Node.js makes fullstack programming easy with server-side JavaScript
Here's why JavaScript has been the language of choice for front-end and back-end web dev.
Why hooks are the best thing to happen to React
Originally, React mainly used class components, which can be strenuous at times as you always had to switch between classes, higher-order components, and render props. With React hooks, you can now do all these without switching, using functional components.
Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers
Code quality affects the mental state of a programmer, communication within their team, and the incentives attached to their work. Improve your code and you can improve your organizational health and competence as a whole.
Why solve a problem twice? Design patterns let you apply existing solutions to your code
Software design patterns are like best practices employed by many experienced software developers. You can use design patterns to make your application scalable and flexible.
The Stack Overflow Podcast is a weekly conversation about working in software development, learning to code, and the art and culture of computer programming.
October 27, 2021
A murder mystery: who killed our user experience?
On this sponsored episode of the Stack Overflow Podcast, we talk with Greg Leffler of Splunk about the keys to instrumenting an observable system and how the OpenTelemetry standard allows you to avoid vendor lock in.
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October 26, 2021
Podcast 387: The first ten years of our programming lives
Everybody starts somewhere with coding, even if that's just to make your favorite game better.
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October 22, 2021
Podcast 386: Quality code is the easiest to delete
Hustle culture and startups playing at being rocket ships end up working against quality code.
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October 19, 2021
Podcast 385: Getting your first job off the CSS mailing list
You're crafting the color of the button on the component of the feature for the platform, m'kay.
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Shift to remote work prompted more cybersecurity questions than any breach
For this edition of Stack Overflow Knows, we did a deep dive into cybersecurity topics across Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites to spotlight trends and reflect on how conversations are evolving within the developer and technical community.
David Gibson
Senior Data Analyst
Best practices for REST API security: Authentication and authorization
If you have a REST API accessible on the internet, you're going to need to secure it. Here's the best practices on how to do that.
Extracting text from any file is harder than it looks. Extracting formatting is even harder.
We discuss how to handle challenges like this with speed and scale in our latest piece from Hyland
Check out the Stack Exchange sites that turned 10 years old in Q3
Ten years on the internet is a long time. Let's celebrate the Stack Exchange sites that, as of Q3, have hit that milestone.
Juan M
Manager, Community Management Team
No joke—you can buy our copy/paste keyboard right now
Become a better coder...with this one weird click. The copy and paste keyboard from our April Fool's joke is real and available for purchase.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
GitLab launches Collective on Stack Overflow
A new way to discover and share knowledge about version control, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and all-remote workflows
The Loop: Our Community department roadmap for Q4 2021
It’s time once again for the ritual that I know we’ve all come to love: the quarterly update on Community team projects. This quarter’s projects are constrained by a lack of available technical/engineering resources on our Public Platform team, so you’ll see that we are focusing on projects that don’t require assistance from them.
Philippe Beaudette
VP-Community
