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</> htmx ~ The future of htmx

</> htmx ~ The future of htmx htmx began life as intercooler.js, a library built around jQuery that added behavior based on HTML attributes. For developers who are not familiar with it, jQuery is a venerable JavaScript library that made writing cross-platform JavaScript a lot...

Node’s new built-in support for TypeScript

Node’s new built-in support for TypeScript Update 2025-01-09: Added the section “A few random thoughts”. Starting with v23.6.0, Node.js supports TypeScript without any flags. This blog post explains how it works and what to look out for. A first look at the new feature Filename extension...

17 Tips from a Senior React Developer

17 Tips from a Senior React Developer When I first started, I jumped from writing functions and basic DOM manipulation to learning React. As you can guess, it didn't go well 🤯. This is a common mistake for junior developers: trying to learn React without a solid understanding of Jav...

You don't need Next.js

You don't need Next.js I started ComfyDeploy as an open source project (GitHub) - a full stack app with Next.js doing all the heavy lifting for both frontend and backend. We had Drizzle + Server Actions making everything type-safe and neat. It was all good until things...

Shallow clones versus structured clones

Shallow clones versus structured clones Have you ever had one of those times when you think you’re doing everything right, yet still you get an unexpected bug in your application? Particularly when it is state-related and you thought you did everything you could to isolate the state by ...

smoores.dev - Announcing: @smoores/epub

smoores.dev - Announcing: @smoores/epub I'm going to start publishing individual packages that make up Storyteller's basic functionality, so that they can be used by other projects. I'm kicking things off with @smoores/epub, and hopefully filling a real gap in the open source space.Like...

JSR Is Not Another Package Manager

JSR Is Not Another Package Manager Back when I created Node, there was no standard module system for JavaScript. As a result, the npm registry and Node defaulted to CommonJS (require), a system with fundamental flaws that made it unworkable in browsers. So, almost a decade ago, in ...

Summarizing with Transformers.js

Summarizing with Transformers.js How well does Transformers.js handle summarizing content?arlier this month I took my first look at using Transformers.js, a JavaScript SDK around multiple different models hosted by Hugging Face. My initial experiments worked pretty OK I think. Th...

React Router SDK Beta

React Router SDK Beta We're excited to announce the beta release of @clerk/react-router, a new official SDK that allows developers to add authentication and authorization into their React Router application in matter of minutes. The SDK comes fully equiped with Clerk'...

Platformatic HQ

Platformatic HQ Over the years, Platformatic's co-founders Luca Maraschi and Matteo Collina have worked with dozens of engineering teams at Fortune 500 companies to architect their most important Node.js applications. As part of the Node.js Technical Steering Com...