Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all in order to make informed decisions. This is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings that have free tiers for developers.
Laravel Mix is a clean layer on top of webpack to make the 80% use case laughably simple to execute. Most would agree that, though incredibly powerful, webpack ships with a steep learning curve. But what if you didn't have to worry about that?
With the wonderful world of JAMstack getting big, all the categories of services and tools that help it along are as important as ever. There are static site generators, headless CMSs, and static file hosts. I think those classifications are handy, and help conversations along. But there is a point where nuance is necessary and these classification buckets get a little leaky. Post written by Chris Coyier.
Poet is a blog generator in node.js to generate routing, render templates, and get a blog up and running fast.
Tina is an open-source site editing toolkit for React-based frameworks, Gatsby and Next.js
Develop, test, and deploy your secure static or dynamic personal web site with zero configuration.
If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application.
Do you have scheduled jobs run via Cron that you want to prevent being run via browsers and other user agents? This post, written by Andy W, presents two methods to do so.
Netlify helps developers quickly roll out static websites. In this in-depth Netlify course for beginners, you will learn how to use the service for everything needed in modern web development, from local setup to global deployment. This video is the perfect place to start for anyone that wants to learn how to use Netlify.
Knex.js is a "batteries included" SQL query builder for Postgres, MSSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite3, Oracle, and Amazon Redshift designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.
Objection.js is an ORM for Node.js that aims to stay out of your way and make it as easy as possible to use the full power of SQL and the underlying database engine while still making the common stuff easy and enjoyable.
Koa is a new web framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs.
A list of Themes and Starters for JAMstack sites.
In yet another recent project, I’m building a book proposal submission platform with a Vuejs frontend and a Kirby CMS backend. Kirby supports the use of HTTP Basic Autentication to make interacting with it via a custom web client (e.g. Vuejs) nice and easy. In my case, I need to interact with Kirby securely to tell it to create a new page (a new “Book”) without requiring a user to create an account or login. Post written by Morgan Brown .
Jamdocs - the ultimate static generated documentation theme for the JAM-stack.
Jigsaw is a framework for rapidly building static sites using the same modern tooling that powers your web applications.
