RFC: Intent to Ship React 18 — This RFC covers the new features and changes coming to React 18. While React 18 is very close, the team would like to get ‘one final round of broad public feedback’ (which you can submit here) before shipping. React Community |
Testing Your Web Apps with Cypress — Join Steve Kinney on this detailed course covering Cypress: A fast, easy way to write end-to-end tests for your client-side apps. Learn about the selector engine, test runners, assertion library, and more. Frontend Masters |
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📒 Articles & Tutorials |
An Introduction to AWS CloudFront Functions — CloudFront Functions allow you to deploy serverless JS functions to AWS’ network of edge locations to be executed as close as possible to end-users. Sounds like Lambda@Edge? The author explains the difference there too. Ayooluwa Isaiah |
🛠 Code & Tools |
Ladle: Develop and Test Your React Stories Faster — A new tool for building and testing React components in an isolated environment. Reminds you of Storybook? Ladle aims to be a drop-in replacement but that offers faster performance all round (and, yes, there are benchmarks). Vojtech Miksu |
Postgres.js 3.0: Fast, Full-Featured Postgres Client for Node (and Deno) — Now for both Deno and Node.js, this high performance Postgres library offers realtime change subscription, dynamic query building via a special template literal, large objects, high availability via multi-host connection URLs, async cursors, and more. Slonik is another option to consider in this space too. Rasmus Porsager |
Dum: An EGOIST |