🤓 #293: Type-Level TypeScript

UNIX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity

                October 3, 2022

            🤓 #293: Type-Level TypeScript

                npm package best practices, SVG new syntax experiment, Lambda w/ TypeScript, .then() & Async/Await, Wordpress in WebAssembly, TypeScript Hex Strings

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                  "UNIX is simple.  It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity"

                  — 
                  Dennis Ritchie,
                    Computer scientist and inventor of the C language

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Type-Level TypeScript

Last week I learned about some advanced features of TypeScript and I was blown away. Some of them are crazy; basically, the type system is a Turing-complete language. If you are into TypeScript you might enjoy this advanced course!

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Best practices for creating a modern npm package

If you are creating a new package for Node.js/JavaScript you should definitely check out this comprehensive tutorial. It explores step by step what you need to do to create an npm package using modern best practices (as of 2022).

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Experimenting a new syntax to write SVG

The CSS doodle project proposes a new interesting (and definitely more succinct) way of defining the content of an SVG image. I found it awesome to read, but I haven't tried authoring an SVG with it just yet! What do you think?

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How to Build AWS Lambdas with TypeScript

Do you like AWS Lambda but also like to write code in TypeScript? I have to admit it's not yet obvious how to author and deploy Lambda code with TypeScript. In this first part of a four-part series, you can start to learn everything there's to know about this topic!

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Why You Shouldn't Mix Promise.then() With Async/Await Syntax

Mixing Promise.then() with async/await syntax is a recipe for bugs. Here's why you shouldn't do it and what to do instead.

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Client-side WebAssembly WordPress with no server

This early demo runs a full WordPress directly in the browser without a PHP server! While it isn’t fully stable yet, it is a major breakthrough that could transform not just WordPress but the web industry as a whole!

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Hex strings validation in TypeScript

If you liked the first article in this issue, this one provides a specific example of how you can use the TypeScript type system to be able to validate strings that should contain only hex characters (specifically to encode hex colors).

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