719: Fullstack TypeScript Apps with No Build Step?! with Brian LeRoux - Wes and Scott talk with Brian LeRoux about not using a bundler, handling TypeScript, live reloading, Enhance being a meta framework, how Enhance handles CSS, his experience at AWS: Reinvent, and the state of JavaScript run times in 2024.
718: React Server Components - Syntax.fm episode about React Server Components - differences between server components and client components, reasons to run something server side, how server components work etc.
[https://blog.cassidoo.co/post/annoyed-at-react/](Kind of annoyed at React) - I haven’t read an article in a long time that is so consistent with my negative feelings about React. (Of course, I still have a lot of positive feelings.) Some valuable comments about what React and the React team are not the best at, and I hope that we will see improvement in this area in the coming years.
React Libraries for 2024 - A helpful collection of React-related libraries divided into different functionalities.
Serverless Architecture Patterns and Best Practices - This article is exploring serverless core principles and benefits. We’ll see how serverless applications scale effortlessly, adapt to changing workloads, and potentially save you precious resources.
The Query Options API - Explanation why Tanstack Query team went from passing multiple arguments in their functions to one object. There is few nice things to learn from this article.
Memcached Crash Course - What is Memcached system and how you can use it to speed up your web applications by reducing database load. Beginner friendly.
Releases
The Bun Shell - Bun Shell is a new embedded language and interpreter that allows you to run cross-platform shell scripts in TS & JS. VERY intresting experiment project, I didn’t know that this is even possible to do.
Zed - Code at the speed of thought - Zed - code editor made by creators of Atom & Tree-siter - aims to take place of VSCode by providing better performance and out of the box features (live code sharing, Github Copilot connection). Project is now open-source.
Next.js 14.1 - New version of Next.js intronduce improvements to self-hosting, error messages, parallel and intercepted routes, Turbopack, and more.