Learning JS framework concepts by building one

Learn How Modern JS Frameworks Work by Building One — Building things is a great way to learn, even if you don’t end up using what you built. Even better is when someone who’s already built something successful introduces you to the process. Nolan doesn’t go super deep but far enough to whet your appetite and for you to learn a few things by taking it further.

Nolan Lawson

🚀  Astro 4.0 Released — The new major release of the Astro content-site framework is just out, including a new dev toolbar, automatic i18n routing, new view transition APIs, and more. There’s also, experimentally, incremental content caching. Upgrading is simple – an npx @astrojs/upgrade away for most folks.

Astro

Streamline API Development With Postman Workspaces — Postman workspaces give teams shared access to the API tools they need to solve problems together. They are the go-to place for development teams to collaborate and move quickly while staying on the same page.

Postman

Maglev: V8’s Fastest Optimizing JIT — An interesting look under the hood of how the V8 JavaScript engine (as used in Chrome, Node.js and elsewhere) continues to get faster thanks to work on its Maglev JIT compiler which sits between the existing Sparkplug and TurboFan compilers (which both have distinct compilation speed vs code performance tradeoffs).

The V8 Team

Prettier’s CLI: A Performance Deep Dive — We’ve recently written about the bounty the Prettier project put up (and how Biome won it) but Prettier has also been working on itself by hiring the author of this post to find and implement performance improvements, all while sticking with JavaScript.

Fabio Spampinato

Goodbye, Clean Code — Much as Donald Knuth warned us away from premature optimization, here Dan Abramov tells us to beware of premature refactoring and de-duplication. (A golden oldie post from 2020.)

Dan Abramov