tool for the fast creation of web applications from scratch. The tool provides the UI for creating the database schema from which you generate the application…

Extractors for ECMAScript

September 23, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

A Proposed JS Feature: Extractor Objects — Entering stage one at the latest TC39 meeting is a proposal for being able to define your own logic (such as data validation or transformation) to run as part of the object destructuring process. A proposal worth reviewing. Ecma…

The Node testing framework we were sleeping on

September 22, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

📗  Shell Scripting with Node.js — Axel is too humble to call this an ‘Ultimate Guide’ or the like, but it is. After months digging into the guts of Node, npm, and the technicalities of shell scripting, he’s released a complete book. You can support…

Don’t bring me down.. Bruce!

September 21, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

🎵 About the subject line.. yes, I know. 😆 – Ed. ‘React I Love You, but You’re Bringing Me Down’ — An opinionated React thought piece that’s provoked much discussion this week. The author gets creative by checkpointing the progress (or lack thereof) of React…

Best React Component Libraries

September 20, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

React is the most commonly used web framework today. What started as a universal UI library developed by Facebook in 2011 and went open source in 2013 is now widely used to create compelling user interfaces. React consists of components – small pieces of code…

Seven weird ways to call a JavaScript function

September 16, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

MemLab: A Framework for Finding JavaScript Memory Leaks — Facebook (sorry, Meta) has been using MemLab to make significant improvements to the memory use of its main SPA. Now they’ve open sourced the tool (which is itself written in TypeScript) with the hope everyone else…