A Next.js template for SaaS apps

September 18, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

A React 19 Cheat Sheet — From Kent C Dodds, of Epic React fame, comes this part cheat sheet, part succinct reminder of some of the new things you can do in React 19, along with (very) brief code examples. Kent C. Dodds Next.js SaaS Starter: A…

Reinventing the Amazon Q Developer agent for software development

September 17, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Amazon Q Developer is the most capable AI-powered assistant for software development that reimagines the experience across the entire software development lifecycle, making it easier and faster to build, secure, manage, and optimize applications on AWS. Using your natural language input and your project context,…

Tough cookies

September 17, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

💡 But if you prefer the ‘full fat’ experience of Execa, v9.4.0 was released yesterday. ▶  From Node.js to Deno: How It All Began — A brief nine minute documentary exploring the origins of Deno with Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder. A good, quick way to get…

Top 5+ Low-Code/No-Code Tools [Based On Flatlogic Research]

September 16, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Why waste hours coding from scratch when the future of app development is literally at your fingertips? Discover the game-changing low-code/no-code tools that can turn your ideas into reality faster than you ever imagined. Are you wondering which Low-code/No-Code platforms are truly worth your time?…

AWS Welcomes the OpenSearch Software Foundation

September 16, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

OpenSearch, the popular open source, Apache 2.0-licensed, search and analytics suite, is celebrating a significant milestone – transferring OpenSearch to the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a community-driven initiative under the Linux Foundation. This announcement follows the leadership expansion of the project shared earlier this year to…

The heaviest npm packages

September 12, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

The State of ES5 on the Web — Some of the earlier JavaScript build tools focused on allowing developers to write modern JavaScript code that could still run on the browsers of the time by compiling code down to ES5. Time has moved on, but…

How AI is used in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

September 11, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

AI-generated code might save you time, but it’s only scratching the surface of the software development process. Stick around, because understanding the bigger picture separates good developers from great ones. When searching for ways to streamline software creation, you probably ask yourself: How much can…

A bumper React 19 feature roundup

September 11, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

What’s New in React 19 — A thorough roundup of what’s coming in React 19, which has been in release candidate status for several months now, covering both headline features like Server Components and Actions, as well as many smaller enhancements like easier preloading of…

Express.js 5.0

September 10, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Express.js 5.0 Released; Sort Of — After a long period of seeming to merely be on life support, work on Express picked up significantly earlier this year with a big plan to push ‘Express forward.’ The first fruit of this process is now beginning to…