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The story of web framework Hono, from the creator of Hono

The story of web framework Hono, from the creator of Hono Hono is a fast, lightweight web framework that runs anywhere JavaScript does, built with Web Standards. Of course, it runs on Cloudflare Workers. It was three years ago, in December 2021. At that time, I wanted to create applications for Cloudfla...

In the future using top-level await might be cause a backwards compatibility break in Node

In the future using top-level await might be cause a backwards compatibility break in Node This is called a dynamic import and it’s extra annoying, because you can’t just put this at the top of your file. It returns a Promise, so you can only import these modules ‘asynchronously’ or in functions. The reason is that you can only await in...

Node vs Bun: no backend performance difference

Node vs Bun: no backend performance difference In this article I’ll be comparing the performance of Bun vs Node. In particular (as Bun is many things), I will focus on their performance as the runtime for your server-side JavaScript code. With Node being the default choice for many, Bun has to...

How Bun supports V8 APIs without using V8 (part 1) | Bun Blog

How Bun supports V8 APIs without using V8 (part 1) | Bun Blog When packages work in Node.js but don't work in Bun, we consider that a bug in Bun. Native C & C++ APIs are often used in the JavaScript ecosystem for performance-critical libraries like 2D Canvas, database drivers, CPU detection, and more. Bun a...

Little Caesars Pizza Delivers with Gatsby | Gatsby

Little Caesars Pizza Delivers with Gatsby | Gatsby Starting from a single, family-owned restaurant in 1959, Little Caesars has grown into the third-largest pizza chain in the world. Today the company has stores in all 50 U.S. states, plus 26 additional countries and territories. Little Caesars run...

Simplifying Web Development with Alpine.js - A Case Study in Building Educational Games

Simplifying Web Development with Alpine.js - A Case Study in Building Educational Games In the ever-evolving landscape of web development, the quest for simplicity without sacrificing functionality is a challenge many developers face. While heavyweight frameworks offer a comprehensive suite of features, they often come with a steep l...

Converting a Vue 2 App to Alpine.js

Converting a Vue 2 App to Alpine.js Alittle over two years ago I published an "idle clicker game" built in Vue.js. I called it "IdleFleet" and was heavily inspired by games like A Dark Room, where I relied on simple text graphics and game mechanics that would change as you played. I...

Official jQuery Blog | New Wave Javascript

Official jQuery Blog | New Wave Javascript Last February, we released the first beta of jQuery 4.0.0. We’re now ready to release a second, and we expect a release candidate to come soon™. This release comes with a major rewrite to jQuery’s testing infrastructure, which removed all deprecat...

Did switching to Svelte make my blog better? - Jason Stitt

Did switching to Svelte make my blog better? - Jason Stitt For the last 10 years, this blog was built with Pelican, a Python-based static site generator, with Markdown content and Pygments for highlighting code examples. This worked well, but I started thinking about replacing it with a JavaScript framewo...

Your Architecture as a Crime Scene! Forensic Analysis for Your Angular Solutions - ANGULARarchitects

Your Architecture as a Crime Scene! Forensic Analysis for Your Angular Solutions - ANGULARarchitects Good domain boundaries help to make a software system maintainable in the long term. But how do you know whether the originally defined structure is still viable? How do you find out where improvements are needed? An obvious approach is to analyze...