Introducing WYSIWYG editor for Flatlogic Platform

September 8, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

We are happy to announce that the Schema Editor of the Flatlogic Platform now supports the ability to add WYSIWYG to your project! It took a long time, and thanks to customer feedback, we’ve finally made it! The WYSIWYG editor is based on the TinyMCE…

Using ML to rewrite a test suite to Playwright

September 8, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

🤖  Rewriting Tests from Cypress to Playwright with AI — Gajus needed to move an entire integration test suite from one framework to another – boring and laborious job, right? Gajus put AI to work, first in the shape of GitHub’s Copilot, but then using…

Generating dynamic video animations with React

September 7, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

▶  Creating F1 Style Graphics with Remotion — Fans of Formula 1 motorracing may recall the ‘stinger’ transition from the 2021 season. The author of Remotion – a library that can generate video from React code – walks through its recreation in what can only be…

Top Angular Admin Dashboard Templates

September 2, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

The angular framework was developed by Google and announced in September 2016. A major advantage of this technology since its release to date has been its frequent updates. The Angular team presents programmers with new updates almost every few months. Improved versions of the framework…

David’s handy JS debugging tip

September 2, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

12 Useful JavaScript Data Grid Libraries — A rundown of some data grid libraries for providing spreadsheet-esque views over datasets – Zara also shares her recommendations on things to consider when making a choice. Zara Cooper IN BRIEF: DEBUGGING TIP: David Walsh shows off Chrome’s rather…

Introducing Vue Tailwind Stack for Flatlogic Platform

September 1, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

We are happy to announce that the Flatlogic Platform now supports the new stack –  Vue Tailwind. It took a long time, and thanks to customer feedback, we’ve finally made it! What’s new Clean, rapid, and minimized stack made with Vue JS 3.0 and Tailwind…

The ins and outs of ‘bin’ scripts

September 1, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Tinybench: A Tiny and Simple Benchmarking Library — No dependencies, but uses whatever precise timing capabilities are available (e.g. process.hrtime). You can then benchmark whatever functions you want, specify how long or how many times to benchmark for, and get a variety of stats in return.…

Why React contexts are great, but..

August 31, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Understanding useMemo and useCallback — Many find these hooks confusing. This tutorial takes a crack at what they do exactly, why they’re useful and how to get the most out of them – and all in Josh’s usual highly accessible and engaging style. Josh W. Comeau…

The future JavaScript features at TC39

August 26, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

If you missed my note two weeks ago, we took last week off, so you didn’t miss any issues 🙂 We’re now back every week until Christmas (121 sleeps to go..)__Peter Cooper, your editor. When Alternative JS Runtimes Grow Up: Deno Has Big Changes Ahead,…

Popular Node.js practices to reconsider

August 25, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Popular Node.js Patterns and Tools to Reconsider? — Yoni is well known for his work in cataloging Node best practices but he thinks we should reflect upon entrenched approaches over time. Here he presents nine common approaches to reconsider, including the use of Dotenv, Passport.js,…