Bun vs. NPM, Yarn, pnpm, and others

Table of contents: What is Bun? Bun is a fast JavaScript all-in-one toolkit. It can be used as a runtime (a drop-in replacement much faster than Node.js), as a test runner, and even as a package manager. Which is what interests us today. Unlike Node.

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Moving back to React

daily.dev switched from Preact to React for its frontend framework, aiming to resolve development issues and enhance performance. The move, executed during a team hackathon, involved significant planning, testing, and codebase adjustments. This shift allowed for better compatibility with Next.

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This is Why I Didn’t Accept You as a Senior Software Engineer

Interviews for engineering positions are incredibly complicated and stressful, and I must applaud and appreciate all those who dare to be interviewed to fulfill their career dreams.

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The Stressful Leap from Engineer to CTO

You know who the best managers are? They’re the great individual contributors who never, ever want to be a manager, but decide they want to be a manager, because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as them. I fully agree with Steve Jobs on that.

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Building a progressive web app in Remix with Remix PWA

Progressive web apps (PWAs) are applications that look and behave like mobile apps, but are built using web technologies. While they leverage native mobile features, you access them through the browser like regular web applications, meaning you don’t have to download them via mobile app marketplaces.

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How Qwik’s Astro Integration Beats Both React and Vanilla JS

In this post I’ll be talking about the new @qwikdev/astro integration. I believe it to be the solution I’ve been looking for to flatten out a bump I encountered while developing my personal website.

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Architectural Decisions — The Making Of

Architectural Decisions (ADs) have been answering “why” questions about design options since the inception of software architecture in the 1990s. Ways to capture them should be part of each architect’s toolbox.

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Top 10 GPTs by OpenAI So Far (Explained with Examples)

At OpenAI’s recent DevDay event, one of the standout announcements was the unveiling of specialized GPTs. Imagine these as individualized versions of ChatGPT, each acting as an assistant with expertise in a specific domain.

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Modern Architectures with Angular – Part 2: Build Performance with Nx

The first part of this series laid the foundation for a maintainable Angular architecture. We've been thinking about domain slicing, categorizing modules, and enforcing rules based on them with Sheriff.

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67 Weird Debugging Tricks Your Browser Doesn't Want You to Know

Let’s say you want to inspect a DOM element that only conditionally appears. Inspecting said element requires moving your mouse to it, but when you try to, it disappears: To inspect the element you can paste this into your console: setTimeout(function() { debugger; }, 5000);.

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Microservices aren't the problem. Incompetent people are

Have you read the awesome essay “Death by a thousand microservices”? I agree with everything said in it. However, I’d like to emphasise that microservices aren’t a problem in itself. Also, I don’t think monoliths are necessarily a better fit most of the time even for smaller products.

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Announcing Vite 5

Vite 4 was released almost a year ago, and it served as a solid base for the ecosystem. npm downloads per week jumped from 2.5 million to 7.5 million, as projects keep building on a shared infrastructure.

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A faster web in 2024

The web is getting faster. In fact, according to HTTP Archive, more websites than ever before are passing the Core Web Vitals assessment, which looks at three metrics that represent different aspects of page performance: loading speed, interaction responsiveness, and layout stability.

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Modern frontend testing with Vitest, Storybook, and Playwright

Mention “testing” to a frontend engineer, and you may risk triggering PTSD. It has traditionally been difficult to do and offered limited value. After all, you can see the UI right on your screen; why would you need to write automated tests to confirm what you can already observe in the browser?

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Why You Want React Query

It's no secret that I ❤️ React Query for how it simplifies the way we're interacting with asynchronous state in our React applications. And I know a lot of fellow devs feel the same.

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Stay Technical While Leading Your Team

Engineers want their manager to deeply understand their work, resolve blockers, and provide technical guidance. Therefore, it’s important to stay technical as an engineering manager. But how do you do that while managing a team?

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Bun – first impressions

Heard of Bun? It's a new JavaScript runtime that recently reached 1.0.0. I've been using it on a few side-projects. Even at work! Ok so what is a runtime? A runtime is the environment that your code runs in. For JavaScript that's your browser, an Electron app, or NodeJS.

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The Four Quadrants of Employee Performance

Hiring, retaining and developing talent is a key leadership skill. Without great talent it’s impossible to have a great team. And without a great team, it’s impossible to build a great organization.

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Mastering React: Common Interview Questions and Answers

To help you prepare for your next React interview, we have compiled a comprehensive list of interview questions and provided detailed answers to help you succeed.

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Reducing Raspberry Pi 5's power consumption by 140x

Sorry to clickbait with that title... but it's actually true. I can help you improve power use by 140x—for power off power consumption, at least. By default, the Raspberry Pi 5 (like the Pi 4 before it) leaves the SoC powered up (just in a shutdown state) when you shut down the Pi.

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How to Be a Better Leader by Communicating More Assertively

One bite of a pasta piece, and I immediately know whether it is perfectly cooked. Al dente. The perfect texture for cooked pasta. The perfect combination. Tender, yet firm. Assertiveness is about making your thoughts, needs, and opinions clearly understood.

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Stacked Diffs vs. Trunk Based Development

Stacked diffs means developing features via a series of atomic commits, with each one having it’s own PR. The overall feature therefore consists of a sequential chain of changes, each one building on the last. When taken together, they form a ‘stacked diff’.

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Why I'm Using Next.js

Kent C. Dodds recently published a new article Why I Won't Use Next.js. In the post, Kent shares his opinions on why he's recommending using Remix instead of Next.js. I wanted to share my thoughts on the post and make the case that:

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Sidekick’s Improved Streaming Experience

In the realm of Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots, two of the most persistent user experience disruptions relate to streaming of responses: Markdown rendering jank: Syntax fragments being rendered as raw text until they form a complete Markdown element. This results in a jarring visual experience.

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Astro + Qwik: Houston, we have Resumability!

In mid-late 2022, I had the opportunity to try Astro, a server-first, content-focused, and extremely flexible meta-framework on my day job. It quickly became my go-to for creating landing pages, marketing websites, and even small web apps. If my clients needed something, it was almost always a click and integration guide away.

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Headless Component: a pattern for composing React UIs

As React UI controls become more sophisticated, complex logic can get intertwined with the visual representation. This makes it hard to reason about the behavior of the component, hard to test it, and necessary to build similar components that need a different look.

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AI as a UX Assistant

Summary: Generative-AI bots support UX professionals by acting as content editors, research assistants, ideation partners, and design assistants. To understand how UX professionals use generative AI in their day-to-day work, we conducted a large-scale survey with more than 800 respondents.

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Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform

In March, we shared our vision of a new future of software development with Copilot X, where AI infuses every step of the developer lifecycle. Since then, we’ve been working to scale and mature the underlying technology–and in the process we created something even bigger.

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Cloudflare incident on October 30, 2023

Multiple Cloudflare services were unavailable for 37 minutes on October 30, 2023. This was due to the misconfiguration of a deployment tool used by Workers KV. This was a frustrating incident, made more difficult by Cloudflare’s reliance on our own suite of products.

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Automating Versioning and Releases Using Semantic Release

The SEO team of the Frontend Department at Agoda is responsible for building APIs & libraries that are used by other teams and many small to medium-sized services that talk to each other.

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How Do You Triage Software Bugs?

The concept of triage goes back a long way. In the 1800s, Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey, the Surgeon-in-chief of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard laid the groundwork for what would eventually become modern triage introducing the concept of “treat[ing] the wounded according to the observed gravity of their injuries and the urgency for medical care, regardless of their rank or nationality”.

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Passkeys: A No-Frills Explainer On The Future Of Password-Less Authentication

Passkeys are beginning to make their way into popular apps, from password managers to multi-factor authenticators, but what exactly are they? As this new technology promises to make passwords a thing of the past, Neal Fennimore explains the concepts behind passkeys, demonstrates how they work, and speculates what we might expect from them in the future.

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The Curious Case of LLM Hallucination: Causes and Tips to Reduce its Risks

Large language models (LLMs) are remarkable tools for processing vast data and generating human-like text. They are already used for virtual AI assistance, image annotation, natural language processing, and more. However, LLMs commonly cause hallucinations.

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Hopping instead of hustling: Survey tells us how developers are taking care of business

Both new talent and late-career developers are more likely to be looking. More developers are looking for or are open to a new job now compared to the last two years—that’s according to the results of our latest survey on the state of developer employment.

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Building a reliable notification system

Notifications are essential for delivering real-time updates on relevant and critical information to users, with the ultimate goal of increasing user engagement on a platform.

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OpenTelemetry for Microservices Tracing and Observability

IT teams have been observing applications for their health and performance since the beginning. They observe the telemetry data (logs, metrics, traces) emitted from the application/microservice using various observability tools and make informed decisions regarding scaling, maintaining, or troubleshooting applications in the production environment.

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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Have you noticed that different tools’ reports result in different performance scores? Shouldn’t they be the same if reports rely on the same underlying tooling to generate scores? Take a closer look at how various performance tools audit and report on performance metrics, such as core web vitals. Geoff Graham answers a set of common questions that pop up during performance audits.

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Why Self-Organizing Teams Still Need a Delivery Lead

When I tell someone that I make custom software for a living, I can usually predict their next question. “So are you a designer, or do you write code?” And when I tell them I’m a Delivery Lead, they usually assume I mean a manager.

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5 Reasons to use TypeScript for your Projects

As more developers adopt TypeScript, we’ve curated reasons why use TypeScript in your next project. Although it met some resistance early on, it has quickly become a widely-used programming language in the last decade.

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Hydration, the Saboteur of Lazy Loading

Lazy-loading and executing less code is standard advice to speed up a bloated application. The advice is sound, but I am here to tell you that hydration will try to sabotage you every step of the way.

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The complete guide to WebSockets with React

On this page you’ll learn more than you ever thought you needed to know about WebSockets with React, including how to build a smooth realtime cursor experience from scratch: Jump into the tutorial which uses React on the front and Node on the back or start with some general guidance when it comes

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Optimistic Updates in Tanstack Query v5

Tanstack Query released version 5 with a number of changes and some interesting features, offering an even more powerful toolkit for developers. One of the novelties is a simpler way to perform optimistic updates without having to write code that updates the cache manually.

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