Slack engineering·4yRecommend API
Recommend API allows us to quickly bootstrap new recommendation use cases behind an API which is easily accessible to engineers at Slack. These recommenders reuse a common set of infrastructure for every part of the recommendation engine. This has allowed us to deliver a number of different recommendation models across the product, driving improved customer experience.
Hacker News·4yYes, I can connect to a DB in CSS
A new set of APIs give your browser the power to control CSS via its own Object Model in Javascript. This means that you can make custom CSS styles, add custom properties, and so on. The CSS Paint Worklet5 allows you to 'paint' on an element, and have the browser treat it as an image in CSS.
Better Programming·4yGoodbye Electron. Hello Tauri, A Rust-powered Backend Framework
Electron is a Rust-powered Backend Framework paired with a React frontend to offer an awesome browser-less experience. Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms — using virtually any frontend framework in existence. For completeness, you can find the entire code base for my community project on my Gitlab.
Josh W Comeau·4yMy Wonderful HTML Email Workflow
MJML is a responsive email framework from Mailjet. It essentially provides a layer of abstraction over raw HTML. The MJML language provides a set of common tags you can use to structure your email. As long as you follow the MJML conventions, your email should render properly across all email clients.
Dev Genius·4yHow to write maintainable JavaScript code in 2023 — Web or Node.js
Using TypeScript everywhere is best suited for JS developers with at least medium experience. Don’t be scared of TypeScript. Use prototypes and/or MVPs before implementing complex features. Use ESLint and Prettier together and you can focus on what your code does. If you use prettier, it will join multi-line breaks.
Pointer·4yJarred-Sumner/bun: Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler and package manager – all in one.
Bun is a fast & easy-to-use tool that embeds JavaScriptCore, which tends to be faster and more memory efficient than more popular engines like V8. Instead of 1,000 node_modules for development, you only need bun. Join bun’s Discord for help and have a look at things that don't work yet.
Web Tools Weekly·4yCSS Tools, Databases, JSON, SVG
There are a number of different ways to remove empty items from an array in JavaScript. To remove blank values alone is something more specific, but there are a few ways to do it. You can find all the above examples in this CodePen. Now on to this week's tools!
Changelog·4yReal world application
Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. The Electron app is written in plain-old HTML and JavaScript. The Tauri app installer is around 2,5MB (!!!), while the Electron install is around ~85MB. Tauri has many security features built-in by default. You can even explicitly enable or disable certain APIs.
gitconnected·3yUltimate 10 Stages to Master Backend Development
Backend development refers to server-side programming in which a developer creates application architecture and business logic to process and store the data and output useful information. There are multiple backend programming languages, frameworks, and stacks like JavaScript, Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, etc.
gitconnected·4yREST and the future of APIs
REST is still solid, no matter what anyone says, but it is definitely geared toward browser-based clients. If you use pretty much any non-REST solution you will either lose some valuable functionality that comes built-in to web browsers or will need to write a ton of JavaScript code. GraphQL is definitely a generally popular choice and makes a lot of sense if you’re primarily dealing with the rendering of data relations.
Community Picks·3yArchitecting an API Backend
An API’s architecture often mimics how it is maintained and what the service accomplishes. An API may tap into various services to support its own backend, making the architecture stack deceptively complex. A similar ecosystem may exist fueling the components that make up an API itself.
freeCodeCamp·4yWhat Backend Should You Use for React?
In every React project, we manage data on the client through state and user interactions. Many apps are not possible without data that comes from the backend. Backend consists of two parts: A place to store our data and a method for retrieving the data. What type of backend you choose depends upon some key features of your data.
Hacker News·4ypocketbase/pocketbase: Open Source realtime backend in 1 file
PocketBase is an open source Go framework/toolkit that enables you to build your own custom app specific business logic. It embeds a realtime subscriptions database with backed-in files and users management. It has a simple REST-ish API and comes with unit and integration tests.
Quastor Daily·3yHow Tinder Built Their Own API Gateway
Tinder is the most popular dating app in the world with over 75 million monthly active users. The app is owned by the Match Group, a conglomerate that also owns Match.com, OkCupid, Hinge and over 40 other dating apps. Tinder’s backend consists of over 500 microservices, which the components are - Routes.
Community Picks·4yThe Guide to Modern Data Architecture
This is an updated version of a post we originally published in 2020. We argue that core data processing systems have remained relatively stable over the past year, while supporting tools and applications have proliferated rapidly. We explore the hypothesis that platforms are beginning to emerge in the data ecosystem, and that this helps explain the particular patterns we’re seeing.
Hashnode·4yBackend Development Is Not Hard
Backend development is difficult, boring, and very mathematical. We are going to create our own web server using "express" Express is a Node.js web application framework that makes making web applications easier. The goal of this article is to make backend development less intimidating for folks thinking to start learning backend.
freeCodeCamp·4yHow to Write Good API Documentation
API documentation is a written guide stating the functions of the API, how to integrate it into your program, and use cases for the API. It should contain some technical terms, but should still be readable and easy to understand. The goal is for everyone to work together to produce documentation that fully explains the API and guides users without confusion.
ByteByteGo·3yEP 38: Where do we cache data?
This week’s system design refresher: ByteByteGo Facebook page What is OSI Model? What tech stack is commonly used for microservices? We’ve launched a Facebook page and want our content to be more accessible. The diagram illustrates where we cache data in a typical architecture.
Hacker News·4yan open-source GitHub Copilot server
FauxPilot is an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot. It uses the SalesForce CodeGen models inside of NVIDIA's Triton Inference Server with the FasterTransformer backend. If you have two NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPUs, you should be able to run the 6B model by putting fauxpilot-triton-1. The container image is governed by the NVIDIA Deep Learning Container License. Don't use it.
Hacker News·4yThings You Should Know About Databases
Indexes are a data structure that helps decrease the look-up time of requested data. Indexes achieve this with the additional costs of storage, memory, and keeping it up to date. The main difference between a solid-state drive (SSD) and hard disk drive (HDD) is how data is stored and accessed.
