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Deno Loves WebAssembly

The much anticipated Deno project has finally reached v1.0! Deno is created by the original developer of Node.js, Ryan Dahl, to address what he called “10 things I regret about Node.js”. Without an NPM-like system to incorporate native modules, how do we write server-side applications that require native performance on Deno? WebAssembly is here to help!

Michael Yuan
on Jul 15, 2020
Web Development

Elm in Action - Book Review and Q&A with Richard Feldman

The book Elm in Action by Richard Feldman provides a gentle, thorough introduction to Elm for web developers, and walks them through the creation of a full-featured photo-browsing application. Elm is a purely functional language for creating web applications. Elm touts the absence of runtime errors, a sound type system with strong type inference and delightful developer experience.

Richard Feldman Bruno Couriol
on Jul 08, 2020
Web Development

Crank, a New Front-End Framework with Baked-In Asynchronous Rendering - Q&A with Brian Kim

Brian Kim introduces Crank.js, a new front-end framework with baked-in asynchronous rendering. The framework orchestrates front-end applications' tasks and rendering with standard asynchronous generators. Crank strives to be Just JavaScript, and reduces the number of concepts that need to be acquired to write a front-end application. Gone are proprietary notions of asynchronous resources.

Brian Kim Bruno Couriol
on Jun 08, 2020
Development

Extensible Effects in JavaScript for Fun and Profit - Q&A with William Heslam

Extensible effects, described by some as the right way to structure programs, are crossing over to JavaScript. Extensible effects at core provide a composable and flexible way to separate concerns, while allowing to redefine the implementation of those concerns at will. William Heslam explained what extensible effects are and the benefit of using them.

William Heslam Bruno Couriol
on Jun 01, 2020
Web Development

Interview with Node.js Technical Steering Committee Chair

Michael Dawson, active contributor to the Node.js project and chair of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee(TSC), and IBM Node.js community lead, joins us for a behind-the-scenes look at Node.js. The recent Node.js 14 release introduces improvements in Diagnostic Reporting, Internationalization, ES module loading, and an experimental Web Assembly System Interface.

Dylan Schiemann Michael Dawson
on May 19, 2020
Web Development

How to Use Encryption for Defense in Depth in Native and Browser Apps

Isaac Potoczny-Jones discusses the pros and cons of application-layer encryption. He covers the attack surface of application-layer encryption in the browser, how it is very different from native clients, and how WebCrypto helps.

Isaac Potoczny-Jones
on May 13, 2020
Web Development

Interview with Creator of Polypane, a Powerful Browser for Developers

Polypane is a powerful development web browser with many features to assist during the development of web applications and websites. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Polypane creator Kilian Valkhof to learn more about what Polypane is, the motivation behind it, the technology used, challenges in creating the product, future direction, and much more.

Dylan Schiemann Kilian Valkhof
on Apr 24, 2020
Web Development

How to Collect Pieces of Data

Pieces, a new JavaScript library I have created, takes these two problems of routing and page transitions and tackles them together. After all, they're both concerned with what happens when the app changes from one view to another. The idea is that the developer creates the individual pages and lets Pieces worry about everything involved in changing between them.

Martin Rixham
on Mar 24, 2020
Web Development

JavaScript and Web Development InfoQ Trends Report 2020

The web development space is always an interesting one for us, with new JavaScript projects launched almost daily. Trying to decide which ones to focus on and which ones to ignore is particularly challenging. Developers can learn and gather inspiration from interesting approaches even if they do not currently use them in their daily development efforts.

Dylan Schiemann Bruno Couriol
on Mar 12, 2020
Web Development

Functional UI (Framework-Free at Last)

Functional UI is a set of techniques which rely heavily on functional programming to develop user interface applications. While deceptively simple, functional UI techniques are surprisingly powerful. Functional UI directly reflects the application's specifications, allows developers to unit-test user scenarios, and UI frameworks become mere libraries. Framework-free at last!

Bruno Couriol
on Jan 15, 2020
Web Development

The Datum Data Binding Library

There has been an explosion of frameworks and libraries for making single page applications for the web. Angular, React, Vue and quite a few others have made it easier to develop on the web and helped fuel its growth as webapps have become more dynamic and interactive. Howeve,r there may still be room for other libraries and new ideas such as Datum, a new, simple data binding library.

Martin Rixham
on Jan 08, 2020
Emerging Technologies

Porting a Desktop Game Editor to the Browser with WebAssembly

Florian Rival, software engineer at Google and creator of the GDevelop game editor, discusses the lessons learnt from porting a native desktop game editor to the browser with WebAssembly. InfoQ interviewed Rival on the technical challenges encountered, the benefits derived from the port, and tips for developers thinking about porting desktop applications with WebAssembly.

Bruno Couriol Florian Rival
on Nov 09, 2019

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