Bundle-time macros with Bun

June 1, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

JavaScript Macros in Bun — Not content with giving the JavaScript world a brand new bundler, Bun’s Jarred has taken it a bit further: ‘macros’ that run at bundle time with the result being directly inlined into your code. They use stage 3 annotated import…

Optimize software development with Amazon CodeWhisperer

May 31, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Businesses differentiate themselves by delivering new capabilities to their customers faster. They must leverage automation to accelerate their software development by optimizing code quality, improving performance, and ensuring their software meets security/compliance requirements. Trained on billions of lines of Amazon and open-source code, Amazon CodeWhisperer…

Happy birthday to React

May 31, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

▶  Celebrating 10 Years of React — Grab yourself a slice of cake, React is 10 years old. As part of the celebrations, Vercel’s Delba de Oliveira ▶️ hosted a ‘roundtable’ discussion (though the table itself has taken the day off ????) with Andrew Clark and…

All the ways to use Postgres from Node

May 30, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

▶  ‘I Tried 8 Different Postgres ORMs’ — A modern, fast-paced, and slightly irreverent meme-heavy look at the various ways in which you can interact with Postgres (provided serverless by Neon, in this case) from a backend JavaScript app. It’s pretty neat as whirlwind tours go.…

Microsoft shrunk the TypeScript

May 25, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny Thingamabobs — DeviceScript is a new Microsoft effort to take the TypeScript experience to low-resource microcontroller-based devices. It’s compiled to a custom VM bytecode which can run in such constrained environments. (A bit like Go’s TinyGo.) It’s aimed at VS Code…

Understanding React concurrency

May 24, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Full Stack for Front-End Engineers with Jem Young (Netflix) — Learn what it means to become a well-rounded full-stack engineer with this hands-on video course. You’ll dive into servers, work with the command line, understand networking and security, set up continuous integration and deployment, manage…

Node.js 20 is fast(er)

May 23, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

The State of Node.js Performance in 2023 — Nearform’s Rafael Gonzaga reflects on the recent release of Node 20 and puts it through its paces against v18.16 and v16.20 with a few different benchmark suites running on a pretty typical EC2 instance. He goes into…