Bringing static type syntax into JavaScript itself

March 11, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

🤦 Thanks to all readers who noticed we made a mistake with last week’s subject line “TypeScript 2.6 released” – rather than the intended 4.6. We were only 4 years late with that news 😉 Rest assured, more caffeine has been consumed today.. Credit: Daniel Rosenwasser…

What hides in your node_modules?

March 10, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Node v17.7.0 (Current) Released — Updates to nghttp2 and npm (8.5.2), some new options for net.Socket and net.Server, and Ben Noordhuis (one of the most prolific Node contributors who stepped back as a core committer for reasons in 2013) is officially fully back as a…

React 18 Release Candidate released

March 9, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

⭐️  How to Upgrade to the React 18 Release Candidate — The full production release of React 18 is seemingly imminent: just out, the detailed documentation covering the upgrade to this week’s release candidate. The post also includes useful information about some of the major…

What is Node.js?

March 6, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

NodeJS is a backend JavaScript runtime environment (RTE) designed in 2009 by Ryan Dahl, that is used to build server-side applications like websites and internal API services. Node.js is also a cross-platform stack, meaning that applications can be run on such operating systems as macOS,…

10 KPI Templates and Dashboards for Tracking KPI’s

March 5, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction KPIs or Key Performance Indicators are a modern instrument to make a system (business, for example) work effectively. KPIs show how successful the business is, or how professional the employee is. It works with the help of measurable values, that are intended to show…

TypeScript 2.6 released

March 4, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

TypeScript 4.6 Released (And It Even Benefits Non-TS Users!) — The typed superset of JavaScript takes another step forward with the addition of the es2022 target, allowing code in constructors before super(), improved recursion depth checks, more syntax errors that can be detected in JavaScript…

Using ‘execa’ to run other processes

March 3, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Running Commands with execa in Node — We’ve linked to Sindre Sorhus’ popular execa process execution library many times over the years, but here’s a thorough tutorial which also shows off the value execa brings over the vanilla child_process. Simon Plenderleith Tired of Egregious Egress?…

What is Angular

March 2, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction Angular is a client-side open-source JavaScript-based front-end framework, which is used to build custom applications in HTML, CSS and Typescript. AngularJS was launched in 2009 by Misko Hevery and Adam Abrons as a project at Google.  It is a front-end JavaScript framework, which was…

Anti-patterns to avoid in React

March 2, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

▶  Ten React Anti-Patterns to Avoid — A well presented eight minute video that quickly goes through a variety of approaches to reconsider (or at least think twice about before putting into action). Fireship Redux Toolkit 1.8.0 Released — If you’re down with Redux for managing state, the…

How to read the spec behind JavaScript

February 25, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Learn the Fundamentals of Rx.js — This useful JavaScript library is great for managing events that happen over time, and in this detailed video course Steve Kinney covers what you need to know to make use of it — including observables, events, intervals, timers, operators,…