I didn’t much care for vanilla JavaScript prior to ES6. Through all of the 2000s, I chased different approaches to avoid writing too much of it. First there was RJS (Ruby-to-JavaScript). Then there was CoffeeScript. Both transpiling approaches that turned…

Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling. – GitHub – rails/importmap-rails: Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without tr…

In the previous article we’ve described the basics of lazy loading in React. Now we’re diving a bit deeper, and going to explore the logic laying behind the handy API…

Update phoenix’s default webpack install to work with modern tailwind css and webpack 5.

esbuild makes builds faster, but if you’re invested in webpack, esbuild-loader enables you to use esbuild alongside webpack.

Gravitating away from Javascript over the years, I’ve been exposed to many different programming paradigms and languages. One in particular is functional programming with Elixir, and building web apps with the Phoenix framework. Not only is Elixir a clean…

At Replit, our mission is to make programming more accessible. We provide people with free compute in the cloud so that they can build…

ts-loader has just released v9.0.0. This post goes through what this release is all about, and what it took to ship this version. For intrigue, it includes a brief scamper into my mental health along the way. Some upgrades go smoothly – this one had some …

Webpack 5’s Module Federation makes creating micro frontends straightforward. It is also available in NextJS 10+ via an experimental feature flag and it makes integrating micro frontends a breeze. You first build an external micro frontend and deploy it a…