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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…
September 1, 2021
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Mark Otto
Internationalization is an integral part of modern software development. In addition to English-speaking countries, there are still many paying markets where a project may not be successful without internationalization and localization. Different studies show that 72% of consumers are more likely to stay on a…
September 1, 2021
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Mark Otto
React Native’s ‘Many Platform’ Vision — Facebook has ambitions for React Native beyond the mobile platforms at which it is currently targeted. But did you know that includes the desktop: for example, video calling in Facebook Messenger on Windows and macOS is powered by React…
August 27, 2021
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Mark Otto
jsc: My New Best Friend — If you’re on macOS, did you know you don’t need to install Node or Deno to have a JavaScript runtime at the terminal? JavaScriptCore to the rescue. (You need to create a symbolic link or extend your path before the…
August 26, 2021
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Mark Otto
We’ve decided to get a deeper look into the theme of React Datepickers and present you with Flatlogic’s list of their top representatives. Let’s, first of all, take a little detour into what a React Datepicker is. What is a React Datepicker Generally speaking, a…
August 26, 2021
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Mark Otto
📋 In case you missed our notice a couple of weeks ago, we took a week off last week but are now back every week till Christmas 🙂 Don’t forget you can always hit reply to recommend things for us to consider for future issues…
August 25, 2021
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Mark Otto
Linaria 2.1: Zero-Runtime CSS in JS — Write your CSS-in-JS, but have it build into real CSS files for runtime efficiency. We originally covered v1 of Linaria in 125 way back in 2019, but it has since hit v2 with betas of v3 already appearing.…
August 20, 2021
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Mark Otto
An Absurd Future for SQL on the Web? — absurd-sql is a project aiming to provide a persistent backend for SQLite on the web. It uses IndexedDB but with sql.js in front so you can use SQLite in a natural but persisted way from webapps.…
Best Libraries for React I18n
September 1, 2021 By Mark Otto OffInternationalization is an integral part of modern software development. In addition to English-speaking countries, there are still many paying markets where a project may not be successful without internationalization and localization. Different studies show that 72% of consumers are more likely to stay on a…