Modules in JavaScript – CommonJS and ESmodules Explained

Modules are a technique heavily used in today's software design/architecture. First we're going to learn what they are and the different types of modules that exist. Then we're going to discuss why modules are useful. Then we're going to see examples and basic syntax for the most used module types, and finally we're going to discuss bundling, why is it necessary, and how to do it.

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Scrum Master Anti-Patterns — 20 Signs Your Scrum Master Needs Help

The reasons Scrum Masters violate the spirit of the Scrum Guide are multi-faceted. Typical Scrum Master anti-patterns run from ill-suited personal traits to complacency to pursuing individual agendas to frustration with the team itself.

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Moving from Next to Remix

I love testing out new technologies. Frameworks, libraries, and even testing out a new language from time to time, all give me a ton of joy – and I always end up, in the process, learning relevant things about the current technologies I work with.

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Types of JavaScript tests. Basics of unit testing with Jest

Hello! Today we start another big series, which is about JavaScript testing. There are various different types of tests and we will start by explaining some of them.

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Microservices Observability Design Patterns

Observability is the superset of monitoring. In addition to providing granular insights into implicit failure modes, it provides a high-level overview of the system’s health.

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20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

Sprint Planning is a core event, defining how your customers’ lives will improve with the next Product Increment. Learn more on how to improve its effectiveness by avoiding 20 common Sprint Planning anti-patterns. Diagram source: Scrum.org.

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The Challenge of Continuous Delivery in Distributed Environments

Nati Shalom Nati Shalom is the CTO and founder of Cloudify.io. He is a serial entrepreneur and widely published thought leader and speaker in open source, multicloud orchestration, network virtualization, DevOps, and edge computing.

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Build indoor maps with Fabric.js and React

Indoor mapping is a novel concept that uses a digital 2D or 3D map to visualize an indoor venue or geographic data.

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A Dive into React Storybook

When it comes to development testing and documenting components, Storybook is the best tool, in my opinion. Storybook is an awesome tool to help you build, demo, and document component libraries. Components are files that make up the application. Though they make up the main application(App.

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Why Asynchronous Standups Just Can’t Beat Synchronous Standups

As the world has moved toward remote work, many companies are starting to move towards asynchronous standup meetings as well. Unfortunately, asynchronous standups are not only less effective, but they can also actually be harmful.

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Why and How to Use HTTPS in Your Local Development Environment

The HTTPS protocol is mandatory for any website or web application. It guarantees trust and security, and its wide adoption is due to the effort of browser providers and other supporters. However, many developers still use HTTP in their development environment.

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Using the FileReader API to preview images in React

Images make up a significant proportion of data transmitted on the internet. More often than not, clients have to upload image files from their devices to the server. To ensure users upload image files of the correct type, quality, and size, most web applications have features for previewing images.

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The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time

We are in the middle of the longest outage Atlassian has had. Close to 400 companies and anywhere from 50,000 to 400,000 users had no access to JIRA, Confluence, OpsGenie, JIRA Status page, and other Atlassian Cloud services. The outage is its 9th day, having started on Monday, 4th of April.

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How to make the most out of a mentoring relationship

Whether or not you have a formal or more casual mentor in your life, the benefits of a trusted confidant reach far beyond increased engagement and sense of belonging (which, is convincing on its own—we know!).

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Automated Accessibility Testing

Static analysis checkers, CI tools, unit tests, and moreAs more and more companies focus on making their apps accessible, a question that often comes up is “How do we make sure we don’t let things slip?” We’ve done all this work to remediate our app, but how do we make sure we don’t dig ou

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How to Create and Export Web Components From a React Application

Recently, I worked on a project to rewrite a legacy software system. After we began active development, we realized could solve some acute needs of the system with some of the features that we were building.

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Cloud Pricing Comparison: AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud

Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS offer hundreds of different products, with their own service structures, technologies, and pricing models. Let's compare them here. Image Source AWS vs Azure vs Google: An Overview Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s leading cloud computing platform.

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27 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns

Scrum is a tactical framework to build products, provided you identify what is worth making in advance. But even after a successful product discovery phase, you may struggle to create the right thing in the right way if your Product Backlog is not up to the job — garbage in, garbage out.

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ECMAScript proposal “Change Array by copy”: four new non-destructive Array methods

The new methods are for Arrays and TypedArrays  # This blog post only demonstrates the new methods with Arrays, but they are also available for Typed Arrays – that is, instances of the following classes: Int8Array Uint8Array Uint8ClampedArray Int16Array Uint16Array Int32Array Uint32Array Float32

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Nexus Repository Manager

Nexus Repository Manager is a artifact repository manager by . It supports a wide variety of formats like APT, NuGET, Maven and Docker. List of all supported formats can be found .

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How to design a system to scale to your first 100 million users

It is not easy to design a system that supports hundreds of millions of users. It always is a big challenge for a software architect (but it’ll be easy from today after reading my article 🤣) Here are some topics covered by me in this article.

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The Way Software Firms Conduct Technical Interviews is Broken

So you find yourself in need of some software developers. Maybe your company got a big influx of funding, or you’ve had some turnover, or you’re just looking to keep expanding. So you go to leetcode, pick out some cool problems, and pair them with some good behavioral questions.

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Remix: The Yang to React's Yin

I've been building React applications since 2015. Since then, React was the biggest single productivity boost for my development by a long shot. React's declarative model for rendering UI based on state drastically simplified the way I thought about building UIs for the web.

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Javascript Temporal and How it Works

I've written in the past about the many quirks of Javascript dates. The good news is that there are plans for an entirely new piece of Javascript functionality to clean up what Date() does wrong. That functionality is called Temporal.

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What you should have paid attention to in the Spotify Engineering Culture videos that…

Most of the time when someone mentions the “Spotify Model”, they only talk about structure: Squads, Chapters, Tribes, Guilds. When it comes to product development culture, structure is the last thing you should be worried about, not the first.

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The Best Developer Conferences of 2022

Unlike a lot of industries, conferences for developers are actually worth it. So which should you attend? Let's explore the best developer conferences of 2022. Unlike a lot of industries, conferences for developers are actually worth it.

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From the Great Resignation to Lying Flat, Workers Are Opting Out

In China, the U.S., Japan, and Germany, younger generations are rethinking the pursuit of wealth. The Great Resignation has U.S. workers quitting their jobs in record numbers—more than 24 million did so from April to September this year—and many are staying out of the labor force.

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React Libraries in 2022

React has been around for a while. Since then a well-rounded yet overwhelming ecosystem evolved around the component driven library. Developers coming from other programming languages or frameworks often have a hard time figuring out all the building blocks for building web applications with React.

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How to Survive the Software Product Roadmap Writing Experience

Some of our clients have been asked by stakeholders to develop a product roadmap. If you are one of those product people who find yourself in a tense situation when asked to commit something in writing, I hope you will find these tips useful. Stakeholders run product companies.

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Solid.js feels like what I always wanted React to be

Edit: thanks all for checking out this post! If you think Solid looks as promising as I do, please consider visiting the Solid.js GitHub repo and giving them a “Star” for their great work. I started working with React professionally about three years ago.

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Sustainable architectures in a world of Agile, DevOps, and cloud

Creating and maintaining software architectures that remain sustainable over time is a challenge for software architects and engineers.

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Getting to Know the Broadcast Channel API in JavaScript

Users can open the same application in multiple tabs at the same time. It may be necessary to sync data locally between these tabs in some cases. A typical example is when logging out. Users can log out in one tab and stay logged in in a second tab.

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When does React render your component?

This post is my version of Mark Erikson's essay A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior where I tried to answer one of the most commonly asked questions in this React community – "when or why does React render my component?" – with a tiny amount of React source code walkthrough.

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Software Sprint Retrospectives

So, what exactly is a sprint retrospective? On our software project teams, we hold a meeting at the end of each sprint, where we gather as a team and look back on the sprint to discuss how it went. There are many formats for sprint retrospectives, but at its core, the goal is to determine:

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cool web moments

Take a scroll down memory lane... Tell us which moments you loved the most. If we’ve missed anything (and we’re sure we have!), tweet us @Chromiumdev with #100CoolWebMoments. Enjoy!

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Server-sent events vs. WebSockets

The HTTP request-response model is the primary communication model of the web. In this model, a client (usually a browser) sends a request for a resource to a server, the server processes the requests, then sends back a response accordingly.

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Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure

Updated reference architecturesChangelogWhat hasn’t changed: Stability in the coreWhat’s new: Cambrian explosionUpdated blueprintsThe data platform hypothesisWhat is a platform?What is a data platform?The emergence of data apps?Looking aheadJoin the NewsletterEmerging Architectures for Modern Da

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