Every Monday, we take a step back and look at all the cool stuff that went down during the previous week. Last week we wrote about the State of the Developer Nation report, as well as developments in the Java world and Docker Enterprise’s acquisition by Mirantis, plus much more. Let’s take a closer look.
Which programming languages have the strongest communities and the most active programmers? How many devs are implementing DevOps strategies? What frameworks are mobile programmers using? Let’s take a dip into the data and see what 17,000 developers from 155 countries revealed in SlashData’s report, Developer Economics: State of the Developer Nation 17th Edition.
Another month has passed, and that means it’s time to collect our favorite GitHub repos and explore some of the coolest, most impressive, or most interesting projects that we found. October 2019 brought us plenty of projects, including an easy way to create documentation, a low-tech operating system for the end of the world, and more.
Issues related to working with dates are as old of a problem as it gets with JavaScript. In theory it is possible to perform date calculations with JavaScript’s date object, if it weren’t for the many weaknesses of the API. Fortunately, there are helpful libraries that can save us a lot of work. One of them is date-fns.
In this International JavaScript Conference session, Phil Hawksworth demystifies this buzzwordy term, and explores how this approach to simplifying the technology stack can lead to shorter development times, with better performance and greater security. Let’s learn about the JAMstack!
Angular Elements provides Web Components and enables lightweight scenarios such as integration into existing applications, CMS, or Micro Apps. The new Ivy compiler takes care of bundles that are as lean as possible.
Love it, hate it, or neutral on it, JavaScript has had a big hand in making the web what it is today. What makes JavaScript such an essential language to modern web programming? In this article, go through a brief history of JavaScript’s creation, its competition, and some of its drawbacks in modern programming.
Lenz Weber’s International JavaScript Conference talk highlights the different types of state occurring in modern React applications and give recommendations on how to approach them with the tools currently available, with an outlook on the near future.
While 99.9% of npm’s public registry users fall within the range of acceptable use, the outliers will have to take action by either limiting their requests or purchasing the Enterprise edition. The new, clarified rules of npm’s acceptable use are listed on their blog and will be enforced starting this month, September 2019.
React Native is a JavaScript framework for mobile apps based on the React JS platform. It’s used in building popular apps such as Pinterest, Tesla, and Bloomberg News. Some of its features include ease of use and code reusability. In this article, let’s take a look at some of the pros and cons to decide if this framework is right for your work and your app development.
The International JavaScript Conference Early Bird offer ends this week! Are you ready to learn about the most important trends in the field? Don’t miss out on this great offer – buy your tickets now to save up to €315 and get a PS Classic Mini or Arduino Starter Kit!
The balance between the readability of the code and its optimization should be maintained at all times. You should never compromise the performance of an application over its development time. Rushing through the process for the sake of achieving faster time-to-market will make matters even more complicated.
Ever wondered what “Single process with event loop” or “Non blocking IO” mean? Is Node.js really single threaded? How do the event loop and other internal mechanisms of the platform really work? Node.js veteran Tamar Twena-Stern gave a talk at International JavaScript Conference that answers all these questions and more.
The latest release for Feathers is here! Feathers is a web framework for real-time applications and REST APIs for JavaScript and TypeScript. It works with any backend and supports over 15 databases out of the box. Find out what this framework can do for you and what the new update includes, and how you can start creating a production-ready app or start a prototype.
