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Overview: We recently rethought the architecture for the JavaScript side of our codebase at Airbnb. This post will look at (1) the product…

On Sunday, March 6, we migrated we converted more than 3.7 million lines of code with a single pull request. The next day, hundreds of engineers came in to start writing TypeScript for their projects.

Ryan Cooke | Android Engineer, Core Experience

In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to share our experience with the world and show what’s next.

Originally published July 2015 In 2002, Professor Enrico Zaninotto, Dean of Economics at the University of Trento, gave a keynote at the Extreme Programming conference. It was the clearest technical talk I have ever seen, even though it was delivered by a non-programmer in an unfamiliar language. What set the talk apart was the clarity and depth of the thought behind it.

By George Pirocanac A familiar question every software developer and team grapples with is, “How much testing is enough to qualify a softwar...

CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb moments I've had in my own learning journey.

Explore some best practices for setting up a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline for more efficient frontend development.

This week, I’ve written about classless vs. class-based CSS, and how I approach CSS architecture. I’ve also written a fair bit recently about how I’m starting to consider build tools and anti-pattern. This has led to a few conversations about how to structure CSS and and work with modular files if you’re not using a compiler like Sass. Today, I wanted to talk about that. Let’s dig in! Modular files and build tools One of the big benefits of using a build tool like Sass or css-nano is that you break your CSS up into smaller, more modular files, then combine them into one file for deployment.

In this article, I talk about the main reasons that made me want to switch back from Developer Relations to an Engineering role.

Transform your terminal with these 5 awesome Zsh plugins. These plugins enhance the appearance of your terminal and add extra functionality.

Including some of my latest hot takes (okay they are pretty mild).

Different methods and hacks for navigating around in your shell

I’ve had a sneaking suspicion for a whle that OKRs - as in Objectives and Key Results - are in fact clever device deployed by Google 1 to throw startups off track. The appeal of OKRs is in their perceived simplicity: any problem large, or small, organizational or technical, made solvable by careful setting of O’s and KR’s.2 It never plays out as promised: a few cycles deep into OKRs will leave startups wondering why they’re so dumb they can’t implement what seems like a pretty simple system.

It’s 11:43pm on a Monday night. My 6-week-old son is asleep in my office so my wife can get some uninterrupted rest for the first half of the night. He’s finally asleep now, and I probably should be also after a full day of work. But I’m not done for the day. Even though I’m a software engineer by trade, I’m also a computer programmer by hobby and passion. So I do what I’ve been doing for well over a decade now: I boot up my computer to write some code.

Transition from monolithic to monorepo architectures with Vercel. Explore feature flags for safe releases, incremental builds for quick iterations, and skew protection for version consistency to ease codebase management and speed up development.

Seamless. Consistent. High performance. High fidelity. These are a few of the many things the modern web can deliver. Check out https://thewebshowcase.withgoogle.com to see what the platform can do today. #TheWebCan

Learn how to run NPM packages in other places — such as Vercel Edge Functions, or even web browsers — using a couple of simple techniques.

About a month ago I released an app I’d been working on for awhile, Volca Sampler. If you visit the app you might be a bit confused, but among the niche group of folks who own a KORG volca sample hardware sample synthesizer, this app has been very well-received. It embeds KORG’s open-source C library for transferring audio data to the volca sample, making it much easier to load one’s own sounds onto the device.

This article explores how you can test a web application in Rust and compares it to the way you would do it in JavaScript - covering unit tests, integration tests and API testing as well as mocking.

One of the things we believe as a team is that everything we make should be sealed with a blog post. Forcing ourselves to write up a short announcement post for every project we work on acts as a built-in quality check, making sure that we never call a project "done" until we feel comfortable telling the world it's out there. The problem was that up until today, we didn't actually have anywhere to publish those posts!

By Thibaut Sabot (Lead Frontend Engineer)

React-based tech stack to build your next great app with Next.js, Redux, Redux-Saga, React Hook Form and Chakra UI

A hands-on introduction into WebAssembly ( Wasm ). Containing simple wasm examples and wasm tutorials on how to implement concepts and various tasks using WebAssembly.