JavaScript, ML and LLMs

September 14, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Bun 1.0: Is It a Toolkit? Is It a Runtime? It’s Both — You’ve used Node, you’ve seen Deno, now Bun has grown up too. It’s a performance-oriented server-side JS runtime built atop JavaScriptCore and makes the unique claim of being “a drop-in replacement for…

Argo CD Application Controller Scalability Testing on Amazon EKS

September 13, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

As more customers adopt Kubernetes and GitOps for their delivery of containerized applications, we at AWS are witnessing growing interest in understanding and operating GitOps platforms at scale. Argo CD is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) application delivery tool that runs on Kubernetes.…

React Server Components explained

September 13, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Find Your Perfect Course or Learning Path with Frontend Masters — The Exploration Sale is live! Get access to over 200 courses, all with revamped learning paths. There’s a slew of new workshops and courses on the way too, covering TailwindCSS, TypeScript, accessibility, algorithms, Angular,…

You can run GitHub Gists with npx

September 12, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

MikroORM 5.8 Released — When MikroORM is mentioned anywhere, I always see folks saying it’s great and deserves more attention, so I’m doing my bit to help 😁 It’s an ORM for Node based around Data Mapper, Unit of Work (hello implicit transactions and change…

Why is Low-Code the Future of App Development?

September 8, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Low-code application development has been experiencing explosive growth in recent years, and it’s time you learned more about it. For as long as computers have been part of the workplace, application development has been a necessity for businesses of all kinds. So, a question on…

TypeScript 5.2, Node 20.6, and Astro 3.0

September 7, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

😅 We’re back! After two weeks enjoying the blistering desert heat of Las Vegas and downpours of Storm Hilary, I’m ready to get back to the weekly JavaScript roundups – fingers crossed we’re here each week till Christmas now 🙂__Peter Cooper and the Cooperpress team Good…

Explaining why React re-renders

September 6, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

👋 If you didn’t receive any issues recently, we were on vacation.. but we’re back! It’s been a quiet summer for the React world, though, so catching up won’t be too tricky – let’s get moving.. 😉__Peter Cooper and the Cooperpress team Astro 3.0 Released — Astro…

Node v20.6.0 released with .env support

September 5, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Node v20.6.0 (Current) Released — As we teased last week, the latest Node release includes all-new built-in support for setting environment variables via .env files, so you may no longer have a need for dotenv, depending on your use case. You can now also use…