When exploring some graphql I stumbled over it’s quite special syntax for defining a query gql`query`
. Now this seemed like a nice shorthand way of expressing an inline query, but I just couldn’t understand which construct made this possible. Typescript? Ecmascript 2016? Or maybe some other feature?
There was a recent blog post with the status of Aurelia vNext. For those of you that don’t know, Aurelia is a front-end framework with a focus on standards, extensibility, ease of use and performance. It’s been a while since a new major release, so vNext is a pretty big deal.
I worked on another developer’s machine yesterday and they were using the auto-save feature in their editor. This threw me off completely, and had me questioning a fundamental truth I’ve had of needing to save files while developing software. 😱
I learned of the auto save feature in VSCode and I'm surprisingly hesitant of enabling it.
— Pavneet Singh Saund @ Gran Canaria 🏳️🌈 🙌🏽 (@pavsaund) October 11, 2019
I’ve decided to experiment with the auto save feature on, but first I wanted to dissect WHY I’m so skeptical, and what I could potentially gain. Here’s a brain-dump.
TL;DR: I’ve written and published a /now page.
For more of the back story and understanding what it is, read on.
There was recently a post on the Aurelia Discourse that caught my attention asking how react-like hooks would work when using Aureliajs. The response from Aurelia’s creator underlined some of the reasons why I trust Aurelia to build JavaScript applications with Aurelia.