Author: Mark Otto

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…

Trying to use React Native ‘everywhere’

September 15, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

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…

What’s new with all the DevTools?

September 10, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

✍️ 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…

Node gets a built-in package manager manager (not a typo)

September 9, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

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…

The missing piece of testing React hooks and components?

September 8, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

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..…