What up, devs?
I’ve finally had a chance to meet all the Builder team in person which was very exciting. It’s a pretty fun experience de-virtualizing. Other than that, there are some interesting things from the Google IO event with some exciting new web platform features coming to a browser near you.
But without further ado, here’s the Dad Joke of the day:
Did you know that all the ants are female?
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Because if they’d be male, they’d be uncles.
Vishwas kept on doubling down on more AI content for y’all with a way to rapidly mock APIs with ChatGPT and json-server.
Another handy post from Vishwas gives you 50+ ChatGPT prompts for web development.
Wanna learn how to test your custom React hooks with React Testing Library? Vishwas has got you covered 💪🏽.
If you’ve wondered what visual editing is in a headless CMS, Steve compared 4 different approaches.
- Learn how to debug Core Web Vitals issues using the Web Vitals extension.
- Rich Harris apparently thinks that TypeScript is 'not worth it' for developing libraries.
- Next.js 13.4 is out and with it the stabilization of the App Router and server actions (alpha).
- Adam Elmore says “he’s done with React”.
- Craig Buckler wrote an introduction to the Bun JavaScript Runtime.
- Slava Knyazev wrote a Practical Guide To Not Blocking The Event Loop.
- Hold on to your browser and get ready for the new Core Web Vital “INP”. (Check out this video from Google.io for a deep dive).
- Bun v0.6.0 is out. The team also released a new and shiny Bun bundler.
- There’s a neat VsCode extension that integrates Draw.io right in your editor.
- Cronstrue is a JavaScript library that parses a cron expression and outputs a human readable description.
- livefir is a way to Build progressively enhanced Reactive html apps using Go, html/template & Alpine.js.
- Deopt Explorer is a new VSCode extension to inspect de-optimizations. Read the introductory post about it by the Microsoft team.
- Swyx released smol developer — your own personal junior developer.
- The Brex team put out a guide with tips and tricks about prompt engineering.
It’s always a ride following all the dev news happening at such a fast pace. Don’t let your FOMO get ahead of you, and if you enjoy this newsletter, share it with your friends! 😊
That’s it for this time.
Peace!
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Builder.io is a headless CMS that lets you drag and drop with your components right within your existing site.
// Dynamically render your components
export function MyPage({ json }) {
return <BuilderComponent content={json} />
}
registerComponents([MyHero, MyProducts])
