V8 finds another 5-15% performance boost

May 28, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

Sparkplug: V8’s Non-Optimizing JavaScript Compiler — When you wonder just where the V8 team will pull out a few more % of performance improvements, they come up with something :-). Their new ‘super-fast non-optimizing compiler’ in V8 v9.1 sits in between the existing interpreter and…

Imagine Node running in the browser..

May 27, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

▶  How To Create Your First Flow in Node-RED — Node-RED is a browser-based ‘flow’ programming environment that uses Node.js under the hood and is particularly popular in enterprise IoT systems but works at small scale too. This hour long screencast presents a thorough introduction into…

Sofia React Admin Template Free is Released!

May 26, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

We have released a brand new admin template! Sofia React Template is fresh, stylish, clean, modern, vivid… and absolutely free! MORE INFO DEMO GITHUB Features: Made with React.js & Bootstrap Fully-documented codebase Beautiful charts made with Apexcharts Error page React Bootstrap Tables React.js is not…

Taking a React app to the bare basics

May 26, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

Get Started With React by Building a ‘Whac-a-Mole’ Game — This is aimed at beginners keen to strike some ‘aha!’ moments while learning React, but I think the idea of using React to create a game is intriguing enough to take many out of their…

Ready-to-use e-Commerce Template is Released!

May 24, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

We have released an e-Commerce template. This is a completely new type of product for us. Previously, we focused our efforts on creating admin panels. However, we have had successful experiments in creating unique templates such as Bookkeeper (React Accounting Template), User Management Template, React…

Running Node natively in the browser

May 21, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js Natively in the Browser — An interesting new WebAssembly-based operating system that boots instantly and enables Node.js environments to run directly in the browser. People have been getting very excited about this on Twitter. Only supports Chromium-based browsers for now though. Eric…

How To Use React Native Flatlist

May 20, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

How many apps have you seen that come with lists in them? That may be To-Do Apps, Apps with notes, Email Apps, social Apps with lists of contacts, users, news, some highly specialized apps for the financial sphere with stock prices and real estate worth…

N-API becomes Node-API

May 20, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

Try Scout’s Leading-Edge Performance Monitoring for Free — Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues in minutes. See for yourself why Scout is a Node developers’s best friend with a…

Recoil 0.3 released

May 19, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

React Color Picker Deconstructed — Perhaps you’re satisfiied with just dragging a color picker component into your app. But if you really want to understand what actually goes into this seemingly simple but actually quite complex sort of control, here you can dig into the…