Understanding Next.js different rendering modes [Laurent Steff]
jeudi 21 mars 2024
« Next.js is a popular framework built on top of React. Coming from React, or simply the "frontend" world, where everything runs on the browsers could feel a bit confusing. In Next there are different ways like CSR (Client Side Rendering - everything runs on the browser), SSR (Server Side Rendering), Static Site Generation (SSG), ISR (Incremental Static Regeneration). This article explains all of them.  »
[javascript, typescript, framework]
Javascript and JSDoc as an alternative to TypeScript [Laurent STEFF]
jeudi 11 janvier 2024
« Early in 2023 the Svelte library was "ditching" TypeScript for JavaScript and JSDoc. This article gives some ideas about how strong typing can be achieved with JavaScript, JSDoc and VSCode (and ... TypeScript types :D). For those who are less familiar with TypeScript, (and are not afraid of stumbling people animated gifs) this article covers a lot too.  »
[javascript, typescript, typage]
TypeScript 5.0 is out [Laurent Steff]
vendredi 31 mars 2023
« TypeScript 5.0 is now available, with some changes as: standard decorator support (it was experimental before), const parameters, real union enums ...  »
[typescript, javascript, design_pattern]
Trends observed on O'Reilly's learning platform [Laurent Steff]
mercredi 2 février 2022
« Insights from data on O'Reilly's learning platform, some quotes that may be of interest:
  • "We start with an explosion of fantastic achievements that seem like science fiction—imagine, GPT-3 can write stories!"
  • "We know that C++ dominates game programming, but we suspect that it’s also coming to dominate embedded systems, which is really just a more formal way to say “internet of things.” We also suspect (but don’t know) that C++ is becoming more widely used to develop microservices."
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[machine_learning, c++, go, rust, typescript]
Interview with Deno and Node creator [Laurent Steff]
mardi 31 août 2021
« Ryan Dahl talks about programming languages, IDEs, frameworks and much more about software engineering.  »
[javascript, typescript, rust, c++, nodejs, deno, go, développement_logiciel]
Differences between Node and Deno [Laurent Steff]
jeudi 15 juillet 2021
« Deno is a runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript, started by the creator of Node (Ryan Dahl) around 2018. Its stable release is a bit more than one year old. This article gives a bit more detail than the official documentation about the differences between Node and Deno.  »
[javascript_engine, typescript, javascript, rust, nodejs]
An example of TypeScript ROI analysis, by Eric Elliott [Laurent Steff]
mardi 25 mai 2021
« Choosing a language is an architectural choice critical for many things: safety, libraries support, recruitment, ... There is no right or wrong, only choices. Once chosen, it is nice to estimate the balance between benefits and costs. Eric Elliott shares one of hist experience on the matter.  »
[javascript, typescript, architecture]
Migrating from create-react-app-typescript to Create React App [Romain]
jeudi 15 novembre 2018
« create-react-app est un moyen simple de débuter un projet d'UI web en javascript basé sur React. Jusqu'ici, les utilisateurs de TypeScript pouvaient se tourner vers un fork. Signe de l'importance grandissante de TypeScript, depuis la version 2.1.0, create-react-app prend directement en charge ce langage. Ce post de blog indique comment migrer du fork vers la version principale, apparemment sans trop de douleur.  »
[react, typescript]