Tag: environment

Server Actions fly the nest

October 25, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

🐦/𝕏 ‘use server’ / Server Actions Now in React Canary — No blog post – just a Twitter/X thread – but the React team has announced Server Actions (and Client Actions) are available in the latest React Canary release. Providing a way to run functions created…

Node v20.6.0 released with .env support

September 5, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Node v20.6.0 (Current) Released — As we teased last week, the latest Node release includes all-new built-in support for setting environment variables via .env files, so you may no longer have a need for dotenv, depending on your use case. You can now also use…

‘It’s a miracle anything about this ecosystem works at all.’

May 4, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Psst.. if you’re wondering about the context of today’s subject line, see the first ⚡️ In Brief. Angular v16 Released — With the “biggest release since the initial rollout of Angular”, v16 of the extensive framework introduces a preview of a new signals-based reactivity model (a.k.a. Angular…

Extending CloudFormation and CDK with Third-Party Extensions

March 31, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Did you know you can use CloudFormation to manage third-party resources? The AWS CloudFormation Public Registry provides a searchable collection of CloudFormation extensions and makes it easy to discover and provision them in CloudFormation templates and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) applications. In the past three months, we’ve added…

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…

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…