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Since John Allsopp mentioned the View Transitions API at Web Directions Code 2023 in Melbourne, I've been closely tracking its progress. Experimenting with it in Angular Spotify has been a joy. While my PR is still a work in progress for a single-page app like Angular Spotify (https://lnkd.in/gY6zQnBi)), it's exciting to see the View Transitions API advancing to a W3C Candidate Recommendation. Moreover, it now supports multi-page apps (MPAs), with the draft for cross-document navigation currently in public working draft status. This breakthrough means transitioning between pages in traditional multi-page apps, including those built with server-side rendering frameworks like ASP.NET MVC, PHP, Ruby, or static site generators such as Jekyll or Hugo, feels incredible with just @view-transition and view-transition-name in CSS! I've detailed my experiments with the View Transitions API for cross-documents. Check it out 👉 https://lnkd.in/gkRprFxt

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If you're a C# dev wanting to contribute to a great product and join a truly sick team I've been curating for the past few months let's chat. From CEO, CTO to Architect you will love the folks you're working for and they will unleash you. Product is a game-changer! Need a great C#/BE so this team can cook!!! 👨‍🍳 *US/GC only & continental U.S. is a must. #Csharp #dotnetcore #dotnet #backendengineer #rabbitMQ #postgreSQL #redis #docker #angular #typescript

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Making the leap from a developer role to a senior/engineering manager can be both exciting and challenging. If you’re considering this career move, here are some essential steps and insights to help you on your journey: Enhance Your Leadership Skills: Start by taking on more responsibility within your team. Volunteer to lead projects, mentor junior developers, and facilitate team meetings. Building these leadership skills will set the foundation for a managerial role. Understand the Bigger Picture: As a senior developer/manager, you'll need to align your team's work with the company's goals. Learn more about your company’s strategy, product roadmap, and how different departments collaborate. This holistic understanding will help you make more informed decisions. Develop Strong Communication Skills: Effective communication is key to management. Practice clear and concise communication, active listening, and empathy. These skills will help you manage team dynamics, resolve conflicts, and foster a collaborative environment. Learn Project Management: Familiarize yourself with project management methodologies like Agile, Scrum, or Kanban. Understanding how to manage timelines, resources, and deliverables is crucial for ensuring your team’s success. Seek Feedback and Mentorship: Reach out to current engineering managers or leaders in your organization for advice and mentorship. Their insights can provide valuable guidance and help you navigate the transition smoothly. Focus on Team Growth: A great manager is invested in their team’s development. Learn how to identify strengths and areas for improvement, provide constructive feedback, and support your team members' career growth. Build a Strong Technical Foundation: While you’ll be focusing more on management, maintaining a solid technical foundation is important. Stay updated with industry trends and continue honing your technical skills to earn your team's respect and trust. Embrace a Growth Mindset: Transitioning to a managerial role is a continuous learning process. Embrace challenges, be open to feedback, and continuously seek ways to improve your leadership abilities. #CareerTransition #Leadership #TechLeadership #ProjectManagement #TeamDevelopment #ContinuousLearning

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Great article from Adapptor on the differences between Flutter & React Native. Depending on whether you are building out an app from scratch or updating an existing native app this has some valid points to factor in ⬇ #Flutter #ReactNative #CrossPlatform #MobileApps #iOS #Android

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I've just started reading this book. - Are there Staff engineers in outsourcing?😨🕵️ - Do you feel like a Staff engineer? - How do you know if you're operating at the Staff level? What's a Staff engineer? Only right answers 😅 #staff #staffengineer #softwareengineering

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Leveraging NSwag Studio for Angular Client-Side Development with OpenAPI Specifications In modern web development, integrating backend services with frontend applications is crucial for seamless functionality. NSwag Studio is a powerful tool for generating client-side code for Angular applications based on OpenAPI specifications, ensuring synchronization between frontend and backend and reducing development errors. NSwag Studio simplifies creating TypeScript clients for Angular by using an API's OpenAPI specification. This specification serves as a contract detailing available endpoints, parameters, and expected responses. NSwag Studio then generates typesafe client services, automating repetitive tasks and allowing developers to focus on core functionalities. Key benefits of using NSwag Studio include: Typesafe API calls reducing runtime errors. Automatic generation of service methods for API endpoints. Easy customization to fit project requirements. Support for various authentication mechanisms, including JWT tokens. To get started, developers install NSwag Studio, provide the API's OpenAPI specification URL, configure generation settings, and integrate the generated Angular service into their application. In summary, NSwag Studio is a robust solution for Angular developers, automating client-side code generation from OpenAPI specifications, and bridging the gap between backend APIs and Angular applications. #NSwag #angular #http #typescript #javascript #apis

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🚀 Key Insights from a Mid-level Developer 🚀 Embarking on my journey as a mid-level developer, I've distilled the most impactful lessons into six essential tips. 🌟 #DeveloperInsights #CareerGrowth #SoftwareDev #SoftwareEngineers

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Well-written comparison analysis when to choose between Flutter and React Native. In short, if you have an existing React web app or you’re porting a native app, React Native can provide an edge. When building a greenfield enterprise app or an MVP, Flutter is probably the best bet.

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I've found a really useful library you can use with React that can be used to help respond to different types of gestures like pinching and dragging: https://lnkd.in/gwVmn62F Sometimes you don't want your web application to respond the way that the operating system normally would, and maybe you want only certain elements on the page to utilize certain gestures. Using this library makes it really easy to bind gesture events to specific elements on a page and give you control over how your application responds!

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One of the many important skills of a Senior Frontend Engineer is having the ability to identify when a stakeholder's request IS NOT a frontend task. Too often we shove business logic to client side code when it should actually be done server side. This usually occurs because non-technical - and sometime even technical - stakeholders experience the entire product via the frontend. So it becomes the immediate assumption that any updates to the product should also be done on the frontend. Imagine the frontend is a window into your garden. There are two ways make the wall in your garden look blue. You could change the window to have blue tinted glass, or you could paint the wall blue like a normal sane logical person would. Know that just because you can do something in your domain to solve a problem, doesn't mean that your domain is the right place to solve that problem. #SoftwareEngineering #FrontendDevelopment

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Just experienced the magic of Supabase's real-time database - it's like coding on autopilot! 🚀 🔥 Supercharge your app development with Supabase: the open-source Firebase alternative that delivers real-time database, auth, and storage - all in one powerful package! 👀 Looking for alternatives? - Firebase - Convex #Supabase #WebDev #OpenSource #RealTimeDB

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"Code duplication increases the risk of errors and mistakes by hindering maintainability." - Andrew Cairns, https://lnkd.in/gfSHcz_f Oh yes. I have some thoughts.... Code duplication isn't just a minor inconvenience—it’s a major risk that can destabilize your entire codebase. Copying and pasting code for a quick fix might seem like a good idea at the moment, but it leads to a fragile, error-prone system. When you duplicate code, you’re creating multiple points of failure. If a bug appears in one place, you need to hunt it down and fix it everywhere it appears. This isn't just inefficient; it dramatically increases the chances of missing a spot, leading to inconsistencies and new errors. Every piece of duplicated code is another place where bugs can hide and multiply. Maintaining a codebase riddled with duplicates is a nightmare. Each time you need to update or refactor, you have to ensure that every instance of the duplicated code is changed. This tedious process can lead to significant overhead, making it difficult to keep the codebase clean and up-to-date. Moreover, developers new to the project may find it challenging to understand why the same code exists in multiple places, which can slow down onboarding and collaboration. A codebase full of duplications is fragile. Changes in one part can have unforeseen impacts on other parts, making the system harder to understand and predict. This brittleness means that even minor updates can have catastrophic effects, leading to a lack of confidence in making changes and slower development cycles. From my own experience, duplicating code led to more headaches and a fragile codebase. Every minor update turned into a scavenger hunt, ensuring all duplicates were changed. Inevitably, some instances got missed, causing new issues. The time saved by copying and pasting code was quickly outweighed by the time spent fixing the problems it created. Ignoring code duplication isn’t just a technical oversight—it’s a disservice to our customers. They expect reliable, high-quality software. By not adhering to best practices like reducing code duplication, we erode their trust. Customers rely on us to handle these complexities so they don’t have to worry about them. Delivering a product plagued by avoidable errors and instability reflects poorly on our professionalism and competence. Avoiding code duplication is crucial for maintaining a robust and maintainable codebase. It’s not just about clean code; it’s about delivering quality software and upholding the trust our customers place in us. Don’t let the quick fix today become the big problem tomorrow. Keep it clean, keep it maintainable, and focus on long-term reliability over short-term gains.

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HTMX is easy to add to existing projects: * Simple web page embed * Add directly in HTML * Library, not framework This means it's easy to add onto an existing MPA and can even be used with a SPA since it doesn't dictate your app. HTMX in Production: #htmx #webdev

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First post in my Ruby concurrency series is up! "Your Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 1" The series starts off by discussing some common threading issues to look out for, and why they work the way they do in CRuby's internals 🧵. https://lnkd.in/em4Xe4xB

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🚀 Just published a new article on Medium! 📝 Explore Custom Debouncing and Throttling in JavaScript to optimise event handling and enhance performance. https://lnkd.in/gW42FW5G #JavaScript #WebDev #Debouncing #Throttling

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YAML is an instrument of the devil 🎷😈 Psyched to start using Structure Mode and ditch YAML!

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Angular 18, Kotlin’s New Compiler, Astro Adds React 19 Support https://lnkd.in/gfTxqiYr As of Wednesday, Angular 18 is available. The release “focused on polishing the work we shipped,” which involved graduating many of the new APIs to stable and addressing common developer requests, according to Google’s Angular Product and DevRel Lead Minko Gechev. It also offers experimental support for “one of the most desired roadmap projects: Zoneless change detection,” he wrote in this blog post about Angular 18. He called zoneless a core part of the evolution Angular has been going through. Zone.js is the library responsible for triggering Angular’s change detection. For years, Angular has been working on creating a way to use Angular that doesn’t rely on this library. This release includes the first experimental APIs for zoneless. The benefits for developers include improved composability for micro-frontends and interoperability with other frameworks; plus: Faster initial render and runtime; Smaller bundle size; Faster page loads; More readable stack traces; and Simpler debugging. The best way to use zoneless in your components is with signals, Gechev wrote, explaining how to do that. Version 18 also uses the same scheduler for zones apps and apps using zone.js with coalescing enabled, he continued. “To reduce the number of change detection cycles in new zone.js apps, we’ve also enabled zone coalescing by default,” Gechev wrote. “This behavior is enabled only for new applications because it can cause bugs in apps reliant on the previous change detection behavior. Coalescing reduces unnecessary change detection cycles and significantly improves performance for some applications.” The details were also covered in an Angular YouTube broadcast on Thursday. In other news, Angular has a new home for official developer documentation called Angular.dev. There are also interactive tutorials and a playground with examples. Improved search, refreshed guides and simplified navigation, he wrote. Vercel Prioritizes Spend on AI, Security Vercel held its Ship Conference in New York this week, where it detailed more about its plans to support artificial intelligence application development on the frontend. Among the announcements was a new tool for simplifying the creation of AI chatbot interfaces and the Vercel Web Application Firewall. The firewall is designed to provide security at the edge, and promises to reduce latency while “ensuring only legitimate users access your application,” the company stated. It deploys automatically on the Vercel platform, without additional configuration or integration. Vercel also is simplifying feature flags by allowing developers to override feature flags directly from the Vercel Toolbar. “This eliminates the need to switch tabs to log in to your external flag provider and is already improving workflows for companies like Notion and Leonardo.Ai,” the company noted. Ahead of the conference, the frontend cloud...

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Something I have seen lots of times on the business environment in LATAM, some big old companies are just catching up to modern tech and tendencies. You don’t have to implement it right away, but at least try to keep up and incrementally start integrating into your projects or just start experimenting so that when the times comes, you are prepared

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