Tag: Web Development

Happy birthday to React

May 31, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

▶  Celebrating 10 Years of React — Grab yourself a slice of cake, React is 10 years old. As part of the celebrations, Vercel’s Delba de Oliveira ▶️ hosted a ‘roundtable’ discussion (though the table itself has taken the day off ????) with Andrew Clark and…

Microsoft shrunk the TypeScript

May 25, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny Thingamabobs — DeviceScript is a new Microsoft effort to take the TypeScript experience to low-resource microcontroller-based devices. It’s compiled to a custom VM bytecode which can run in such constrained environments. (A bit like Go’s TinyGo.) It’s aimed at VS Code…

Dan Abramov takes React back to the future

May 17, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

▶  React from Another Dimension with Dan Abramov — At Remix Conf 2023, Meta’s Dan Abramov (of both React and Redux fame) gave an illuminating talk about server-side components and server actions, by way of thinking about what React might have been like if the modern JavaScript…

MS’s new tool for digging deep into V8

May 16, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

‘This Page is Hosted on My Android Phone’ — Since it’s been linked on some pretty big sites already, I don’t feel too guilty about linking it here too ???? This is a link to a blog being hosted from a $180 Android phone that’s…

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…

An interactive guide to React rendering

May 3, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Vercel Introduces First-Class Storage Options — Vercel is a popular platform for deploying React apps but has lacked obvious options for data storage (indeed, they have a lot of templates for common third party systems). Now, though, they’ve partnered with Upstash, Neon, and Cloudflare to…

Did you know JavaScript is trademarked?

April 27, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Trivia: This trademark issue is why the standardized form of JS is called ECMAScript. ???? Articles & Tutorials ???? Partytown is worth considering if you’d like to run potentially resource intensive third-party scripts in Web Workers. Modern Alternatives to Create React App — create-react-app was the ‘go…

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…

Is React the new WordPress?

April 12, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Next.js 13.3 Released — Increasingly seen as ‘the’ React framework, Next.js is always worth keeping an eye on. v13.3 introduces a file-based metadata API for dynamically generating assets like sitemaps and robots.txt, dynamic Open Graph image generation, improved routing options, and App Router gains support…

The state of Node.js in 2023

April 11, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

ℹ️ I mentioned it in the last issue, but in case you missed it, Node Weekly is now sent on Tuesdays, so if you missed us, we’re back. Until we take another break in August. ????__Peter Cooper, your editor Trying Node’s Built-In Test Runner —…