May 2023: Accelerate Your IoT Projects and Node Environments
Plus, the latest and greatest on the future of React straight from the React core team themselves.
Hi everyone,
I’m just coming off a long weekend holiday here in the United States that marks the unofficial start of the summer season. But even though we typically think of summer as a slightly slower and more relaxed time of year, it seems like the month of May has been anything but.
Ready for a recap?
On May 2nd, I had the good fortune to interview two of the core React team members about React Forget and more.
In last month’s newsletter, I shared I’d been invited to be a part time co-host for LogRocket’s web development podcast, PodRocket.
And this month, the fun continued with an interview of two of React’s current core team members, Joe Savona and Sathya Gunasekaran. We dug deep into React Forget, React’s new compiler and the general future of React.
I tried not to be too star struck during the episode (talk about a surreal experience talking to some of the folks responsible for building the JavaScript framework I use the most) and I hope you give it a listen.
If the Internet of Things is more your speed, I also participated in a webinar showing how Blues can make IoT development a heck of a lot quicker and easier.
The company I work for, Blues, is focused on accelerating the IoT journey by making Cellular IoT connectivity simple with the Notecard and its companion cloud, Notehub.
In this webinar, we showed how Blues is now taking the next steps to accelerate prototypes by providing free and open source, purpose-built applications for building IoT solutions of all types. From a floor-level tracker, to a power outage monitor, to a connected kiosk, to valve monitors, and more…there are 50+ accelerator applications to choose from.
In case you missed it, a recording is available including live demos of projects, overviews of the hardware used, and the code powering the devices.
And for those of you doing web development on multiple JavaScript projects that require different versions of Node.js, I present to you a game changing tool to my local development workflow: Node Version Manager.
Fairly frequently in web development, certain projects or apps run best on particular versions of Node.js.
Trying to switch between different versions of Node for local development can be a real pain, but the Node Version Manager (nvm) tool makes it a lot easier.
Not only does nvm make managing multiple local Node versions straightforward, but it can also download any version you want, alias frequently used versions, and even define a preferred Node version in a project with a .nvmrc
file.
It really improved my development workflow and I hope it improves yours too.
I hope you enjoyed this month’s edition of “Paige Codes.” Please share with your friends if you did.
See you again at the end of June,
- Paige
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