![]() Last week we mentioned we’d match anyone that took up Sunil’s offer in an attempt to raise money for indiafightscorona.giveindia.org/. Very happy to say we raised over $2,500. Here’s who helped - Glen Maddern, Justin Punzalan, Don Michael, Kevin Batdorf, Ben Adam, and a handful of others that asked to remain anonymous. Good job, team. Prisma’s New Direction
And you’re gonna see (my backend) roar-r-r-r-r Prisma is back again with a new suite of tools and a slightly new direction. After years of telling everyone that they definitely weren’t an ORM (object-relational mapping tool), their new tagline describes Prisma as “a next-generation ORM for Node.js and TypeScript.” 🤔 They’ve made a few pivots over the last couple years, and claim that the new ORM label is mostly to help developers understand what problems Prisma solves, even if its approach to solving those problems is fundamentally different from most ORMs. Here’s a quick rundown on the 3 main tools that now make up the Prisma Holy Trinity™:
The Bottom LinePrisma is one of those interesting companies that’s half, “we’re a cute & innovative open-source project”, and half, “we’ve raised $16 million from the biggest VCs in the world to build a billion-dollar empire.” But hey, it’s loved and used by some awesome products and frameworks like RedwoodJS, Blitz.js, KeystoneJS, and many others. And if Prisma can help us all spend less time tearing our hair out writing SQL, it’ll always be worth a billi in our hearts. RxJS releases v7.0
A different kind of RxJS RxJS is not a JavaScript prescription, but for the die-hard fans, maybe it kinda is? That’s my only explanation for why hundreds of people paid $300+ to watch RxJS 7.0 get released at last week’s RxJS Live! virtual conference, instead of just watching the full replay for free on YouTube 6 hours later. But hey, if there’s one thing 2021 has taught us, it’s that money isn’t real. Just ask the girl from the house fire meme who just banked half a mil. Quick review: RxJS is a reactive library for JavaScript that can be used for the frontend and backend (with Node.js). It uses Observables to make it easier to compose asynchronous or callback-based code and is a helpful tool for managing data and events within your app (i.e. mouse clicks, user input, etc.). RxJS 7.0 is the library’s first major release in 3 years and comes after a year-long beta period. What’s new in lucky v7:
The Bottom LineRxJS is still thought of as mostly an Angular tool by many, but TikTok’s React web app just saved 14.3KB by upgrading to RxJS 7, so that we could get videos like this gem to load faster than ever. Maybe v7 will see RxJS continue to expand its presence with other frameworks. JS Trivia - Answer BelowHow many times is the
What will building for the web look like in 5 years?![]() “It will be many times more productive to build fullstack web apps with Javascript frameworks (like Blitz) than with other languages like with Ruby on Rails or Laravel. Running fullstack apps on serverless architecture will be the norm and WAY easier than it is now.”
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