You may not need a monorepo, but it’s useful to know what they are and what they have to offer. You could have a monorepo that is a mix of frontend, backend, utilities, linters, or more, each with its own set of build tools, and various needs.

How often have you wanted to yell at your computer or phone? What if your device could save that tirade as a text in an email or note you could review in the future, a memento of your favorite outbursts? Or, maybe you want to provide your users a more hands-free experience, with alerts that also speak to you. Or you simply want to add a clean voice-to-text component to your application.

Svelte has become increasingly popular over the last several years, even being voted the “most loved” web development framework in the 2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey. Quite a few articles have been written about how much nicer Svelte is to work with than React.

Web bundles are an exciting part of the web packaging specification. They provide you the ability to package up your entire website into a single bundle and share it with others.

Ask almost any developer what their greatest fear is and one deep-seated topic will rise above the rest… dates.

In March 2022, a Stage 0 proposal was announced that would add TypeScript-like type annotations to the JavaScript language. The utility and ergonomics of static types for JavaScript have been debated since before TypeScript’s inception; some developers feel that types add needless complexity to the language, while others feel that types add a much-needed safety net.

The first half of this 2-part series highlighted why ongoing maintenance is vital for the health of large-scale enterprise systems, especially heading into a substantial upgrade or replacement project as the system reaches end-of-life. We inverted the problem and started describing a recipe for implementing the worst “best” possible enterprise system upgrade project a business could ever want.

Enterprise software delivery for large-scale projects is complex. It requires substantial time and financial resources to complete, whereas a single system can cost millions of dollars and take years to deliver.

We’ve talked before about some of the great features Deno brings to the table: first-class TypeScript support, a solid standard library, support for Web standards, and implicit security. All of this makes Deno great for writing scripts and servers, but it also works well for writing client-side applications.

Software engineering is one of the most challenging endeavors we can engage in today. Successful software projects must address the vast scope of today’s applications while paying meticulous attention to the small details that can make the difference between a fast, efficient system and a slow, cumbersome burden.

Expo, a framework that significantly improves the React Native developer experience, has become very popular in the last couple of years. Its “managed” workflow lets developers work entirely in React; the underlying native app, including the often messy process of updating React Native, is completely taken care of by the framework.

React Native is great for writing mobile applications. It lets you use web paradigms for UI construction, which are usually much simpler than the native analogues.