Tag: Coding

The unbearable weight of massive JavaScript

November 23, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Time to Take the State of JavaScript 2023 — The long standing State of JavaScript survey is back for another run at figuring out what the community is up to and what tools we’re using. The results are always illuminating and we’ll share the tastiest…

Introducing Amazon CodeWhisperer for command line

November 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

The command line is used by over thirty million engineers to write, build, run, debug, and deploy software. However, despite how critical it is to the software development process, the command line is notoriously hard to use. Its output is terse, its interface is from…

Milo: A new HTTP parser for Node?

November 14, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

👍 Note: There’s a ‘last update’ badge saying 2021, but it’s incorrect – there was a big update this month 😄 ▶  Talks from the Node.js Collab Summit 2023 — If you want to stay up to date with the latest discussions within the Node project, here are the…

Say hello to source maps in prod

November 8, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Headless Component: A Pattern for Composing React UIs — Posting on the Martin Fowler blog, an engineer at Atlassian takes us on a (very) practical journey into the concept of headless components and the pattern of having reusable logic and behavior separate from the presentation…

Web Components forever?

October 26, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

🗣 Jake’s post fuelled an extensive Hacker News discussion touching on everything from MDX and htmx‘s role, to state management and the ‘shallow’ nature of the Web Components API as-is. Yarn 4.0 Released — Starting life as an npm alternative that resolved several of its…

Why is Low-Code the Future of App Development?

September 8, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Low-code application development has been experiencing explosive growth in recent years, and it’s time you learned more about it. For as long as computers have been part of the workplace, application development has been a necessity for businesses of all kinds. So, a question on…

Official docs on using TypeScript with React

August 16, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

⛱ I’m taking two weeks off and will be back on Wednesday, September 6. So if you don’t see the newsletter turn up for a while, rest assured it’s not your fault 😉__Peter Cooper, your editor ‘My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM’ — Mark, well known…

College Students’ Guide to Future Tech: Web Development Trends

August 12, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

The tech landscape is ever-changing, and web development stands as no exception. With an upsurge in digital evolution across all sectors, web development skills remain in high demand. The digital epoch requires web developers not only to master the latest technologies and trends but to…