Not long ago, good design was considered nice to have, but non-essential to a product or company. In today’s market, however, good design has become a commodity.

Intern is complete JavaScript test stack, with support for the entire testing lifecycle. Intern 4 keeps many of the internals of Intern 3, but updates the external interface and usage model to better fit into modern workflows.

TypeScript 2.6 was released on the 31st of October. It is a moderately sized release like many of the other of the more rapid releases from the TypeScript team over the past year.

Whenever you start working with a new programming language or framework, you need to learn a new collection of error messages and how to resolve them. Sometimes those messages are obvious, and others only become obvious as you gain experience with the new technology.

It is like the old proverb, “It takes a village to raise a web framework.” As we explored in the previous post, choosing a framework goes beyond the technical features of a framework and this is certainly true when it comes to the wider community, which includes considerations like licensing, how open the framework is, and where to turn for education and support. While each web framework we have been discussing is an open source framework, there is a wide spectrum of what that actually means and how it affects the use and future development of a framework.

Many modern web applications depend on JavaScript. When the complexity of your JavaScript increases, so does the maintenance cost.

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