Making Use of Code Coverage

Code coverage is a peculiar metric. It’s spawned a lot of debate and the views on it differ quite significantly in the JavaScript community. On its own, it’s a tool. Like any tool, it can be useful but it can also be misused.

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You Might Not Need an Effect – React

Effects are an escape hatch from the React paradigm. They let you “step outside” of React and synchronize your components with some external system like a non-React widget, network, or the browser DOM.

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How we Increased Search Traffic by 20x in 4 Months with the Next.js App Router

Get ready for a highly technical blog post. 😂 If you’re not here for code, you might want to check out our Trending Books page, or The 2023 Year in Books. This post will focus on the technical decisions we’ve made on Hardcover over the last year – which are starting to pay huge dividends! The traffic from Google speaks for itself.

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Squeezing Last Bit Of JavaScript Performance For My Automation Game

Shortly after I released Industry Idle, I did a big round of optimization which I wrote about. For those of you who’ve never played Industry Idle, it is a factory automation and economy simulation game.

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Remix Takes on Next.js in Battle of the React Frameworks

The JavaScript frameworks Remix and Astro are currently getting a lot of buzz as simpler alternatives to Next.js, the dominant framework of the React era. Of the two upstart frameworks, Remix is more of a direct competitor to Next.

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Interaction to Next Paint becomes a Core Web Vital on March 12

Interaction to Next Paint will officially become a Core Web Vital and will replace First Input Delay on March 12. The Web Vitals program provides metrics to help web developers measure key aspects of the user experience on the web.

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The outcome of the strategy becomes culture

I also found the sentence as “Execution eats strategy for breakfast”. It is interesting the amount of organizations eating strategy each morning. 😅 Those sentences bring me interesting thoughts regarding how culture, strategy, and execution are related to each other.

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