Introducing Open Source AWS CardDemo for Mainframe Modernization  

December 15, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

We are excited to share that AWS has open sourced its AWS Mainframe Modernization CardDemo application for use by the community modernizing mainframe applications. CardDemo is a sample mainframe application. It is designed and developed to test AWS Mainframe Modernization and partner technology for many…

The best of Node Weekly in 2022

December 15, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

The Best of Node Weekly in 2022 This is the final issue of the year (we’re back on January 5, 2023) so today we’re revisiting the most popular links (and releases) of 2022. There’ll be a few useful resources that escaped your attention or that you’ve…

SWR 2.0 and Vite 4.0 released

December 14, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

SWR 2.0: Improved React Hooks for Data Fetching — The second major release of SWR (Stale-While-Revalidate) includes new mutation APIs, improved optimistic UI capabilities, new developer tools, as well as improved support for concurrent rendering. Ding, Liu, Kobayashi, and Xu Vite 4.0 Released — From the…

Vite 4.0 released

December 9, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Vite 4.0 Released — From the same creator as Vue.js, Vite is an exciting piece of frontend tooling offering lots of goodies out of the box: fast hot module replacement, instant server starts, optimized builds with Rollup, TypeScript and JSX support (more on why to…

The official npm site gets a code explorer

December 8, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

💡 I think the code explorer will be pretty handy, if only to take a quick look inside weirdly named junk packages to see what’s going on! 😆 Is Prisma Better Than Your ‘Traditional’ ORM? — Prisma has become a very popular Node project in…

Stop writing ‘fake’ React code

December 7, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

▶  A Trailer for React.js: The Documentary — Honeypot has a good record in producing interesting developer documentaries (such as this one about Vue.js) so it’s neat to see they have a React one on the way in early 2023. Folks like David Nolen, Sophie Alpert,…

Amazon Joins the Open Invention Network

December 6, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

We’re excited to announce that Amazon has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), a patent non-aggression community formed to safeguard essential open source technologies such as Linux and adjacent technologies. Amazon Web Services has long benefited from the innovation arising out of the open source…

Splitting up sentences with Intl.Segmenter

December 2, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Speeding Up the JS Ecosystem, One Library at a Time — JavaScript projects are often so reliant upon dependencies that there are many opportunities to speed up swathes of the ecosystem by fixing small performance issues. Here, one of Preact’s developers shares how he’s been…

Lots of Electron news

December 1, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

The Advent of Code 2022: 25 Days of Code Challenges — If you have a little time each day to do some programming puzzles, the Advent of Code is always fantastic and now in its eighth year. There’s a sub-Reddit where people share and discuss…

Four years of being hooked by React

November 30, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Working with Zustand — Some tips for using Zustand, a relatively minimal state management library with a lot of enthusiastic users. TkDodo As an aside, Zustand’s homepage has one of the nicest (cutest?) parallax-style effects I’ve seen (and I usually dislike parallax effects!) CSS Variables for React…