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Practical notes on JavaScript tooling, module systems and the platform decisions behind the work we do
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TypeScript 7 Migration: Fix Your tsconfig First
TypeScript 7 removes a dozen deprecated compiler options, flips eight tsconfig defaults and ships no API, so here is the upgrade order.
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Vite 8 Rolldown Migration: What Actually Breaks
Vite 8 replaces esbuild and Rollup with Rolldown; the migration breaks build.rollupOptions, manualChunks, decorators and the esbuild minifier.
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Node's Built-In Test Runner: Ready to Replace Jest?
Node's built-in test runner handles suites, mocking, snapshots and coverage with no dependencies, though watch mode and module mocking are experimental.
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Hydrogen vs Next.js for a Shopify Storefront
Hydrogen hands you Shopify's cart, caching and customer accounts on Oxygen; Next.js hands you a runtime choice and the rest of the work.
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How to Fix INP: Diagnose It Before You Optimise
How to fix INP: use web-vitals attribution and the Long Animation Frames API to name the slow script, then fix the phase that dominates.
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Next.js use cache: Keys, Lifetimes and Limits
How Next.js builds a use cache key, what the cacheLife profiles actually mean, and why cookies() inside a cached scope throws.
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Oxlint vs Biome: Picking an ESLint Replacement
Oxlint is lint-only and runs real tsc type checking through tsgolint, while Biome bundles the formatter and infers types without a compiler.
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Cloudflare Pages vs Workers: Which to Deploy On
Cloudflare now says to start new projects on Workers, not Pages: what Static Assets changes, what breaks, and when Pages still wins.
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Run TypeScript in Node Without ts-node or tsx
Node can run TypeScript without ts-node by stripping types from .ts files, as long as you avoid the four syntax forms it refuses.
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Cross-Document View Transitions Without a Router
Cross-document view transitions animate navigation between plain HTML pages with one CSS at-rule, and no client-side router.
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Mastering Efficient JavaScript Development with PNPM: Beyond the Basics
Following our introduction to PNPM's groundbreaking approach to package management, this article delves deeper into the advanced capabilities and…
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Turbo Repo: Streamlining Your JavaScript Projects for Peak Efficiency
In the dynamic world of software development, efficiency and scalability are paramount. This is especially true in the JavaScript ecosystem, where…