Hot tips are spicy lil' nuggets related to web development and tooling that I share on my twitter account. I've logged them here to make them easier to find.
Here is how these multi-browser demos are being made. It's not websockets!
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Unreal.
This is not the first time I've said that this week.
AI writing Tailwind + JS given a quick sketch
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🔥 The stale-while-revalidate header is suuuuuuper handy for striking a balance between fast loads and and frequently changed content.
Here I am using it to instantly deliver an OG image that takes ~8s to generate.
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Node.js finally has support for loading .env files! You’ll no longer need the dotenv package
Dropped in 20.6.0
Also supports passing runtime flags like —inspect and —watch
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JavaScript Maps are super underrated.
Keys of a map can be anything - including an object!
Here I'm using the new groupBy proposed API to group array items into a Map or an Object →
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The JavaScript dev dives into a hardware project
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Are we gonna have the IE6 all over again?
If my math is correct, there are more Server JS runtimes than browser JS runtimes!
Good idea, or no?
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Did you know TypeScript <Generics> don't always need to be explicitly set?
You can infer their types by the type of data being passed! Super powerful approach when writing library or util code.
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Server-full Servers
Serverless Functions
Edge Functions
Three kinds of servers - whats the difference?
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The $10 LED tinkerer project:
I got my $5 ESP32 turning off a $4 set of WS2813 LEDs with a $1 PIR sensor
Inspired after having Nick Hehr on the Podcast, where he goes in depth about his projects and even how to get JavaScript running on the microcontroller.