Genius misuse of WOFF 2 and Brotli to win a JavaScript contest.

August 5, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

JS1024 2022 Competition Winners — JS1024 is a ‘code golfing’ contest where you get 15 days to create a JavaScript or GLSL program within 1024 bytes. This results in lots of creative ideas, complete with fantastic (non-minified) source to check out. The winning JS entry…

A new way to query your dependencies.

August 4, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Introducing the New npm Dependency Selector Syntax — Another week, another new npm command! npm query is a new top-level command (as of npm v8.16.0) that lets you query and filter the dependencies of your project with a CSS-like dependency selector format so you can…

One dinosaur that certainly isn’t extinct.

August 3, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Docusaurus 2.0 Released — If you’ve not used Docusaurus yourself, you’ve almost certainly read sites built with it – it’s everywhere! After four years of effort, version 2.0 of the popular React-powered documentation-focused static site generator (but you could use it for other things) has…

Douglas Crockford on ‘retiring’ JavaScript

July 29, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Roll Your Own JavaScript Runtime — Bun, Rhino, Deno, Node, and now Blueboat.. is creating your own JavaScript runtime environment the new “hello world”? 😆 Not quite, but this is a fun walk through the bare basics of the process, and you’ll have a Rust,…

Using Rust to build Node modules

July 28, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Introducing Even More Security Enhancements to npm — GitHub continues to up npm’s security game with enhancements that affect most of us in some way or another. There’s a streamlined login and publishing experience with the npm CLI, you can connect your GitHub and Twitter…

Top Bootstrap Admin Templates

July 27, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Bootstrap is a free high-performance frontend framework that provides out-of-the-box HTML, CSS, and JS components for building mobile responsive websites of any size and complexity. Using Bootstrap, you have ready-made responsive templates and themes available for your web project.  With Bootstrap you will have HTML…

Beautiful maps for React apps

July 27, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Examples of Larger Production-Grade, Open Source React Apps — “All of the to-do apps are great for starting to learn React, but what about real-life? Let’s see what real production React apps are like.” I see people asking for examples like this every week on…

Common JavaScript issues developers face

July 22, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

RedwoodJS vs. Blitz.js: The Future of Fullstack Meta-Frameworks — Quite a lengthy review of both frameworks. Redwood is an opinionated React-based framework oriented heavily round the idea of a GraphQL server as the ‘one API’ at the heart of an app. Blitz, on the other…