Matteo write TypeScript and other Adventures in Nodeland - Issue #14
Hi Everyone! What happened in Nodeland this week? Me writing some typescript, more videos and React 18!
I want to start this week by celebrating a pull request that I wrote for Undici. I was reading a bug related to our types…. and I knew how to fix it. It clicked, and I jumped into Vim straight away as I wanted to practice my TypeScript. After a couple of iterations, I landed on the Interceptable type. All that time spent helping and reviewing the TypeScript work by Ethan, Igor and many others helped a lot. Thank you, folks.
If you are interested in the PR, here it is:
I would also like to celebrate the work my friend James Sumners did in Knock recently: https://github.com/knockaway/sqsiphon. It’s great to see a company starting to publish their tools as Open Source. I plan to use this library soon.
Another one of my 7-year-old modules came back!
OpenJS World Videos!
All OpenJS World videos are available on the Foundation youtube channel at https://youtube.com/c/OpenJSFoundation! Here are the videos of me talking about Fastify and Undici:
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NearForm
James Snell and I have a motto: “If you are using promises, you are using them wrong”. James recently wrote a long article summarizing all the knowledge we presented in the “Broken Promises” workshop series. It’s a must-read if you are using Node.js:
We have been recently featured on the AWS blog for our work on the COVID-19 contact tracing app that we did last year, and how serverless technologies helped us deliver quickly.
We used a mixed approach with Fargate+ECS and Lambdas, building on top of Fastify and PostgreSQL. Read up:
If you are interested in working on this stack, we are growing fast and we are recruiting for all possible roles: https://www.nearform.com/careers/.
Noteworthy releases
I’m really impressed by the initial release of React 18 because of its new Suspense-based Server-Side-Rendering implementation. It promises to yield significant latency and throughput improvements and I can’t wait to test it out!
Thanks
As usual, I would like to thank every single one of you for keeping up with my rumbles! Thanks!