Apple Unveils M1, Its System-on-a-Chip for Mac Computers

Apple has unveiled its first ARM-based ‘Apple Silicon’ Macs (the Air, 13” Pro and Mini) built around a chip called the M1. Dev reactions have been mixed with a 16GB memory limit notable to those heavily using VMs or Docker. The perf and efficiency improvements seem good and many developers are sure to adopt these systems in due course. - http://amp.gs/o8Bs

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Using GitHub Actions to Securely Publish npm Packages

One approach to using GitHub Actions to publish npm packages from repositories following the typical GitHub developer flow with pull requests, etc. - http://amp.gs/oTlW

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An Introduction to Data Visualization with ApexCharts

ApexCharts is an MIT-licensed interactive JavaScript charting library. - http://amp.gs/ozly

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Building Modern Native Addons for Node in 2020

N-API provides a stable API to develop native add-ons against and all LTS versions of Node now support N-API version 3 or higher, so if you haven’t explored the art of building native add-ons in a while, now’s a great time. - http://amp.gs/o1IR

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Thinking Like a Front-end Developer

Ahmad Shadeed demonstrates an approach to implementing a layout in CSS. - http://amp.gs/o1cc

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Filtering, Sorting, and Searching in Arrays with Vue.js

Improve your user’s access to the relevant data - http://amp.gs/otza

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The Best Way To Architect Your Angular Libraries

The ideas presented in this article are based on extensive experience from large enterprise environment (100 Angular SPAs and 30+ libs )… - http://amp.gs/otcp

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10 Insights From Adopting TypeScript At Scale

A fantastic writeup (from a TC39 member, no less) of how Bloomberg (the financial media company) adopted TypeScript and now has 2,000 full-time JavaScript engineers. Curiously we also learn that Bloomberg also have their own JavaScript runtime built around the V8 engine. - http://amp.gs/om5d

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Ten React Security Best Practices

A compact distillation of seemingly everything you need to know about making your React app more capable of withstanding exploits. This includes a methodology for automating testing to help ensure you’ve done it right. - http://amp.gs/opl3

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A Dynamically-Sized Sticky Sidebar with HTML and CSS

Ryan Mulligan demonstrates how to create a flexible sticky sidebar component. - http://amp.gs/oljk

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Capturing User Emails in Google Sheets

The team behind a political prediction visualization needed to stay in touch with its supporters. Their approach? Spin up a Node-powered function on AWS Lambda and push email addresses onto a Google Sheet. - http://amp.gs/oBYP

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Managing My Personal Server in 2020 with K3s Lightweight Kubernetes

This goes into a lot more detail than you might expect. - http://amp.gs/onGY

#my #server

Reusable Development Containers with Docker Compose and Dip

Dip (Docker Interaction Process) abstracts Docker and Docker Compose files so you can quickly fire up a dev environment without copying anything over. Very useful, especially if you have multiple projects, and here’s how to use it with Ruby, Node, and Erlang. - http://amp.gs/oGT7

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Angular 10 NgRX Store by Example

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use NgRX store in our Angular 10 example application. We’ll see how we can create actions, reducers, and dispatch actions. - http://amp.gs/ox8F

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Migrating A VueJS App To Vuex

One of the difficult things about getting started with Vuex is that it is not so much a library as it is a design pattern. It follows that implementing Vuex is not so much about using an API, as it is about structuring your code to comply with the pattern. If you're new to Vuex, this will be daunting. - http://amp.gs/ofjO

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Use CSS Variables Instead of React Context

Concerned about performance but want to offer users multiple 'themes' (e.g. dark/light mode)? CSS variables can provide a performance advantage over React Context in this context. - http://amp.gs/ofNG

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Adding Authorization to a Serverless Node App with Oso

oso is an open source policy engine for authorization (written in Rust but with a Node library available) that you embed in your application. - http://amp.gs/oCYi

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My Initial Thoughts on Using Flutter and Dart for App Development

Initial impressions and experiences of someone coming to Dart from a JavaScript background. - http://amp.gs/oCJ3

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Angular Feature Flags: Feature toggle applications by using command line environment variables

Angular comes with great built-in support for configuring multiple environments. But sometimes we want to simply pass in environment variables through the command line to toggle certain runtime features. This can be a pain using environment.ts files as we need to create a new environment.ts file for every single feature flag. - http://amp.gs/oktu

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