Meta Developer Tools: Working At Scale
- Neil Mitchell tl;dr: “Every day, thousands of developers at Meta are working in repositories with millions of files. Those developers need tools that help them at every stage of the workflow while working at extreme scale. In this article we’ll go through a few of the tools in the development process. And, as an added bonus, those we talk about below are open source so you can try them yourself.”featured in #430
Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools
- Jim Nielsen tl;dr: “The animations panel lets you slow down the animations happening in the browser so you watch them play out at much slower speeds and troubleshoot the mechanics of the animation.”featured in #420
Modern Web Debugging In Chrome DevTools
- Bramus Van Damme Victor Porof tl;dr: "As an author, you want to see and debug the code that you wrote, not the deployed code. To make up for it, you can now have the tree show the authored code instead. This makes the tree more closely resemble source files you get to see in your IDE, and these files are now separated from the deployed code." The authors discuss how this works and other additions to Chrome's DevTools.featured in #348
Building For The 99% Developers
- Jean Yang tl;dr: "As the founder of a developer tools startup, I’ve talked with hundreds, if not thousands, of software developers in the course of routine user research." Jean presents the "truths" about building enterprise software for "99% developers," the ones working outside of "hip companies and frameworks": (1) Smaller companies attempt to the imitate tooling of FAANG companies despite different resources. (2) There is no gold standard development environment. (3) The goal is progress, not perfection, and more.featured in #292
Cloudflare Workers: The Fastest Serverless Platform (Eliminate Cold Starts)
- Rita Kozlov tl;dr: Just about four years ago, we announced Cloudflare Workers, a serverless platform that runs directly on the edge. Today, Workers is 30% faster than it was three years ago at P90. And it is 210% faster than Lambda@Edge, and 298% faster than Lambda.featured in #276
Wrangler 2.0 — A New Developer Experience For Cloudflare Workers (Eliminate Cold Starts)
- Ashcon Partovi Sunil Pai tl;dr: We’ve made it much easier to get started with Cloudflare Workers. All you need is a single JavaScript file to run a Worker -- no configuration needed. You don't even need to decide on a name!featured in #275
Developer Tools Secrets That Shouldn’t Be Secrets
- Christian Heilmann tl;dr: (1) Console is more than log() - it's console.log(width), console.error(), console.trace(), etc... (2) You can log without source access. (3) You can log outside the browser i.e. in the VS Code debugger. (4) You can inject code into any site. And more.featured in #274
Developer Tools Secrets That Shouldn’t Be Secrets
- Christian Heilmann tl;dr: (1) Console is much more than "log()." (2) You can log without source access – live expressions and logpoints. (3) You can log outside the browser – VS Code debugger. (4) You can inject code into any site – snippets and overrides, and more.featured in #266
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 92)
- Jecelyn Yeen tl;dr: You can now preview and author CSS Grid with the new CSS Grid editor, and more.featured in #232
Developer Tools Can Be Magic. Instead, They Collect Dust
- James Koppel tl;dr: James highlights how research is light-years ahead of what’s being deployed and presents three of his favorite tools from the last 30 years, all of which he's tried to use but that don't currently run.featured in #231