Jennifer Fu’s Web Development Publications

Development series for React, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, node/npm, web frameworks, micro frontends, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and interview guides.

NodeJS / NPM

• An In-Depth Explanation of package.json’s Dependencies
• How to Upgrade Dependencies in package.json
• Write and Debug JavaScript With NodeJS
• How To Use NVM To Manage Node.js 21 and NPM 10
• 7 Major Features of Node.js 21
• 6 Major Features of Node.js 20
• 5 Features in npm 10
• Exploring New Features in npm 9

Node Alternatives

• 3 Ways To Use Bun With Create React App
• The Comprehensive Guide to Deno — An Alternative to Node
• Is Deno Ready for Primetime ? — Evaluation of Deno modules
• How To Use SQLite in Bun, Deno, and Node

Micro Frontends

• 5 Steps to Turn a Random React Application Into a Micro Front-End
• 3 Steps to Turn a Random React Application Into a Micro-Frontend Container
• Build Your Own Micro-Frontend Ecosystem
• You Don’t Have to Lose Optimization for Micro-Frontends
• 10 Decision Points for a Micro-Frontend Approach
• 6 Steps to Create a Multi-Version React Application
• Micro Frontends Using Webpack 5 Module Federation

React Tips

• React Best Practices 2022
• Experts Share The Most Common Mistakes That Developers Make and How to Avoid Them

React Core

• The Complete Guide to React 18
• 5 New Hooks in React 18
• 10 Fun Facts about Create React App
• An In-Depth Guide for Create React App 5 (CRA 5)
• To Be or Not to Be — Choosing between controlled and uncontrolled components in React
• What’s the Difference Between Synthetic React Events and JavaScript Events?
• Dynamic Import, Code Splitting, Lazy Loading, and Error Boundaries
• Complete Guide on React Error Boundary
• Everything You Want to Know About React Refs
• Everyone Can Build a Custom Hook
• How to Convert JavaScript Classes to React’s useReducer Hook
• Lodash: Create React App’s Built-in Library for Debounce and Throttle With Hooks
• Headless UI Components: A Journey With High Order Components, Render Props, and Custom Hooks

React Libraries

• A Step-by-Step Guide on React Router 6
• React Flow Builds Interactive Node-Based Graphs
• Recoil: A New State Management Library Moving Beyond Redux and the Context API
• Understanding the Ant Design System — a UI Design for Enterprises
• How To Use Ant Forms in Your Web App
• An Introduction to Ant Tables for JavaScript Developers
• Building a TreeTable Using Ant Design System
• An Introduction to React-Table
• Performance Recipes: React-Window, React-Virtualized, and React-Virtuoso
• 5 Ways To Improve Table Performance
• React-Select Makes Creating Selectable Menus Easy
• The Power and Convenience of useAsync
• Exploring React-Colorful: The Most Popular React Color Picker
• A First Look at React-Color: The Most Complete React Color Pickers

Web Frameworks

• Introducing Vite — Next Generation Frontend Tooling With Speed and Simplicity
• A Complete Guide To Gatsby + React
• A Look at Remix React Framework: The Full Stack Developer’s Guide
• The Comprehensive Guide on Fresh — A New Web Framework by Deno
• Introducing Qwik — The JavaScript Framework With O(1) Load Time
• Working With Astro — The Super Fast Web Framework
• Exploring the Play Web Framework With Twirl Templates

Web Technologies

• 10 Email Protocols You Should Know
• What’s New in HTTP/3?
• 6 Autofill Features for Web Developers
• 10 Steps to Building Web Applications With Accessibility (a11y)
• How To Fill In Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT®)
• What’s New in WCAG 2.1 & WCAG 2.2
• Exploring Socket.IO in a React Working Environment
• Managing and Analyzing WebSockets
• Embedding Google Forms in React Apps
• Migrating From Moment.js to Day.js in Vite Applications
• Mixpanel — An Effective Product Analytics Tool
• How To Display, Download, and Create PDF Files in React
• Exploring Leaflet for Interactive Map in React Apps
• Exploring React Leaflet for Interactive Map
• Embedding a Monaco Editor Inside React App
• How To Embed a Prism Syntax Highlighter in React Apps
• Evaluating Guess.js in Angular Applications

Storybook / Chromatic

• Problems and Solutions Upgrading to Storybook 7
• When Storybook Meets Fetch Mock
• 6 Ways To Configure Global Styles for Storybook
• An In-Depth Look at Storybook 6
• Meet Chromatic — A Cloud-Based Toolchain for Storybook
• Build React Tabs Using Recoil, Styled Components, and Storybook.js
• Build Advanced React Input Fields Using Styled Components and Storybook.js

Data Visualization

• Create React App and SVGs
• 7 Examples To Master Highcharts in React
• More Highcharts Examples in React: Bubble, Packed Bubble, Stream Graph, and Cylinder
• More Highcharts Examples in React: Sankey Diagram, Arc Diagram, Dependency Wheel, and Network Graph
• Exploring Parallel Coordinates Highcharts in React
• Exploring Highcharts Drawing Capabilities
• Easier D3.js — Render C3 Charts With React Functional Components
• 5 Steps To Render D3.js With React Functional Components
• Constructing D3 Charts in React
• How to Use the Plotly Charting Library in React App

JavaScript

• Everything About JavaScript Promise
• A Handy Guide to Export and Import Modules for JavaScript and TypeScript
• Understand and Configure Absolute Import Paths in JavaScript
• ES2022: A Complete Guide on Private Class Fields, Methods, and Static Initialization Blocks
• The 4 Newest JavaScript Operations: An Introduction
• Manipulating JavaScript Strings Using Template Literals
• An Introduction to JavaScript Compile-Time Processing
• Is Virtual DOM Derived From Document Fragments?
• What Are CJS, AMD, UMD, ESM, System, and IIFE?
• Bundle Up a JavaScript Project Using Rollup
• Bundle Up a JavaScript Project Using Esbuild
• Setting Up Mocks for React Development, Storybook, and Testing

TypeScript

• The Rise, the Fall, and the Future of TypeScript
• A Complete Guide to Enums in TypeScript
• Introduction to Client Side and Server Side Pagination in TypeScript
• TypeScript: Anonymous Types, Type Aliases, and Interface Declarations
• How To Use Lowercase Types for Primitives and Objects in TypeScript
• Detect, Prevent, and Fix: Circular Dependencies In JavaScript and TypeScript

Testing

• 6 Ways to Run Jest Test Cases Silently
• Test and Mock Asynchronous Calls With the Jest Testing Framework
• Testing Your Components in React
• Test Cases and Test Coverage for High Order Components
• Test Custom Hooks Using React Hooks Testing Library
• How To Achieve 100% Test Coverage for React Functional Components
• Exploring SonarQube With Create React App

CSS / Theme

• Styled Components: A CSS-in-JS Approach
• 7 Ways to Inherit Styles Using Styled Components
• 12 Coding Examples of Ampersand Usages in Styled Components
• How to Control Class Names in Styled Components
• Implement Dark Mode Using JavaScript, CSS, and Third-Party Libraries
• Building Dark Mode for Storybook and Web Applications
• Ant Design System Dark Mode and Other Theme Customization

Production / Server

• A hands-on guide for creating a production-ready React app
• A Hands-on Guide for a Server-Side Rendering React 18 App
• Set Up and Use MySQL in Create React App Environment

Coding Interviews

• How To Excel at Coding Interviews in 2021
• The Technical Interview Guide to String Manipulation
• The Technical Interview Guide to Dynamic Programming
• JavaScript Interview Question: Convert Roman Numerals To Numbers
• The Technical Interview Guide to Backtracking
• The Technical Interview Guide to Array Transformations
• Interview Prep: Build Web Application Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

JSON / YAML / Swagger

• Exploring JSON, JSON5, and Circular References
• Is YAML Ready For JavaScript?
• How To Get Started With Swagger as a UI Developer
• Exploring Swagger Codegen and Swagger Plugins
• Swagger Codegen: From Server to Client

Visual Studio Code

• 10 Useful Plugins for Visual Studio Code
• How to Use VS Code to Debug Unit Test Cases

Chrome DevTools

• Use Chrome Extension To Develop Frontend Applications — Vite App and Create React App
• Analyzing JavaScript UI Performance Using Network Panel and HAR Files
• Lighthouse: A Performance and Optimization Tool for Webpages
• How to Use Chrome DevTools to Debug Unit Test Cases

Git Version Control System / Monorepo

• How to Recover From a Git Merge Mess
• Git Merge, Squash, Rebase, or Pull — What To Choose?
• GitHub’s Magic Tools — GitHub CLI, API, and JavaScript
• Nx — The Most Popular Monorepo Tooling With Caching and Dependency Management

Three.js

• React Round Up Podcast: 3D Modeling in React with Jennifer Fu — RRU 186
• Working With Three.js: The Popular 3D JavaScript Library
• Working With 3D Model in Three.js
• Working With Texture In Three.js
• 10 JavaScript Code Techniques To Manipulate Textures In Three.js
• Travel in and Out of 3D Objects Using React-Three-Fiber

Metaverse / BlockChain

• Understanding Metaverse From a Developer’s Perspective
• How to Use Web3.js to Interact With the Ethereum Virtual Machine in Remix
• Use Ethers.js to Interact With the Ethereum Virtual Machine in Remix

Cloud

• 10 Best Practices for SaaS Products

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

• Podcast: Humans of AI with Jennifer Fu (Domino Data Lab)
• MLflow Empowering AI Training
• Build an AI Chatbot Using LangChain🦜🔗
• 🦜🔗 LangSmith Is for Production- Grade AI Applications
• 7 Thoughts on How AI Would Impact the Art World and Our Daily Life
• Exploring OpenAI GPT-3 With Next.js
• JavaScript Overview — An Interview With ChatGPT
• Exploring OpenAI DALL·E APIs With Next.js
• Exploring OpenAI Point·E With Jupyter Notebook, VSCode, and Colab
• Exploring OpenAI Whisper on Hugging Face
• Learning Stable Diffusion With Hugging Face in 5 Minutes
• How AI Is Fueling NVIDIA GTC
• AI Landscape in 2023
• Reading the Tea Leaf From the First Ever MLOps Conference
• Natural Language Processing With Node.js
• Perform Speech Recognition in Your Javascript Applications
• Perform Speech Synthesis in Your JavaScript Applications
• Exploring the AI Programming Language: R
• Supervised Learning: Regression Analysis
• Logistic Regression in Machine Learning
• Supervised Learning: Neural Networks
• Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machine
• Supervised Learning for Multiclass Classification
• Unsupervised Learning: K-Means Clustering

Others

• Figma’s Magic Power for Developers
• Introduction to Byobu: A Window Manager and Terminal Multiplexer
• How To Set Up Bazel for a React App
• How to Optimize Your Mac’s Battery Usage