Deploying a Website on Firebase and Using It for Free: A Guide

Firebase offers features such as a real-time database, authentication, hosting, cloud storage, and more. Firebase also provides backend functionalities and infrastructure, allowing developers to focus on building their apps without worrying about server management or complex infrastructure setup.

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🗞 Issue 13 / 14.06.2023


📄 An Introduction to Debugging Tools and Approaches for Node

An informative primer on debugging, from simple things like using IDE extensions to highlight potential problems or, yes, console logging, through to using the V8 inspector and debugging via Chrome.

CRAIG BUCKLER


📄 Node v20.3.0 (Current) Released

On paper, it's a minor release, but a libuv upgrade (the library that provides Node with its async I/O functionality) introduces significant performance improvements on Linux, `AbortSignal.any()` has been introduced.

MICHAËL ZASSO


📄 Designing a Scalable Backend in Node

Three arbitrary scaling challenges for Node apps examined through the lens of a hypothetical personal budgeting app that has to interact with third party APIs.

NATE ANDERSON


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🛠 CODE & TOOLS


🌎 tz-lookup 8.0: Fast Time Zone Estimations from Latitude and Longitude

“This package trades speed and size for accuracy.” At 10x smaller and 20x faster than node-geo-tz, this might be accurate enough for your timezone inference use cases.

MATTHEW MCEACHEN


🔩 Traf: Find Truly Affected Packages in Monorepos

If you’re waiting on CI tasks due to a small package update in your monorepo, this is for you. Traf optimizes your monorepo dev process by finding affected dependencies and selectively triggering builds and tests only when needed.

LEMONADE


🔩 WhatWG Node: WhatWG Standard API Packages for Node

Using the ponyfill approach (nothing is patched or modified under the hood) you can use the Fetch standard both in a client or server adapter context, as well as the DOM Events Standard.

ARDA TANRIKULU

When someone says ChatGPT will replace Programmers I think of this...

Art Beckett

2023 Developer Survey

In May 2023 over 90,000 developers responded to our annual survey about how they learn and level up, which tools they're using, and which ones they want.

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🗞 Issue 14 / 14.06.2023


📄 Val Town: If GitHub Gists Could Run, and AWS Lambda Were Fun

I’ve been keeping an eye on this for a few months and it’s a fascinating idea rapidly turning into a useful service that's going places. You write bite size chunks of JavaScript and Val Town runs them in a sandbox, lets them call each other, lets you schedule them, or serves them up over HTTP. It’s smart and worth a look.

STEVE KROUSE


📄 Melange 1.0: Compile OCaml / ReasonML to JavaScript

Having started life as a fork of BuckleScript, Melange now pitches itself as a mature tool for compiling OCaml (a popular functional programming language) to efficient and readable JavaScript.

ANTONIO NUNO MONTEIRO
HONGBO ZHANG ET AL.


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ARTICLES & TUTORIALS


📄An Introduction to Debugging Tools and Approaches for Node

An informative primer on debugging, from simple things like using IDE extensions to highlight potential problems or, yes, console logging, through to using the V8 inspector and debugging via Chrome.

CRAIG BUCKLER


📄Before Your Next Frontend Pull Request, Use This Checklist

Avoid common mistakes in pull requests with this checklist, covering areas from minimizing bundle size and ensuring accessibility to using semantic markup and keeping code clean.

NINA TORGUNAKOVA


🎬 Nuxt Explained in 100 Seconds

One of Fireship’s typical fast-paced high level roundups. This time they cover Nuxt, the Vue-oriented app framework.

FIRESHIP


📄How To Build Server-Side Rendered (SSR) Svelte Apps with SvelteKit

SvelteKit is a framework for building apps using Svelte. This post walks through creating a simple job board with it and deploying on Netlify.

SRIRAM THIAGARAJAN

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