January picks - A curated list of articles from the web

Here is a list of interesting articles about development, software craftmanship, cloud and architecture that I enjoyed reading during the month of January.

Node JS / Typescript

• A JS/Typescript mono repo management tool, alternative to Lerna, made by @mircrosoft : RushJs
• A fast & reliable npm alternative : pnpm
• Error chaining in Node.js v16.9.0
• Structured cloned is coming to Node.js v17
• Fetch is coming to Node.js
• Typescript features to avoid (or not)
• Typescript 4.6 beta announced

Cloud

• AWS Lambda Powertools (TypeScript) Beta (no ready for production yet)
• News from the serverless world

Dev / Tooling

• A CLI/UI tool to create mock easily : mockoon
• OAuth2.1 explained in a simple way(!) (in french)(audio not top notch but slides are good)(pkce inside) (slides)
• New types of potential security issues when using graphQL
• Mono-repo to multi-repo and back again
• Alternative to JWT with authorisation business rules integrated in the token and lesser rights delegation :
• Doxious, lib to do front end in Rust
• A thread about the advantages of using rust-analyser vscode extension when coding in Rust (-> rust-analyser
• A thread about some dev tooling on macOS :
• The reasons of porting of tsc in Rust Go by the creator of swc (a fast typescript transpiler written in Rust)
• A thread about some old cli tools reworked in nowadays fashion
• Obsidian, awesome Markdown note taking app

Craft / Architecting

• Documenting the Architecture of Your Projects With the C4 Model
• Think like an architect
• Writing code is easy, being a great developer is hard
• Accelerate and craft (in french) :
• The different kinds of Engineering manager
• Sustainable architecture

I hope you enjoyed the ride, see you next month !