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JavaScript Gom Jabbar
What's inside that package.json? Pain.
CommonJS is hurting JavaScript
How CommonJS became Node's module system, ESM solved modules for the browser, and why supporting both slows down the JavaScript ecosystem.
How to Write More Efficient JavaScript Conditions
When you're coding in JavaScript, conditions are important for developing a functional application. Conditional statements are important because you use them as "validators" which can either return truth or false. You can then use them to trigger further actions within the program. But with many long, messy if statements
Useful DevTools Tips and Tricks — Smashing Magazine
Let’s discover the most popular DevTools tips that can boost your productivity and revolutionize your debugging workflow.
DVLA Software Developers: Behind the Screens - Department for Transport Careers
I’m Tom Collins and I am Principal Software Engineer at the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency. More specifically I work within Service Creation where we focus on digital product delivery across several major workstreams. A software developer is a multi-disciplined person who is capable of designing, developing, maintaining, updating, testing, and evaluating software systems and processes. You may […]
2023 State of Web Components
Looking at uses of Web Components in the wild today and how the platform has grown over the years and is likely to evolve in the future.
Understanding React Concurrency
React v18.0 has broken ground by introducing a long-awaited feature: Concurrency! Unfortunately, despite a deluge of resources explaining how to use it, explanations of how it works are sparse. As it is a low-level feature, it’s not critical to understand React’s idea of concurrency, but it doesn’t hurt!
You Might Not Need React Query
React Query is a great library, but like any tool, you should choose it for the right problem
Real World Recommendation System – Part 1
Turning a Node.js Monolith into a Monorepo without Disrupting the Team
Updating my website from my iPad! | Daniel Diaz's Website
How I am able to use github codespaces to develop and push updates to my website, from my iPad.
Well-known URI - Wikipedia
A Well Known URL For Your Personal Avatar
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
A Well-Known Links Resource
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
So you want to build end-to-end tests like a QA Wolf | QA Wolf
A well-built test suite runs faster, gives more reliable results, and makes long-term maintenance easier and cheaper. After thousands and thousands of end-to-end tests, we've picked up a few tricks to build fast, stable, and accurate ones. So come along and we'll teach you how to build automated tests the QA Wolf way.
Abstract vs. Concrete Parameters
Contradictory Patterns for Testable Designs
Bloom Filters Explained
probabilistic data structure to check membership of an item in constant time and space
Complete guide on Playwright visual regression testing - Lost Pixel - holistic Visual Regression Testing cloud
Playwright is a reliable end-to-end testing tool for modern web apps trusted by thousands of developers. In this guide, we will cover how to use playwright for visual regression testing
All JavaScript and TypeScript Features of the last 3 years
This article goes through almost all of the changes of the last 3 years (and some from earlier) in JavaScript / ECMAScript and TypeScript.
How to Create a Custom Debounce Hook with React
In this article, we will look at how to create a custom debounce hook with React.
Faker.js UI
Use Faker.js UI to easiliy generate fake (but realistic) data for testing and development using Faker.js
How to evaluate dependencies
One of my stock interview questions goes:
"When picking between dependencies to use in production,
what factors contribute to your decision?"
I'm surprised by how often
I receive an answer along the lines of
"Github stars" and not much else.
I happen to think Github stars is a terrible metric
for selecting production code,
so this post sets out my idea
of a healthier framework to evaluate dependencies.
SharedWorker - Web APIs | MDN
The SharedWorker interface represents a specific kind of worker that can be accessed from several browsing contexts, such as several windows, iframes or even workers. They implement an interface different than dedicated workers and have a different global scope, SharedWorkerGlobalScope.
Celebrating 10 Years of React – Vercel
Congratulations to the React team for a decade of innovation.
wasmati: You should write your WebAssembly in TypeScript - ZKSECURITY
If you know about WebAssembly or Wasm, you might have heard a few different pitches for why you need it:
It’s a low level language for the web. So, it’s faster than JS. Use it to speed up things. It’s a build target. As such, it enables you to use languages other than JS on the web. You could write a web library in Rust or Go! You actually don’t use it on the web, but on the backend!
JavaScript's Backtick Strings are Likely the Wrong Tool for Your Job
It's way too common to try to put together query strings using JavaScript's template strings. Thankfully, there's an easy and much better way.
Running Promises in Parallel: A Visual Guide - JulesBlom.com
Dealing with multiple promise efficiently using the Promise Concurrecny methods, visualized
WebContainer API Docs
Build the future of web based coding experiences, from interactive tutorials to instant production-ready dev environments.
Lua: The Little Language That Could
An ode to Lua