The architectural pattern used by Fresh the new full-stack framework built using Deno — Recently Fresh 1.0 was announced, the first stable release of the framework that’s been powering Deno’s homepage for almost a year now. It’s designed to be efficient and kind to the client browser while still allowing for dynamic content to be rendered, but only when it’s strictly needed. How are…

Come see what Microsoft’s bet on Web Components looks like — Fast is a component library designed and maintained by Microsoft. In fact, while you can definitely use Fast as a component library, you can do a lot more than that with it. The way it’s been designed, Fast allows you to build a whole design system with it if that’s…

A quick overview of different tools designed for this particular task — Chances are, if you’re a developer you hate documenting your code. I’m not talking about the classic //This function saves the user to the database comment on top of the saveUser function. Instead, I’m talking about writing useful, lengthy and detailed documentation about your work. We all hate it at…

Until recently I thought Web Components were a failed attempt by the industry to develop a new technology that had failed years ago. I’ve been working on web-related projects for almost 20 years now, in different roles, companies and with different technologies, and I remember reading about them years ago…

The right one for you might not be the one everyone else is using — Using a component library instead of coding your own is a great time saver for any project really. It allows you to focus on building what you want, using a pre-set list of basic building blocks. It’s the equivalent of getting a LEGO set and starting to play with it…

If you do it right, it’s like playing with legos! — How come we know that big functions are bad and we should favor composing bigger functions out of smaller ones to favor readability and maintainability, but we don’t do the same with our UI components? Class components in React are a thing of the past, mind you, you might still…

Google is doing it, why wouldn’t you?! — Believe it or not, Google is one of the biggest monorepo users in our industry. I’m not making this up, their code base is huge, as you can probably imagine, and reports state that they have 95% of it inside the same repository. According to this article from ACM.org Google’s…