“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute”
Best 7 links of week #35, 2018
In this fantastic talk, Benedikt Meurer, Google Engineer working on V8, explores important ingredients of modern JavaScript engines, and how these ingredients make it possible to write the amazing JavaScript applications that we see today.
If you are feeling nostalgic and really crave that need to use again Windows 95, here is a very simple solution: Windows 95 emulated from within an Electron app! Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. 🤪
After almost 2 years, 4k commits, over 50 pre-releases, and a lot of help we are excited to announce the release of Babel 7. Find out what's new in this exciting release!
A point of view article from a long time Java Engineer moving to the Node.js and JavaScript.
Stimulus is a JavaScript framework with modest ambitions. It doesn’t seek to take over your entire front-end—in fact, it’s not concerned with rendering HTML at all. Instead, it’s designed to augment your HTML with just enough behavior to make it shine.
Chrome DevTools come with an array of features that help developers debug their apps effectively, and therefore find and fix the bugs. There's so much you can do that sometimes, especially at the beginning, it's easy to get lost. This article is gonna help you to be practical and learn what's important.
Learn how to build a GraphQL server with Apollo Server and Express with authentication, authorization, pagination, subscription, database access, tests, etc.
by Sam Newman
Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices. But developing these systems brings its own set of headaches. With lots of examples and practical advice, this book takes a holistic view of the topics that system architects and administrators must consider when building, managing, and evolving microservice architectures.