Web frameworks

Web frameworks

Nitro.js is a JavaScript-based HTTP server. It builds on state-of-the-art components, focusing on performance, convention, and deployment. As a JavaScript developer, you want to know about Nitro because it's built from the ground up for modern, full-stack web development. It brings together a wealth of good ideas and is becoming a go-to server option. Nitro is deployment-aware, designed to make it easy to deploy your code to a variety of production platforms, from Node to serverless and edge computing hosts like Vercel or CloudFlare.

Reactive programming is an important coding style that evolved from the functional programming world. Reactive code is ideal for processing and connecting realtime streaming data. You can use reactive programming to compose streams into pipelines that cleanly model complex logic with non-blocking operations. Java has excellent reactive support, and one of the most popular reactive Java frameworks is Spring WebFlux.

The hype around the introduction of React Server Components (RSC) was undeniable. For the uninitiated, RSCs are a new way to build React apps that render components on the server, keeping code and data-fetching logic away from the client. The promise was appealing: a unified approach to server and client rendering, unmatched performance, and simpler data fetching, enough to convince many of us that this was the next best thing after cheese.

Solid.js takes a unique approach to reactive state management that has broadly influenced other reactive front-end JavaScript frameworks. It provides a compact set of reactive primitives built on signals, rather than state, and leverages those to support higher-order functionality. With a clean core design built for speed and a full set of enterprise features, Solid charted an impressive 90% developer satisfaction in the January 2025 State of JavaScript survey. Let's get started with Solid.js.

If you've worked with Tailwind CSS, chances are you've used daisyUI. As one of the most popular Tailwind component libraries, it's valued for its sensible defaults, wide component set, and flexibility that feels native to Tailwind. Now, with the release of Tailwind CSS 4, the ecosystem is evolving - and daisyUI is keeping pace. Version 5 is more than an update: it's a complete rewrite built to be smaller, faster, and more customizable.

At Caktus, many of our projects use pip-tools for dependency management. Following Tobias' post How to Migrate your Python & Django Projects to uv, we were looking to migrate other projects to uv, but the path seemed less clear with existing pip-tools setups. Our requirements are often spread across multiple files, like this: $ find requirements/ -type f requirements/test/test.in requirements/test/test.txt requirements/deploy/deploy.txt requirements/deploy/deploy.in requirements/dev/dev.txt requirements/dev/dev.in requirements/base/base.in requirements/base/base.txt

The Repository Pattern in Laravel is a design pattern that separates your application's business logic from data access logic. Your controller doesn't talk directly to Eloquent models; it talks to a repository interface instead. This approach improves testability, maintainability, and allows for easy swappability, such as replacing Eloquent with an API or external data source.

Internationalization involves more than just text translation; it encompasses formatting dates, pluralization, and sorting according to cultural expectations. The Intl API allows modern JavaScript to handle these tasks natively.

BoxLang introduces a URL rewriting feature that allows developers to assign specific scripts to be executed upon receiving a 404 error, enhancing flexibility.

Deno Cron is designed to simplify scheduling jobs without overlap, allowing users to avoid complications that often arise from concurrent execution of tasks.

Cold starts in AWS Lambda refer to the additional latency introduced when initializing a new execution environment for a function invoked after a period of inactivity.

Litestar stands out in the Python web ecosystem as a unique async-first, type-hint-driven framework, attracting positive attention due to its simplicity and ease of use.

When a pod is created, Kubernetes goes through a series of steps to ensure the pod is properly initialized and ready to serve traffic. This includes scheduling, resource allocation, and networking.

Blazor's rise aligns with transformative shifts in the DevOps landscape, particularly with AI and ML integration, which enhances DevOps processes and app performance.

The quiz allows participants to test their knowledge of Flask application development through 9 questions related to views, blueprints, and application factory patterns.

In TensorFlow 2.15, the introduction of a new type promotion system allows for two modes: ALL mode for broad type handling and SAFE mode for cautious management of types.

ArgoCD's UI and CLI are designed for users with extensive technical background, which limits access to GitOps workflows for less technical stakeholders. This increases reliance on DevOps engineers.

CVE-2014-3931 still lurks in aging Multi Router Looking Glass instances where the fastping buffer overflow lets a remote user corrupt memory.