Jack's articles

In this beginner-friendly TypeScript tutorial, you'll learn why it's useful to add types to JavaScript, and how to take advantage of them.

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.

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.

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.

Meet Svelte 3, a radical JavaScript framework. With its compiler-based approach, it's not for everybody - but it's worth considering.

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.

Jack Franklin lays out a set of tips and best practices for creating and organizing React applications in a scalable way.

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.

Jack Franklin tries out Vue.js 2.0, and walks through building a basic GitHub API demo to put the framework through its paces.