“KISS,” “DRY”, “YAGNI,” and more — Being a good programmer is a mix of skills and some common sense. It is all about being pragmatic and knowing what is the solution that fits better your problem. When facing a challenge, there are some software principles that will guide you in choosing the most correct approach. Those…

Increase your confidence in static typing — The TypeScript language has done anything but grow in the past years. It has been rated as the favorite language for many web developers. It is becoming less and less frequent to have to be working in a plain JavaScript codebase. However, sometimes TypeScript is not used to its fullest…

Build Improvements, better inference for Template String types, and more — The TypeScript 4.8 version is planned to be released on the 23th of August 🎉. This time we won’t see an exciting release. Especially if we compare it to the 4.7.. It is more focused on improving some existing features and bumping up its build times. In this article, I…

Inquierer.js, a must-known Node.js library — Node.js has seen a lot of competition lately. The most well-known competitor for a while has been Deno. Recently it has seen how Bun has gained a lot of traction and popularity. However, don’t be fooled into thinking that Node.js is dead just yet. …

An overview of the new ES13 specs — The new ES13 specs are finally released. Specs? JavaScript is indeed not an open-source language. It’s a language written following the ECMAScript standard specifications. The TC39 committee is in charge of discussing and approving new features. Who are they? “ECMA International’s TC39 is a group of JavaScript developers, implementers, academics…

NodeJs ESM support is finally here — The TypeScript 4.7 version is planned to be released on the 24th of May 🎉. After a not-so-exciting TypeScript 4.6 one, we are in for a treat. It was well known that the team was focusing on the NodeJs integration. Its support for ES Modules on Node is a long-awaited…

Lighter, faster, auto-imports, awesome developer experience — Recently we have had exciting releases for the React ecosystem. First, it was Next.js, then came Remix, and later on React 18. Those were stealing the thunder of any JavaScript framework. They were driving all the frontend discussions and increasing React’s momentum. Luckily, the Nuxt team is making a big…

4 tools to manage efficiently your JavaScript monorepo — The monorepo approach is a great way to manage all the dependencies. It has been a hot topic for some years. It is a great way to keep distinct projects with well-defined relationships. One immediate benefit is that it empowers us to share configurations like ESLint, Prettier, TypeScript, … through…

And how you can create yours too — To me, multitasking is like salt. The right amount can improve your meal but too much would make it not edible and unhealthy. That is why it is so hard to get right. “Multi-tasking — the art of doing twice as much as you should half as well as you…