Feb
14,
2024
pnpm – The High-Performance Package Manager
It’s hard to imagine developing TypeScript applications without package managers, and the same is true for JavaScript. But you should avoid non-type-safe variants as much as you can in your daily work. What would the web community be like if there was just one package manager? We can fall back on several alternatives, to be precise, three of them. This article will look at pnpm. This package manager is somewhat of an outsider compared to npm and Yarn. However, it’s becoming increasingly popular and not without reason, as you’ll see below.
Jan
17,
2024
What’s New in Next.js 14?
Without a doubt, the Next.js JavaScript framework is generating the most attention in the front-end world. It remains to be seen if this attention is entirely positive, but undeniable progress is currently unfolding in this domain. In this article, we’ll examine the newest version, Next.js 14.
Sep
27,
2023
Is Remix Better Than Next.js?
Remix specializes in server-side rendered websites and promises a better developer and user experience and faster load times with an innovative approach to routing. In the React ecosystem, Next.js has established itself as the technology for dynamic websites. Since the late 2021, Remix is a new contender from the makers of React Router. Let’s see an overview of Remix using a sample application and compare it to Next.js.
Aug
21,
2023
Svelte 4 Under the Hood
The web framework Svelte is currently undergoing lots of great activity. In December 2022, after a long beta phase, version 1 of the official Svelte meta framework SvelteKit was finally released. Then, in June 2023, Svelte 4 was released. This article takes a look at the latest major version’s new features and at what else can be expected in the future.
Aug
7,
2023
Tauri 2.0: A look at the Rust-based JS framework
Tauri is an open-source Rust-based framework for building native-feeling apps for a wide array of operating systems. Generally speaking, Tauri-based apps leverage the system web view and the IPC bridge between the web view and the Rust host, also known as Tauri Core. Tauri provides a number of interfaces to lower-level systems, like file access, and makes these interfaces available to the user interface in a web view via JS APIs that send and receive messages across the IPC.
Jul
12,
2023
Future-proof Module Federation With Browser Technologies
Module federation greatly simplifies the implementation of microfrontends. However, it is — to some extent — linked to webpack. This is not a major issue in the short term, and possibly also in the medium term, because webpack is currently the most popular build tool for web technologies, with over 20 million downloads.
Jun
12,
2023
Vercel’s Turborepo: “Never do the same work twice”
In this interview, we spoke with Jared Palmer, Director of Frameworks and Developer Tools at Vercel and learned all about Turborepo, a build system for JavaScript and TypeScript, and discussed the advantages of monorepos.
May
2,
2023
TypeScript 5: New Innovations & Breaking Changes
After an extensive testing phase, the final version of TypeScript 5 implements incompatible changes. However, disregarding the new decorator implementation, these should have manageable effects in practice. In this article, we’ll take a look at what’s new in TypeScript 5 and what’s changed.
Feb
15,
2023
Resumability in JavaScript
Fast could mean a lot of things, but in this article, we are concerned with startup performance. From the moment the user clicks on a link to navigate to a page until the page is ready for interaction. This contrasts with the update performance of how long it takes to update the UI when the user interacts with the page. The startup performance is where we could see the most benefit to user experience.
Feb
1,
2022
From Bundlers and the complexity of JavaScript projects
Back to square one
JavaScript projects are complex, with many homegrown problems. This article explores some of these problems and their causes. We will discuss how you can find a way out of the complexity trap can be found with the help of modern tools and standards, such as Snowpack and ESM.