Some tips on observables
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My opinions on HTMX
HTMX is a JavaScript library designed to add interactivity to your web pages. With it, you don’t build a single page application, you use standard templates (written in Django, Jinja) rendered in your backend, add attributes to your HTML elements and let HTMX add the appropriate interactivity. From what …
Promise returned by async functions
Recently at work, I encountered a problem with a function that should have returned a custom promise subclass. The goal of this subclass is to be able to call a cancel method to cancel some pending action done within the promise and then reject it. It looks like this:
class …Using JavaScript and TypeScript in jupyter notebook
While wandering how to run some tests with JavaScript, I discorvered that deno, a JavaScript runtime like NodeJS, has support for jupyter notebooks thanks to this article. It works perfectly. Install deno (probably available in your distribution repositories), run deno jupyter --install and you are good to go!
To get …
Offline support almost without Javascript
Recently I wandered wether I could build a website with offline support without building a full SPA. The answer is yes it’s doable: you only need Javascript for the service worker. Just for the fun, I also tried it with navigation done with HTMX and without much surprise it …
Writing RSS reading app with various frontend frameworks
During the summer, I decided to test a few frontend framework to see what’s going on in this space and form a better opinions over alternatives to React. I tested Svelte because after hearing from it I felt attracted to it, Vue because it is popular, React to have …
React hook to load fonts
If you need to load a specific font in a component, you can use this hook. It will return true when the fonts are loaded. It relies on the document.fonts API to load the fonts. If the fonts are already loaded, the promise will be fulfilled immediately and the …
Yarn workspaces and mono repos
I currently work in a small startup with two other developers. We have three projects: an API written in Python with the Django web framework, a big React app and a website written with NextJS. All these project are in the same git repository. This allows us to easily share …
Testing the re-frame Clojure frontend framework
I wanted to test re-frame a Clojure framework for building user interfaces. It is built on top of Reagent a Clojure library to interface with React in ClojureScript. The main goal of this framework is to help you manage the state of your application. To do that, you need to …
Testing the Svelte JS framework
After hearing good things about the Svelte JS framework, I decided to give it a try. To test it, I did something very original: the classic TODO app. You can see a picture of the end result on the screenshot below.
Here are my impressions after this tests:
- Despite using …