Gain huge performance improvements with a small error trade-off — Have you ever tried to sign-up for a website and the website keeps telling you that your chosen username is already taken? You then start using your personal data, like your name, and then add your last name to the mix, and the site keeps telling you: “username already taken”…

With version 1.26 of Deno, the team released support for the Web Cache API, which provides an accessible way of storing Request and Response data for a certain amount of time. There are still some unimplemented features, but the release so far looks very promising. Let’s take a look at…

An overview of the release notes of Deno 1.27 — In October, the Deno team released version 1.27, and in this article we’re going to quickly analyze how good that update was. You see, release notes tend to be filled with details that sometimes are hard to understand or even can confuse those not working directly on the release. So…

A human-friendly version of the release notes with highlights of what’s new in Node v19 — As usual, when the release notes for a new version of a runtime come out, we have a bunch of updates regarding very internal and transparent bits (at least to us, as users of the runtime). However, with the release notes of Node.js 19, we have some interesting gems that…

Learning how to build a website using the island of interactivity pattern provided by Astro. — The “Islands of Interactivity” pattern is being talked (or written) about quite a lot lately, and that’s because more frameworks are starting to embrace it. Recently Fresh 1.0 was released, and they base their entire architecture around this pattern. …

Give your Web Components superpowers and let them talk to each other — As a native solution to bundling presentational logic into an “entity”, Web Components work great. They let you create complex HTML elements that can have rich behaviors thanks to the included JavaScript, and that you, as a user, don’t have to worry about. However, they’re straightforward if you’re thinking about…

Can we make these two get along already?! — Astro poses a very interesting premise: you can build your site with whatever framework you choose to use, including, of course, Astro itself. But the “whatever framework you choose to use” part caught my eye, because you can actually mix and match. It’s not like you can just import your…