React populatirty
There are many big reasons for why React has become so popular. Let's examine how popular React is, what people like about it, and when we should/shouldn't use React.
Issue #104 · March 25, 2019
React popularity
“You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers”
Best 7 links of week #12, 2019
Articles
Building a ‘Homebrew’ Video Game Console
An amusing and almost incredible software and hardware projects for fun from a guy who loves retro computing. Definitely inspiring, even if you are not into electronics or consoles.
A JavaScript-Free Frontend
How I used almost no JavaScript to build a modern and complete web app.
Writing Resilient Components
Four principles to set you on the right path when creating production-ready React components.
KV Storage: the Web's First Built-in Module
An introduction to the new KV Storage API, built-in modules, and import maps.
Ten Ways to Secure your Applications
Several commonly overlooked ways to secure your web apps. Our attackers keep getting better, and so must we.
How to Dockerize a Node.js application
Learn how to create a Docker image of your Node.js app and run it on any computer supporting Docker.
Book of the week
Build APIs You Won't Hate: Everyone and their dog wants an API, so you should probably learn how to build them
by Phil Sturgeon
API development is becoming increasingly common for server-side developers thanks to the rise of front-end JavaScript frameworks, iPhone applications, and API-centric architectures. It might seem like grabbing stuff from a data source and shoving it out as JSON would be easy, but surviving changes in business logic, database schema updates, new features, or deprecated endpoints can be a nightmare. After finding many of the existing resources for API development to be lacking, Phil learned a lot of things the hard way through years of trial and error. This book aims to condense that experience, taking examples and explanations further than the trivial apples and pears nonsense tutorials often provide. By passing on some best practices and general good advice you can hit the ground running with API development, combined with some horror stories and how they were overcome/avoided/averted.