React and Node.js Updates

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Chris Lojniewski
May 01, 2024

React 19 Beta introduces Actions for streamlined data fetching and state updates, along with Server Components and improved compatibility. TypeScript 5.5 Beta brings performance and size optimizations, syntax checking for regular expressions, and enhanced ECMAScript module support. React 19 | TypeScript 5.5 Beta

Engineering Leadership

  • A guide to help engineers conduct effective user interviews, covering preparation, finding the right users, asking insightful questions, and leveraging insights. LINK

  • Coaching is the best way to learn how to be a better leader, teaching you to spend time in others' minds and understand their belief systems. LINK

  • Strategies to prevent scope creep when managing outsourced teams, including setting clear requirements, maintaining communication, and leveraging static code analysis. LINK

Ebook: The CTO’s Ultimate Guide to Next.Js

A comprehensive guide to Next.js, tailored for CTOs and tech leaders. It covers the fundamentals, strategic analysis, advanced techniques, real-world examples, and future-proofing strategies, showcasing how Next.js can enhance performance, improve SEO, and simplify development processes.

https://pagepro.co/blog/ebook-the-ctos-ultimate-guide-to-next-js-1/

Developer Productivity

  • A study on AI tools' impact at ANZ Bank shows GitHub Copilot improved productivity, code quality, and job satisfaction. LINK

  • Wasp helps visualize a full-stack app, offering config-based management of auth, cron jobs, routes, and email sending. LINK

  • Strategies to improve REST API performance using new Node.js frameworks, better request parsing, efficient caching, and parallelism. LINK

Scalability and Performance

  • Mobile observability is uniquely challenging due to long release cycles, limited resources, and sporadic connectivity. LINK

  • OpenLIT is an observability platform for GenAI and LLM applications, seamlessly integrating with OpenTelemetry. LINK

  • Vercel announces improved infrastructure pricing with more granular metrics and reduced base prices, helping scale-ups optimize costs. LINK

Miscellaneous

  • A comprehensive guide to Next.js for CTOs and tech leaders, covering fundamentals, strategic analysis, real-world examples, and future-proofing strategies. LINK

  • Village Roadshow improved DX and UX while cutting costs by 50% by replacing Sitecore with Vercel + Contentful. LINK

  • XState Store is a tiny state management library inspired by XState, offering strong event and snapshot types with automatic inference. LINK

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