▶ A Coding Interview with Dan Abramov — Dan Abramov, best known for his fantastic Overreacted blog and co-creating Redux, bravely subjects himself to a ‘coding interview’ with Ben Awad. They cover a mixture of JavaScript and frontend topics, including.. centering a div! Ben Awad and Dan…
asciinema-player, Now 4x Smaller and 50x Faster with JS and Rust — asciinema is a Python-based terminal screen recorder (think Camtasia but for text!) but to play its recordings on the Web asciinema-player is used. Originally written in ClojureScript, a mixed JS + Rust build…
Vercel, Creator of Next.js, Raises $150M — There’s a lot of money in developer tooling lately, it seems, including for the stewards of the Next.js project which gains a fresh competitor, of sorts, this week in the shape of Remix (above). Vercel IN BRIEF: RELEASES:…
Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript — These sorts of stories always seem to be popular as teams weigh up the best way to progress. Etsy had a lot of JavaScript code but felt some of the problems they were encountering could be solved by TypeScript. This…
‘Rust is the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure’ — It’s an opinion but the growing evidence is compelling. Rust (as well as Go) is now being heavily used to replace parts of the JavaScript tooling ecosystem that might have otherwise been written in JavaScript before (e.g.…
Chrome’s New Feature to Record and Replay User Flows — It’s only a preview feature in Canary builds right now, but Chrome is adding a new Recorder panel to its DevTools which lets you record and replay a string of actions on a page (including…
Next.js 12 Released — The popular Node.js + React development framework takes a big step forward with improvements including beta support for middleware, native ES module support, a Rust-powered compiler for 5x faster builds, and much more. The Vercel Team Shortcut Is Project Management Without the Management…
What’s New in the Now Fully Released Gatsby 4 — Gatsby is a popular React-based open-source framework and v4 introduces new content rendering methods (such as Deferred Static Generation), React 18 future proofing, new build and deployment architecture, new CMS APIs, and more. Jeff James (Gatsby)…
Parcel v2 Released — Parcel, a fast zero-config webapp build tool, first came out in 2017 (issue 364!) and took the JavaScript world by storm. v2 is a full rewrite that takes the same principles from v1 but extends them to fit projects of ‘any…
🎧 The new season of Kent’s podcast is worth checking out as it features informative interviews with folks like Josh Comeau, Tracy Lee, and Michael Jackson. Web Streams Everywhere (and Fetch for Node.js) — A look at how most JavaScript platforms (including browsers) now have…