In defense of the modern web

"I expect I'll annoy everyone with this post: the anti-JavaScript crusaders, justly aghast at how much of the stuff we slather onto modern websites; the people arguing the web is a broken platform for interactive applications anyway and we should start over; React users; the old guard with their arti"

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Second-guessing the modern web

"The emerging norm for web development is to build a React single-page application, with server rendering. The two key elements of this architecture are something like: This idea has really swept the internet."

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Avoiding Memory Leaks in NodeJS: Best Practices for Performance

"Memory leaks are something every developer has to eventually face. They are common in most languages, even if the language automatically manages memory for you. Memory leaks can result in problems such as application slowdowns, crashes, high latency, and so on."

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CSS for internationalisation

"I’ve come across people who do not think that CSS is related to internationalisation at all, but if you think about it, internationalisation is more than translating the content on your site into multiple languages and calling it a day."

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env()

"The env() CSS function can be used to insert the value of a user agent-defined environment variable into your CSS, in a similar fashion to the var() function and custom properties."

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Cloud Design Patterns

"These design patterns are useful for building reliable, scalable, secure applications in the cloud. Each pattern describes the problem that the pattern addresses, considerations for applying the pattern, and an example based on Microsoft Azure."

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Strangler pattern

"Incrementally migrate a legacy system by gradually replacing specific pieces of functionality with new applications and services."

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Error when pulling warning: suboptimal pack - out of memory

"warning: suboptimal pack - out of memory Compressing objects: 100% (10955/10955), done. fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 827101023 bytes) error: failed to run repack How would I go about fixing this?"

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Monitor your web page's total memory usage with performance.measureMemory()

"Learn how to measure memory usage of your web page in production to detect regressions. Browsers manage the memory of web pages automatically. Whenever a web page creates an object, the browser allocates a chunk of memory "under the hood" to store the object."

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Understanding (all) JavaScript module formats and tools

"JavaScript language was initially invented for simple form manipulation, with no built-in features like module or namespace. In years, tons of terms, patterns, libraries, syntax, and tools are invented to modularize JavaScript."

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