Jack's articles
Working with the File System in Deno
By Jack Franklin,
Deno is a worthy rival to Node.js. Learn how to use it to create a command-line tool that can search for text within files and folders.
How to Fetch Data from a Third-party API with Deno
By Jack Franklin,
Ever wished Node was more secure and came with TypeScript support out the box? Deno offers this and more. Learn why many are switching from Node to Deno.
Learn Snowpack: A High-Performance Frontend Build Tool
By Jack Franklin,
Webpack can get slow when you're rebuilding a large app. Enter Snowpack. Find out how Snowpack serves your app unbundled during dev, and why this matters.
Svelte 3: A Radical Compiler-based JavaScript Framework
By Jack Franklin,
Meet Svelte 3, a radical JavaScript framework. With its compiler-based approach, it's not for everybody - but it's worth considering.
How to Test React Components Using Jest
By Jack Franklin,
Need to test your React components? Check out Jest, a testing framework by Facebook with some great features that make testing React components a breeze.
How to Organize a Large React Application and Make It Scale
By Jack Franklin,
Jack Franklin lays out a set of tips and best practices for creating and organizing React applications in a scalable way.
Higher-order Components: A React Application Design Pattern
By Jack Franklin,
Jack Franklin takes a look at higher-order components, a design pattern that helps keep your React applications tidy, well structured and easy to maintain.
Getting up and Running with the Vue.js 2.0 Framework
By Jack Franklin,
Jack Franklin tries out Vue.js 2.0, and walks through building a basic GitHub API demo to put the framework through its paces.