Douglas Crockford calls JavaScript ‘smelly.’

June 8, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Announcing TypeScript 5.1 — This release of the statically typed JavaScript superset is a gentle ‘quality of life’ step forward rather than a featureful extravaganza, but we get support for linked editing of JSX tag names, namespaced JSX attributes, the ability to have unrelated types…

React’s turning into Angular, PHP, and what else now?

June 7, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Dan Abramov’s Deep Dive into React Server Components — Having faced a raft of questions about Server Components, Dan has sat down to write a series covering everything from the ground up by reimplementing a basic form of RSC from scratch. It’s not aimed at…

Hands on with Node’s new built-in test runner

June 6, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

qnm: A CLI Tool to Look Into node_modules — If you’ve been into a node_modules folder and been overwhelmed, this tool (supporting both npm and Yarn) lets you dig around with extra guidance as to what is what. You can use fuzzy search to find…

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.…