8 Tips for Converting That Big Project to TypeScript
TypeScript has many benefits for teams when it comes to writing neat, comprehensible, and reusable code. It’s no surprise that more than...
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- Jul 14, 2021
- 4 min
Auto-Autocomplete: Generating Docs and Autocomplete at Scale
In the past few months, the Velo by Wix team upgraded our large-scale open-source documentation and code completion system. It allows...
- Mar 24, 2021
- 12 min
Performance, Bundles and Headaches: Optimizing Your Code, E10: Full Transcript
When members of his analytics team began noticing long load times in the Wix Dashboard, originally, Eyal Eizenberg wasn’t quite sure why....
- Mar 7, 2021
- 6 min
Custom React Hook: When Software Design Meets React Hooks
Photo by Damir Spanic Hire on Unsplash Encapsulate fetch calls, logic, caching, and component state, all inside a custom React Hook...
- Dec 7, 2020
- 4 min
Is Stencil a Better React?
Photo by Josh Calabrese on Unsplash Intro Recently I went looking for ways to code web components and found this great post - “All the...
- Nov 1, 2020
- 5 min
Interlude: Rethinking the JavaScript Pipeline Operator
Photo by Martin Adams on Unsplash My latest two blog posts were about implementing a small, lightweight iteration library in JavaScript....
- Sep 29, 2020
- 4 min
Introducing Repluggable - Solving The Dependency Model Challenge with Micro Frontends and Contracts
Intro Introducing Repluggable - our new library that implements inversion of control for front end applications, and makes development of...
- Sep 13, 2020
- 15 min
How Svelte Beats the Odds, E04: Full Transcript
There's a blazingly fast web framework out there, one that's easy to learn and battle-tested in real world applications. And no, we’re...
- May 25, 2020
- 4 min
Building the Best Web Gallery, and Why the Hell It Was so Hard
My name is Guy Sopher, I’m the lead developer and co-creator of the Pro Gallery. I’ve overseen its growth from a bold idea to the...
- May 17, 2020
- 7 min
A Promise of a Bright Future With Async Iterators, Generators, and Pipes, Part 1
Photo byTom Parkes on Unsplash Abstract In my previous blog post Breaking Chains with Pipelines in Modern JavaScript, I explained how...
- Nov 7, 2019
- 8 min
Breaking Chains with Pipelines in Modern JavaScript
JavaScript provides a growing list of iteration methods, which can be used to manipulate array content in a functional manner. However,...
- Sep 2, 2019
- 7 min
Trim the Fat From Your Bundles Using Webpack Analyzer & React Lazy/Suspense
As client side applications become more complex, their bundle sizes become bigger and bigger. Devices and regions with slower connections...
- May 26, 2019
- 4 min
Build Your Own webpack in 30 Minutes
It’s not every day that we get to see the inner workings of such a fundamental tool like a bundler. These workhorses help to bridge the...
- Apr 22, 2019
- 4 min
Get Slim Bundles with the Import-Cost Extension
Bloated websites and web applications have become an epidemic of the modern web. While this is not much of an issue for users with...
- Nov 6, 2018
- 4 min
Front-end Platform Builders: Sharing our Insights With the Community
Participating in meetups and conferences is often the pinnacle of being part of a developer community and a great way to stay up to date...
- Dec 27, 2017
- 5 min
How to Test Your Redux App
[ironic tone] We all know that Redux is about functional programming, and when you have it functional — it is testable, right? You just...
- Jul 22, 2016
- 2 min
Build Your Own Chrome Extension
The Services Team at Wix uses JIRA as our Scrum board, which is displayed on a big TV in our team’s room. We love JIRA because it’s...
- Nov 23, 2015
- 4 min
Fluent JavaScript
It is not enough for code to simply work. Good code is meant to be easy to understand, and it is much easier to understand code that is...
- Aug 17, 2015
- 1 min
Rekuire | a module for NodeJS
Just wanted to share a nice piece of code I created.. During my recent experience with NodeJs, there was one thing that bugged me the...
- May 8, 2015
- 1 min
Wix guest appearance on JavaScript Jabber
Last week our very own Amit Kaufman (Editor Manager) and Avi Marcus (Editor Client Architect) appeared for a guest appearance on the...
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