Author: Mark Otto

Axios turns 1.0; TypeScript turns 10

October 7, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Together with  🤔 If you wonder why people use Axios when the Fetch API is widely supporters, interceptors are just one of many features its fans cite. ‘I Turned JS Into a Compiled Language (for Fun and Wasm)’ — You can never be bored observing…

Digging into dependencies with npm query

October 6, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Together with  An Active Typosquatting Campaign Targeting npm Users — Security supply chain company Phylum detected a campaign to ‘typosquat’ against a variety of high profile packages. The idea behind typosquatting is that you claim package names similar to others, such as ‘expresss’ for express…

17 minutes to build up your ‘React brain’

October 5, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Together with  â–¶  useState: Is it Asynchronous or.. Not? — Jack admits up front that the answer is.. it’s complicated. He digs into an example to help you ‘build your React brain’ by exploring what’s really going on behind the scenes, noting that the state setter…

How To Write The Software Development Project Brief

October 4, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Software development is as in-demand as it could possibly be today. Big and small companies alike (and even independent entrepreneurs) are regularly hiring software developers to create programs, applications, and various online tools. But just like with anything else, software development requires proper planning to…

Introducing new Flatlogic Platform pricing plans

September 30, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

We’re excited to announce our new pricing plan! Pricing changes are always tough but we do believe that this new structure will be more aligned with how people use our products—and that it’s more sustainable long term for us as well. We want to continue…

How TypeScript 4.9 satisfies

September 30, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

The Web Almanac 2022’s Take on the State of JavaScript in the Real World — What’s better: a survey, or real world usage data from 8 million sites? If you prefer the latter, this is for you. The Web Almanac is an annual ‘state of the…

Keep calm and carry on (using Node)

September 29, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

“Don’t Worry, Nobody is Replacing Node.js” — A bold assertion. Fernando reflects on the growing interest in alternative runtimes like Deno and Bun, but notes none really replace Node.js wholesale in the near future. And even if they did, most of your Node skills would…

LEGO’s take on an accessible select component

September 28, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

🔥  ‘Get in Zoomer, We’re Saving React’ — An opinion piece (often a polite term for ‘rant’) that has proven to be quite divisive on social – some love it, some hate it. If you want to take a risk at potentially being entertained with a…

How to do marketing to developers. A big guide

September 23, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Initial thoughts This article was written by the marketing team of Flatlogic. Flatlogic full-stack web application generator is a tool for the fast creation of web applications from scratch. The tool provides the UI for creating the database schema from which you generate the application…