Tag: software-engineering

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…

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…

The most ‘admired and desired’ Web technology

June 21, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Panda CSS: Modern, Build-Time, Type-Safe CSS-in-JS — Best known for the Chakra UI component library, Segun Adebayo is back with a new DX-focused CSS-in-JS approach boasting build-time generated styles and type safety out of the box. It works with Remix, Vite, Next.js, Astro, and even…

Bundle-time macros with Bun

June 1, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

JavaScript Macros in Bun — Not content with giving the JavaScript world a brand new bundler, Bun’s Jarred has taken it a bit further: ‘macros’ that run at bundle time with the result being directly inlined into your code. They use stage 3 annotated import…

Getting recursive with Node 20.1

May 9, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

???? That said, the fs readdir and opendir functions get a new recursive option which, a commenter notes, could replace some popular third party packages that do the same thing, such as recursive-readdir which gets over 5 million downloads a week(!) Smooth Logging for Node.js…

Performance with Rust-y Node addons

April 25, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

The Postgres Experience You Always Wanted — “What a different support experience Crunchy is. Every support ticket is valuable. We’re encouraged to ask questions. We’re able to do so much more working with a partner who cares as much about data as we do.” Rob…

Rethinking modern React best practices

March 29, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

React Labs: What We’ve Been Working On — The latest look behind the scenes at what’s going on in the React project. React Server Components unsurprisingly make an appearance, but the most striking update is on the progress behind React Forget — an optimizing compiler…