Format JavaScript as the Romans do?

April 8, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Writing Redux Reducers in Rust — We often cover how Rust is worming its way into numerous JavaScript areas (e.g. Rome, above!) but this is an interesting one: using Rust to write complex functions that are compiled down to WASM and used in a React/Redux app.…

What is NPM?

April 7, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Node Package Manager (npm) is one of the several package managers (default for Node.js) for JavaScript released in 2010. It is used to manage dependencies for packages. npm  consists of:  The npm’s website makes it possible to find third-party packages, create and manage your packages;…

What is Vue?

April 7, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Vue.js is a progressive open-source MVVM frontend JavaScript framework that is designed to be implemented incrementally since the core library focuses only on the presentation layer. Nevertheless, this framework is used for building UI (user interfaces) and complex single-page applications with modern tools and libraries…

The one with the epic code and tools section

April 7, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

JavaScript and Node Testing Best Practices: 2022 Edition — Fifty best practices divided into categories (testing, backend, frontend, etc.) complete with simple examples. We first linked to this 2½ years ago, but a new edition is now out updated for 2022 standards and with translations…

React libraries for 2022

April 6, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

React Libraries for 2022 — The React ecosystem has become so big — we routinely track over 1500 React-related libraries ourselves — the problem is more one of being spoilt for choice than not having what you need. This list represents a sound place when…

Creating a Laravel Project Step by Step

April 1, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Laravel is a PHP-based backend framework. It follows the Model-View-Controller design pattern which explains many of Laravel’s pluses and minuses that we’ll detail further on. Users often credit Laravel with responsiveness, scalability, and a good community. But not everything is so simple. Like many backend…

Time to get decorating

April 1, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

🤞 Fingers crossed, but unless we’ve been successfully pranked ourselves, this is an April Fools’ prank free zone! Sorry if you like a bit of frivolity on April 1st, but completeness and accuracy come before entertainment here. Boring, I know, but we don’t stand a…

A roundup of what’s new in Node.js core

March 31, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

What’s New in Node Core: March 2022 Edition — Rapidly approaching the start of its teenage years (yep, Node turns 13 this May), development of new features in Node isn’t slowing down at all, but what’s going on? This post rounds up some links to…

Best 19 JavaScript Charts Libraries

March 30, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

JavaScript Charting Libraries: Introduction In today’s world, people are struggling more and more with the problem of scattered attention. So it is becoming more and more important to present information in a structured, interesting, and well-designed way, especially if you have a complex business application.…

React 18. It’s here.

March 30, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

React 18.0 Released — Almost a year ago, the plan was for 18 to be simple to upgrade to with minimal changes needed – and despite the introduction of a new concurrent rendered, Suspense, new hooks, automatic batching, and more (all covered in this news…