The Post-Developer Era • Josh W. Comeau
Two years ago, in March 2023, I published a blog post called “The End of Front-End Development”. This was right after OpenAI released its GPT-4 showcase, and the general reaction…
Two years ago, in March 2023, I published a blog post called “The End of Front-End Development”. This was right after OpenAI released its GPT-4 showcase, and the general reaction…
Next.js 16 (beta) is now available. This early release provides access to the latest improvements to Turbopack, caching, and the Next.js architecture ahead of the stable release. Highlights for this…
Today we’re releasing React Native 0.74! This release adds Yoga 3.0, Bridgeless by default under the New Architecture, batched onLayout updates (New Architecture), and Yarn 3 as the default package…
Do you know about Progressive JPEGs? Here’s a nice explanation of what a Progressive JPEG is. The idea is that instead of loading the image top to bottom, the image…
Are you a Junior developer? If you answered yes: How do you know? Is it because your title is “Junior Developer?” Is it because your co-workers get all the more…
Stop fixing boilerplate. Let AI do the boring parts — scaffold, code, review, ship. Here’s the problem nobody talks about: most AI coding assistants are wasted on repos that weren’t…
If you have played around with view transition a bunch, you may have noticed that 3D transitions between two pages (i.e., cross-document view transitions) don’t seem to work. That is,…
There’s a moment in almost every usability session where a participant pauses at the login screen, types something, and glances up: checking whether they’re “doing it right.” That pause is…
In an ideal world, you’d inherit a product the way you’d inherit a tidy apartment. The product would come with clear documentation and a clean history of why each decision…
May 3, 2023 by Dan Abramov, Sophie Alpert, Rick Hanlon, Sebastian Markbåge, and Andrew Clark We’d like to offer the React community an option to adopt individual new features as…