Tag: development

Were React hooks a mistake? Take 2.

March 8, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Why You Should Use a React ‘Framework’ — Whether it’s Next.js, Gatsby, Remix, or something else, using a bigger framework that itself uses React is de rigueur in 2023. Lee examines why, complete with a nice iceberg metaphor, and does a good job of boiling…

Improve collaboration between teams by using AWS CDK constructs

February 23, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

There are different ways to organize teams to deliver great software products. There are companies that give the end-to-end responsibility for a product to a single team, like Amazon’s Two-Pizza teams, and there are companies where multiple teams split the responsibility between infrastructure (or platform)…

Single executable apps come to Node core

February 23, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

▶  The State of Node.js Core with Colin Ihrig — Colin sits on the Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and gives us a 30-minute presentation reviewing what’s going on and some potential upcoming features (including a permissions system, better TypeScript integration, proxy support for fetch and…

Automatic integration tests for Express apps

February 16, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

How To Scale Node Apps with Clustering — Node’s cluster module can be used to run and manage multiple Node instances as a way to distribute workloads. Stanley gives a thorough and practical walkthrough of how to do it and why and when it yields a benefit.…

Using GitHub Actions with Amazon CodeCatalyst

February 9, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

An Amazon CodeCatalyst workflow is an automated procedure that describes how to build, test, and deploy your code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. You can use GitHub Actions alongside native CodeCatalyst actions in a CodeCatalyst workflow. Introduction: In a prior…

Node gets a new URL parser

February 9, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Ada 1.0: Node’s Forthcoming New URL Parser — Node.js is moving to a new, faster URL parser called Ada (ironically written in C++ and not Ada). It passes the full WHATWG and Node test suites, though we’d be surprised if there aren’t a few teething…

Develop a serverless application in Python using Amazon CodeWhisperer

January 23, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

While writing code to develop applications, developers must keep up with multiple programming languages, frameworks, software libraries, and popular cloud services from providers such as AWS. Even though developers can find code snippets on developer communities, to either learn from them or repurpose the code,…

Building .NET 7 Applications with AWS CodeBuild

January 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed DevOps service for building and testing your applications. As a fully managed service, there is no infrastructure to manage and you pay only for the resources that you use when you are building your applications. CodeBuild provides a default…