Explore the Best 10 Alternatives to Figma for UI/UX Designers

Considering alternatives to Figma? Figma has garnered a strong reputation as a leading tool in the Design Collaboration category, known for its Free version, competitive pricing, user-friendly interface, and seamless design collaboration. However, there ... more

Next.js 14 previews partial prerendering

Next.js 14, the latest version of Vercel’s React-based framework for web development, previews a compiler improvement for dynamic content. Introduced October 26, Next.js 14 offers an experimental preview of partial prerendering, a compiler optimization ... more

OpenSSL Recent Security Patches

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9 Hotjar Alternatives For Every Team & Budget (October 2023)

Ever since David Darmanin launched Hotjar in 2014, it’s become one of the go-to user analytics tools worldwide. Fans love its minimalist and intuitive interface, visual heatmaps, and feedback & survey widgets. However, it has limitations that turn ... more

7 Best Product Analytics Tools For Every Team & Budget (OCT 2023)

Product analytics tools capture, visualize, and analyze user behavior on the web, allowing product teams to gain actionable insight on how to improve their apps and websites. They provide a complete picture of not only how and where but also why users ... more

Make a Voice Call to GPT with Twilio Programmable Voice

This is the year AI became ubiquitous. I interact with OpenAI's ChatGPT daily, seeking different sorts of help but asking a lot just out of curiosity. However, in certain situations – walking, driving a car, having no or poor cell service – accessing ... more

How We Designed & Built a View Transition Demo

The new View Transitions API is one of the most exciting updates for the web in years and is beginning to land in stable browsers. It introduces the ability to do smooth page transitions on the web – similar to a mobile app experience – in a simple and ... more

React Native Animated Blur component

react-native-animated-blur-view React Native Animated Blur component https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-animated-blur-view Installation npm install react-native-animated-blur-view Usage import AnimatedBlurView, { AnimatedBlurViewMethods } from ... more

WebKit Features in Safari 17.1

Today we are pleased to share what new in WebKit for Safari 17.1. It’s now available for iOS 17.1, iPadOS 17.1, macOS Sonoma 14.1, macOS Ventura and macOS Monterey. Managed Media Source Safari 17.1 now brings the new Managed Media Source API to iPhone. ... more

Node.js 21 Release Updates V8 Engine, WebSteams Module and Test Runner

The Node.js team has recently released Node.js 21. This release introduces changes such as updates to the V8 JavaScript engine, stable fetch and WebStreams modules, an experimental flag for altering module defaults, a built-in WebSocket client, and enhancements ... more

Using JavaScript's built-in objects

JavaScript's built-in objects include Object , JSON , console , String , Math , Date , and the window and global objects. These are some of the most important and useful parts of the JavaScript language. Together, they are essential elements of the programming ... more

Microservice for Handling SendGrid Inbound Parse

As I’ve discussed during this email microservice series, Twilio SendGrid is an extremely powerful email platform – but it does require some building. In the first two posts in the series, I showed you a microservices architecture to handle outgoing API ... more

Microservice for Sending Email using Twilio SendGrid Email API

Twilio SendGrid is an extremely powerful platform for sending and receiving emails, but it does require some building. When talking to customers about using the SendGrid Email API, I often talk about a “communications layer” or a “microservice” or some ... more

Microservice for Handling SendGrid Event Webhooks

The first part of this blog series showed how enterprises could build a microservice to send outbound emails in a centralized and scalable way. In this second post on AWS microservices, we will handle incoming SendGrid Event Webhooks. These Event Webhooks ... more

Node v21.1.0 (Current)

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Node v20.9.0 (LTS)

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JavaScript Decorators: An In-depth Guide

Learn about decorators in JavaScript: what they are, how they work, what they're useful for, their pros and cons, and how to use them. Continue reading JavaScript Decorators: An In-depth Guide on SitePoint. ... more

Shanghai UI/UX Meetup November 2023: Designing for all: How diversity & inclusion elevate user experience in UI/UX

Thanks to all of you who joined us for our last Hacker News Meetup. Moving forward, time for another Design conversation. It will happen on Thursday, November 30th 2023. We will be talking about Inclisive design vs. diversity : Theme : Designing for ... more

React useTransition: performance game changer or...?

#429 – October 23, 2023 React useTransition: performance game changer or…? Looking into what React Concurrent Rendering is, what hooks like useTransition and useDeferredValue do, what are the benefits and downsides of using them. Got better things to ... more

AutoSave with VSCode

Visual Studio Code has taken the crown of most used text editor, at least in JavaScript spheres. VSCode is fast, feature-filled, and supports thousands of plugins to boost productivity. Developers can also tweak hundreds of settings to enrich functionality. ... more

Changing Colors in an SVG Element Using CSS and JavaScript

Almost everything inside an inline SVG image is up for modification using CSS and JavaScript. Let's find out how by changing some colors! ... more

React useTransition: performance game changer or...?

#429 – October 23, 2023 React useTransition: performance game changer or…? Looking into what React Concurrent Rendering is, what hooks like useTransition and useDeferredValue do, what are the benefits and downsides of using them. Got better things to ... more

After six years, move Float16Array to Stage 3.

The proposer explains why this article Float16Array Proposal has recently advanced to Stage 3. (in Japanese) ... more

React Native library for detecting component visibility in the viewport

React Native Viewport Detector react-native-viewport-detector is a library for monitoring the visibility of React Native components within the viewport. It provides a straightforward way to track whether a child component is currently visible to the user ... more

Article: How to Sustain Quality and Velocity in a JavaScript or TypeScript Project?

The JavaScript language and its ever-changing ecosystem of packages and practices can make codebases quickly become hard to maintain. The resulting loss of development velocity and/or code quality can be prevented without rewriting everything from scratch, ... more

View Transitions in Astro

Astro 3.0 was released recently and it includes some great improvements, but the most exciting feature by far is its support for the View Transitions API (MDN)! In this article, I’ll briefly introduce Astro and View Transitions, and walk through a demo ... more

See How Much Your APM is Costing You to Monitor Node.js Apps

We are excited to share the release of our new Cost Calculator to showcase just how much the wrong APM provider can add to your cloud hosting costs (try it now). Observability is vital, but it comes with computational overhead that shares the same infrastructure ... more

Creating a premier digital experience for GUCCI on WeChat

Luxury fashion powerhouse GUCCI relies heavily on Chinese market. According to Barclays, last year China accounted for around 35% of GUCCI’s annual sales. As one of the most beloved high-end brands among Chinese customers, GUCCI has been constantly modernizing ... more

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 181

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 181 Safari Technology Preview Release 181 is now available for download for macOS Sonoma and macOS Ventura. If you already have Safari Technology Preview installed, you can update it in System Settings under ... more

Node.js 21 brings WebSocket client

Node.js 21, the latest release of the open source cross-platform JavaScript runtime, has arrived, featuring a built-in WebSocket client and support for globs in the platform’s test runner. Announced October 17, Node.js 21 is equipped with an experimental, ... more