A TypeScript release targeted at Node developers

February 4, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

Introducing Mentoss: The fetch Mocker — A new approach to mocking global fetch() calls (in both browsers and server-side runtimes) inspired by previous attempts like Nock and MSW. Nicholas C. Zakas The Modern Way to Write JavaScript Servers? — The irony is that while Node popularized…

Top 7+ SaaS Tools for Startups in 2025 [+ Key Features]

January 31, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Want to give your startup an edge in 2025? The right SaaS tools can make or break your business, helping you automate workflows, boost efficiency, and scale faster than ever. But with so many options available, how do you know which ones truly deliver? Read…

Enhancing Code Generation with Real-Time Execution in Amazon Q Developer

January 31, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

As AI continues to drive rapid innovation in software development, a reliable runtime environment for real-time testing is essential to promote high-quality code generation. Developers often face delays in feature delivery as they spend significant time debugging and iterating on AI-generated code to verify it…

A WebAssembly compiler in 192 bytes

January 31, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

JavaScript: The Hard Parts — Take your knowledge to the next level with the most loved JavaScript course in the industry. Deepen your understanding of the most important aspects of JavaScript. This highly rated video course goes under the hood, looking at callbacks, higher-order functions,…

Kube Resource Orchestrator, From Experiment to Community Project

January 30, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

When we introduced our new experimental project Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro) in November last year at KubeCon North America, we were thrilled by the initial response. Customers are excited about kro’s simplicity, and we have seen some creative and novel solutions to common problems. We…

Announcing the AWS CDK Glue L2 Construct

January 30, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Today, we’re announcing the release of the new AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) L2 construct for AWS Glue. This construct simplifies the correct configuration of Glue jobs, workflows, and triggers. Reviewing Glue documentation and examples of the valid parameters for each job type and language…

AI Web App Generators: Build in Minutes

January 29, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Did you know that 65% of all app development is already done by business users who aren’t professionals in programming? In fact, they do not need to write even a single line of code! In a world where a programming background does not play as…

Three ways to detect React performance issues

January 29, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

💡 Along similar lines, React Scan continues to go from strength to strength, and React Geiger (though not updated in a while) provides an interesting audio based way to ‘hear’ performance issues. The First Newsletter Dedicated to Product Engineers — The fastest growing startups increasingly rely…

Things people get wrong about Electron

January 28, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

A Failed Attempt to Shrink All npm Packages by 5% — What if you could shrink all npm package sizes by 5%.. wouldn’t that benefit all of us? Here’s how one developer did just that using Zopfli compression and then made a proposal to the…