TLDR Web Dev

TLDR WEB DEV 2023-04-26

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01ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

FEATUREVISOR

Featurevisor is a solution for managing your feature flags and remote config. It introduces a workflow that's fully git-based, where configuration is stored as YAMLs and changes are reviewed and merged via pull requests. The workflow results in datafiles (JSON files) that contain feature configurations, which can then be fetched by your applications and evaluated using Featurevisor SDKs.

github.comGitHub repository

PHASELLM

PhaseLLM is a framework designed to help manage and test LLM-driven experiences, such as products, content, or other experiences that product and brand managers might be driving for their users. PhaseLLM makes it incredibly easy to plug-and-play LLMs and evaluate them against each other.

github.comGitHub repository

SUPERGLUE

Superglue is a React Redux starter and library designed to complement classic Rails. You can enjoy the benefits of Redux state management and React components without giving up the productivity of Rails form helpers, UJS, tag helpers, cookie auth, and more.

thoughtbot.github.ioTool

02OPINIONS & ADVICE

EXPLAINING TECH'S NOTION OF TALENT SCARCITY

The tech industry has a notion that there is a scarcity for “top talent”. The article takes a closer look into what people and companies in the industry really mean by this, showing that each employer has different needs and defines “top talent” differently.

nadia.xyz10 min read

CANDIDATES

This article argues why live coding interviews are a terrible proxy of accessing candidates’ abilities. It dives into various reasonings, such as the emphasis of speed, irrelevant domain knowledge, and the application of unnecessary pressure. The author also suggests alternative interview methods that are potentially better than live coding.

garrettdimon.com10 min read

PLACES TO WORK

W. Edwards Deming is known as one of the leading management thinkers and the author of the “Deming Philosophy”. His rules for management often include being data-driven, but the author here lays out the ways being solely data-driven can be counterproductive. Instead, policies must also be humanistic in nature in order to be maximally effective.

commoncog.com7 min read

03LAUNCHES & TOOLS

THE URL IS THE ULTIMATE GLOBAL STATE MANAGEMENT TOOL

The Web History API is the only state management tool that's built into the browser, and supported by every browser. It doesn't require any libraries or frameworks, and it outperforms every other state management tool. The more your URL reflects the data that needs to be loaded, the more you can optimize your data fetching strategy. This is a detailed guide to using the URL effectively as a state management tool.

jacobparis.com5 min read

USING REACTIVE VARIABLES WITH APOLLO CLIENT

Managing state in modern web applications is crucial, and GraphQL's Apollo Client offers a solution for state management in client-side applications. Reactive variables are a powerful tool for managing local state within a JavaScript framework application, allowing for greater freedom and control over how to manage an application's data and state. With Apollo Client, reactive variables can be updated automatically, providing seamless, real-time updates to an app's UI without manual intervention.

blog.logrocket.com5 min read

04MISCELLANEOUS