Next.js Server Actions are public-facing API endpoints

Thanks to Server Actions, developers are able to execute server-side code on user interaction, without having to create an API endpoint themselves. I’ve emphasised “themselves”, because server actions are a syntactic sugar for API endpoints, which to my surprise, is not that well-known amongst some professionals in the industry.

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Beyond the Gang of Four: Practical Design Patterns for Modern AI Systems

Key Takeaways AI design patterns are repeatable solutions for common problems in modern AI-driven software, saving teams from reinventing solutions. We group them into five buckets: Prompting & Context, Responsible AI, User Experience, AI-Ops, and Optimization Patterns.

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Human coders are still better than LLMs

This is a short story of how humans are still so much more capable of LLMs. Note that I'm not anti-AI or alike, you know it if you know me / follow me somewhere. I use LLMs routinely, like I did today, when I want to test my ideas, for code reviews, to understand if there are better approaches than what I had in mind, to explore stuff at the limit of my expertise, and so forth (I wrote a blog post about coding with LLMs almost two years..

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Resilient Import Maps - Better Theme Development and Beyond

As part of Shopify’s push for faster build pipelines, we began adopting JavaScript modules as a core platform primitive. However, after migrating our Online Store Editor to use modules, developers started reporting issues.

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Announcing Rolldown-Vite

TL;DR: Try out the Rolldown-powered Vite today by using the rolldown-vite package instead of the default vite package. It is a drop-in replacement, as Rolldown will become the default bundler for Vite in the future. Switching should reduce your build time, especially for larger projects.

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The Beauty of TanStack Router

Choosing a Router is probably one of the most important architectural decisions we have to make. The router isn't just another dependency in node_modules - it's what holds your whole application together.

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Manual Work is a Bug

A.B.A: always be automating Thomas A. Limoncelli Let me tell you about two systems administrators I know. Both were overloaded, busy IT engineers. Both had many repetitive tasks to do. Both wanted to automate these tasks.

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GitHub for Beginners: Building a React App with GitHub Copilot

Welcome to the next episode in our GitHub for Beginners series, where we’re diving into the world of GitHub Copilot. This is our sixth episode, and we’ve covered quite a lot of ground. You can check out all our previous episodes on our blog or as videos.

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