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Reactive Frameworks Cheatsheet - React, Vue, Svelte and Angular
Maxim Akimov
10 min read
PHP Views Package - Templating Made Easy with Blade and Model-Driven Approach
Maxim Akimov
10 min read
Streamlining Releases: Building Scalable CICD Pipelines with Changesets
Overcome common challenges and scale your CICD pipelines for seamless versioning, releases and deployments.
George Oastler
17 min read
Independent vs Locked Versioning in a Workspace
Discover the key differences between locked and independent versioning in workspaces, and learn how to optimize your team's development and deployment workflows.
George Oastler
6 min read
Mastering Versioning: A Guide to Software Stability
Explore the essentials of versioning in software development, from semantic versioning basics to avoiding common pitfalls, and learn how to manage dependencies and updates with confidence
George Oastler
10 min read
Monorepo vs Multirepo Architecture: How to Decide?
Discover the pros and cons of monorepo vs multirepo architectures, and learn how to choose the right approach for your projects to streamline development and accelerate delivery.
George Oastler
10 min read
How to Test Your Ansible Playbooks Locally
Testing your Ansible playbooks locally can save you time and effort. Here are some tips to help you get started.
Chris Taylor
10 min read
It's time to drop ts-node 🌇
Ts-node used to be the go to for running TypeScript in Node.js. However, its time to consider alternatives.
Chris Taylor
4 min read
GitHub Actions: Cache Chaos 🤯
How to configure GitHub Actions to use sane caching that shares caches between branches and evicts old caches. A deep dive into the gotchas and solutions for GitHub Actions caching.
George Oastler
10 min read
TypeScript: Branded Types 🔧
How to brand TypeScript types for norminal typing, providing an automated and easy-to-use way of making a type nominal.
George Oastler
10 min read
Using Vite To Rebuild Local Dependencies in an NPM Workspace
When we make changes to a package that our vite project depends on, Vite doesn't automatically rebuild the local package dependency as it's outside the module graph. This article explains how to get Vite to rebuild local dependencies in an NPM workspace.
Chris Taylor
6 min read
Vite: How to handle `.node` files
Work around for handling `.node` files in vite using a custom plugin. `.node` files are the nodejs way of providing platform specific code. This sounds great, until Vite enters the mix. Vite has no ability to handle native binaries whilst bundling, interpreting `.node` files as raw js. In this article we discuss how to handle `.node` files in Vite.
George Oastler
10 min read
TypeScript: Mapped Type Magic 🪄
Explore how TypeScript mapped types can create some perplexing paradoxes where Cat === Dog! An overview of how to brand identical types so that the TypeScript compiler can tell them apart from each other.
George Oastler
10 min read
