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September 22, 2021
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Mark Otto
Introducing Gatsby 4, Now in Beta — Gatsby 4, the latest version of the popular React and GraphQL-based site generation framework, introduces new content rendering methods, new build and deployments architecture, new CMS APIs, and more. Gatsby Team ButterCMS – #1 Rated Headless CMS. Melts into…
September 17, 2021
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Mark Otto
Q1K3: A JavaScript Homage to Quake in Just 13KB — It’s (another) quiet week for big JavaScript news, so we’re going with the fun angle and looking at a popular entrant to the latest JS13KGames contest that ended this week. No winners yet but this…
September 16, 2021
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Mark Otto
Tasuku (タスク): A Minimal Task Runner for Node — Tasuku, which is simply Japanese for ‘task’, provides a clean way to break up processes into small tasks which can then be run in the right order with progress displayed elegantly in the terminal. Check out…
September 15, 2021
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Mark Otto
CSS Variables for React Devs — An updated piece, and a solid look at how to use CSS variables (custom properties) in your next project. Josh W Comeau Compound Components In React — Compound components are the building blocks of design systems. If you have the…
September 10, 2021
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Mark Otto
✍️ The hardest time of the year for putting a strong issue together is usually August, but this year the lull has moved to early September 🙂 No big news or releases this week, but lots of bits and pieces you’ll hopefully find useful. __ Peter…
September 9, 2021
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Mark Otto
Fauna: A Modern Serverless Data API for Node.js Apps — Fauna combines the schema flexibility that’s provided by document databases with ACID compliant transactions. Quickly integrate Fauna into your applications with our Data API and leave scaling, sharding and all other operations to Fauna. Fauna GitHub…
September 8, 2021
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Mark Otto
A Guide to React Context and the useContext() Hook — While React Context can seemingly simplify component access to global data regardless of where those components are in the tree, useContext() can add its own brand of complexity, meaning it’s not suitable for every situation and..…
September 6, 2021
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Mark Otto
The market of frontend developers is booming, and you surely know the main spots and platforms where to learn how to code, where to learn new frameworks and languages; how to fix simple bugs and errors, how to maintain and keep sites up-to-date, and so…
September 3, 2021
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Mark Otto
Visual Studio Code August 2021 Released — It always feels odd linking to these as they name releases for the prior month, but new features include automatic language detection, built-in bracket colorization (enabled via editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled), improved terminal glyph rendering, inline hints for JS/TS param names…
September 2, 2021
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Mark Otto
Deploying a Cloud Spanner-Based Node App — Cloud Spanner is an ‘unlimited scale’ managed relational database service Google offers (and which was spun out of an internal database system Google used for numerous services). This post covers the practicalities of building a simple app with…