Author: Mark Otto

New Flatlogic Technical AI Assistant!

April 18, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

We are excited to introduce a new Flatlogic AI assistant feature designed to simplify the app development process on our platform. Replacing the previous method of entering a project description into a large input field, the new feature uses a conversational AI assistant that intelligently…

Visualizing algorithms

April 18, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Airbnb’s Extensive JavaScript Style Guide — It’s been years since we mentioned this popular, opinionated style guide, but it keeps getting little tweaks and repairs and remains a handy resource nonetheless. Airbnb WorkOS: Enterprise-Grade Auth for Modern SaaS Apps — WorkOS supports both the foundational auth…

React 18.3 and faster JSX are on the way

April 17, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

CSS in React Server Components — An exploration of compatibility issues between React Server Components and CSS-in-JS libraries like styled-components, including what some of your options are and what’s coming in future. Josh W Comeau Lydia Hallie Tests Your JavaScript Knowledge — Challenge your core knowledge…

7+ Advantages Pre-Built Data Management Templates in Business

April 16, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Are you ready to change the way you look at data? With pre-built data management templates, businesses no longer need to concern themselves with data management. These templates do all the work on your behalf, allowing you to focus your time and effort on business-critical…

What Node’s contributors have been discussing

April 16, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

A Trip Report from the Latest Node.js Collaboration Summit — Twice a year, Node’s collaborators and community members meet at collaboration summits to share knowledge, discuss problems, and flesh out new ideas. The last one took place in London earlier this month and featured discussion…

An easy way to experiment with signals

April 11, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Frontend Development Beyond React: Svelte — A surprisingly thorough article going deep into one developer’s research into using Svelte to build modern front-end apps. If you’ve never experimented with Svelte, this is a good primer to the key concepts, tradeoffs, and techniques involved. Héla Ben Khalfallah…

The Easiest Way to Deliver Web Applications

April 10, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

In this internet age, it’s mad important for businesses and devs to make sure their sites load lightning fast and run smooth for users, feel me? But damn, there’s like a million different ways to build and launch websites, so it can really mess with…

React still exists; doing well

April 10, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

React Server Components in a Nutshell — A quick overview of RSCs that’s not focused around Next.js! Paul compares the approach taken by several frameworks before sharing his broader thoughts on the technology and why the small Waku framework is worth a look. Paul Scanlon (The…

zx 8.0 for better Node scripting

April 9, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

zx v8.0: Google’s Way to Write Shell Scripts with Node — A long-standing way to make scripting a more pleasant experience. zx provides useful wrappers around child_process, escapes arguments and gives sensible defaults. v8.0 somehow makes zx 20x smaller, faster, makes it easier to kill…

Lean Into Verified Software Development

April 8, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Some software components are really important to get right, like your application’s access control policies and core business logic. There are a growing number of tools to help you verify the correctness of these components by leveraging automated reasoning. In developing Cedar, an open source…