Plain-English explainers of the core tools and concepts every developer runs into.
Bun is a JavaScript runtime, package manager, bundler, and test runner in a single binary written in Zig. It's also the fastest thing to happen to JavaScript tooling in years — and it runs your existing Node.js code.
In 2018, Ryan Dahl stood at JSConf EU and apologized for Node.js. Then he built Deno to fix the things he got wrong. Here's what changed, what the security model actually looks like, and whether switching is worth it.
Node.js took the V8 engine out of Chrome and ran it on a server. That sounds like a small change. What it actually did was flip how developers think about I/O — and spawn an ecosystem of two million packages.
TypeScript is JavaScript with types. That's the short answer. The real answer involves a friend who was right about something I didn't want to hear, a production bug that types would have caught immediately, and the slow realization that the compiler was never the enemy.
TypeScript is JavaScript with types. That's the short answer. The real answer involves a friend who was right about something I didn't want to hear, a production bug that types would have caught immediately, and the slow realization that the compiler was never the enemy.
JavaScript is the programming language that runs the web. Every interactive element you see on a website – dropdown menus, form validations, dynamic content updates, animations – is powered by
