Author: Mark Otto

🆕 Update on Flatlogic Web App Generator!

September 30, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

Hey coders! We hasten to share this month’s updates! We’ve added two useful features to the Web Application Generator. In case you haven’t heard… we’ve been hard at work over here launching a web app generator. It is the direct result of more than 7…

What to consider when picking a Node.js framework

September 30, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

QUICK BITS: 🛠 Code & Tools SVGO 2.7: A Node-Based SVG Optimizer — If you’ve worked with SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) at all, you’ve probably seen they can be filled with all sorts of junk code.. SVGO to the rescue. v2.7.0 adds ES modules support. Kir Belevich…

What’s new for React 18?

September 29, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

ButterCMS – #1 Rated Headless CMS. Melts into React Apps — ButterCMS is the #1 rated Headless CMS for React. Enable your marketing team to update website content w/ our easy to use dashboard. Fast content API for modern apps. Secure. Scalable. Less Code. Try…

React Chat App: How to Make a Chat Using Socket.io

September 28, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

Table of contents: Introduction We hope that you will find this article really helpful. And not only because we intend to talk about the theoretical side of React chat apps, their importance and usage, but also because we are going to discuss the practical creation…

How to run third party scripts in a Web Worker

September 24, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

You (Possibly) Don’t Need Moment.js — Moment.js remains a popular date and time manipulation library but this repo shows off (a lot of) alternative approaches, including many native functions that do similar things. Various Contributors Introducing Gatsby 4: Now in Beta — Gatsby 4, the latest…

Electron 15.0 and Node v16.10.0

September 23, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

The Story of 5 RCEs Found in npm for $15,000 — A security researcher explains some remote code execution vulnerabilities he found in the npm tool and how they added up to $15K in payouts. Few of us need to dig into our tools this…

Ten lessons about React state

September 22, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

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…

Quaking in our JavaScript boots

September 17, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

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…

Boarding the Fastify train

September 16, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

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…