Three Developer Articles that Interested Me This Week — 3/14/2022

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention.

Design: #noFramework

I’m going to be kind here and just say that I was unpersuaded by the argument not to use a front-end framework and to build it all yourself from scratch. I won’t talk about what a colossally bad idea this is.

Debate in JavaScript Community Over Proposed Types Syntax

I’m a big fan of Typescript because it is basically Javascript with types and I’m a big typed-language guy. (I was raised on Delphi.) Interestingly, the proposal is basically to have type annotations be completely ignored at runtime, like comments. This allows tooling and linters to provide feedback based on types. This is different from Typescript with has a compiler that enforces the type system. I generally like the idea but will stick with Typescript.

What is Debouncing?

Okay, so I have to confess that I’ve heard the term “debouncing”, but had no idea what it was. Now I do thanks to this clear, simple, and lovely explanation.