Tag: javascript

TypeScript 5.2, Node 20.6, and Astro 3.0

September 7, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

😅 We’re back! After two weeks enjoying the blistering desert heat of Las Vegas and downpours of Storm Hilary, I’m ready to get back to the weekly JavaScript roundups – fingers crossed we’re here each week till Christmas now 🙂__Peter Cooper and the Cooperpress team Good…

Node v20.6.0 released with .env support

September 5, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Node v20.6.0 (Current) Released — As we teased last week, the latest Node release includes all-new built-in support for setting environment variables via .env files, so you may no longer have a need for dotenv, depending on your use case. You can now also use…

Updated Version Of Next/Tailwind Stack

August 24, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Exciting news from Next/Tailwind! We’re happy to announce updates to our frontend v0.1.6 and backend v0.2.2, which now include a handy bulk import feature. You can upload a CSV file to create multiple records simultaneously with one click – it’s that easy. Say goodbye to…

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…

Svelte 5 is going to be radical

August 10, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM — What a post! Mark, well known for his work on React, Redux, and much more, details the painful experiences and hard-earned lessons he picked up while migrating the Redux packages to ES modules. Mark ‘acemarke’ Erikson Things You Forgot (or…

Taking JavaScript into Python

August 3, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

A Tale of Evading JavaScript Anti-Debugging Techniques — When you’re poking arounddebugging code written and distributed by a third party, there might be some sneaky traps thrown in your path to prevent your usual techniques from working. What next? Disable breakpoints in DevTools? Use a…

Figuring out if you should use React Server Components

August 2, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Understanding React Server Components — If you’ve struggled to get your head around the ideas involved with React Server Components, and Dan Abramov’s ‘let’s recreate RSCs from scratch’ went a little too deep, this is a good, high-level explanation of the fundamentals that explains what…

Opening up the Node.js toolbox

August 1, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

PythonMonkey: JavaScript/WASM Interop for Python — The alpha release of a new way to bring Python and JavaScript together, by way of embedding Mozilla SpiderMonkey into the Python VM. This post introduces the concept with some examples, an idea of where the project is headed,…

The Node.js best practices list gets a 2023 update

July 25, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

The Node.js Best Practices List: 2023 Edition — A valuable, long standing resource has been “modernized to 2023 standards” (complete with recommendations of more modern libraries) with lots of work by creator Yoni and an ever growing team of contributors. The topics remain the same,…