Advanced React in the Wild

React and Next.js have powered some of the web’s most ambitious projects in the last few years. In this period, teams have pushed the envelope on performance (achieving dramatic gains in Core Web Vitals like LCP and the new INP metric), balanced server-side and client-side rendering trade-offs, devised clever caching and state management schemes, and improved both developer and user experience.

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When to choose GitHub-Hosted runners or self-hosted runners with GitHub Actions

Whether it’s building, testing, or deploying code, automating manual processes is key to improving developer experience and achieving a successful DevOps strategy.

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How to exclude commits from git blame

After ten years of being a vivid space user, I decided to move all my projects to tabs. 😲 I applied this change to this blog's repository, and a problem came to light. If you change the formatting of hundreds of files, you're messing with your Git history. git blame becomes pretty useless.

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JSX Over The Wire

REST (or, rather, how REST is broadly used) encourages you to think in terms of Resources rather than Models or ViewModels. At first, your Resources start out as mirroring Models. But a single Model rarely has enough data for a screen, so you develop ad-hoc conventions for nesting Models in a Resource. However, including all the relevant Models (e.g. all Likes of a Post) is often impossible or impractical, so you start adding ViewModel-ish fields like friendLikes to your Resources.

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How Rolldown Works: Module Loading, Dependency Graphs, and Optimization Explained

Rolldown is a blazing-fast JavaScript bundler written in Rust, designed to work seamlessly with the Rollup API. The primary goal of it is to power Vite as its unified bundler in the near future. Right now, Vite relies on esbuild for lightning-quick local development and Rollup for production builds.

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AI Index 2025: State of AI in 10 Charts

Small models get better, regulation moves to the states, and more. The new AI Index Report shows a maturing field, improvements in AI optimization, and a growing saturation of use - and abuse - of this technology.

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Understanding how Vite deals with your node_modules

This is an article about Vite and its features which are related to the node_modules of your projects. In this article, we will explore how Vite deals with them in different modes and scenarios.

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