Last week we shared what Alex MacArthur likes about Astro. This week Astro is back with a new major version! What's on the menu: automatic type-safety for Markdown & MDX, Hybrid Rendering, HMR, and more... I know I can't wait to try it out!
 

TypeScript 5.0 beta is out! In this video, Matt Pocock explains some cool additions to this next release. This version packs a long list of changes. Out-of-the-box decorators, multiple tsconfig files, and more...
 

A follow-up post to digging into the performances of JS tooling by Marvin Hagemeister. This time, he's having a look at module resolution and ended up gaining more than 30% perf improvement. An interesting read once again.

Rodauth is a Ruby authentication that is not tied to Rails, meaning you can use it outside of a Rails app (which is not the case for all existing authentication solutions). In the beginning of 2020, Janko Marohnić decided to try and make Rodauth Rails-compliant too... and that was not an easy task. He goes over all it took to get to a satisfying result.
 

If you've worked on a Rails application, you know that Rails brings multiple ways to validate the data associated to a model, along with ways to validate params passed to a controller action. Maybe you already heard of dry-schema, a fast and well-regarded gem that does just that... and a bit more. Dive into some examples with Abiodun Ajibade.
 

I'll be honest with you: at first, I didn't think a blog post about primary key format in Postgres would be so interesting. But it was! It's diving into the different kinds of unique identifiers, the history and how they relate to each other, some benchmark and advice on how to choose them... truly a great read!

When you see repeating code in a PR do you have a knee jerk reaction to yell "DRY"? In this short blog post, it is explained why repeating yourself might actually be a good thing. 

On technical debt

 

On the importance of pull request discipline

This article by Julien Tanay, an engineering manager, shares insights and lessons learned from Doctolib's journey in building and maintaining a comprehensive design system team. It's a great read for anyone interested in learning more about the process of creating a dedicated design system team and the benefits it can bring to an organization, especially in the healthcare industry.
 

This article by Jacques Trouillet, a product designer at Doctolib, explains the process and considerations of designing digital products for specialist healthcare providers, such as doctors and hospitals. The article discusses the specific needs and requirements of these specialists, as well as the challenges and solutions in creating user-friendly and efficient product for them.