The Dev Times #87
Halfway through each month, our newsletter for developers: The Dev Times, brings three reads that our own developers found interesting on the web, and two Transloadit updates that may interest you.
Skip – make your backend reactive
Skip is an innovative new framework from a team at Meta, which provides a simple abstraction for real-time features in applications. Similar to how React simplified reactive state updates in the frontend, Skip wants to tidy up backend state management. It works as a simple comprehensive abstraction, powering services that provide always-fresh data to any client without the headache of configuring an external cache. Find out more ›
Unpic 1.0
Unpic's premise is simple: providing a widely supported image plugin that allows you to easily display fast, responsive images with minimal effort. With support for ten different frameworks and 26 image hosts, Unpic 1.0 now seems to have achieved what Matt Kane originally set out to do. Easily integrating into your existing CDN or CMS, and generating the necessary HTML tags – it's as trivial as using an <img> tag in your code.
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Standard Schema – a common type validation interface
Standard Schema is a common interface for JavaScript and TypeScript schema libraries, designed by the creators of Zod, Valibot and ArkType. The interface has one simple goal: to make it easier for ecosystem tools to accept user-defined type validation, with many popular schema libraries already supporting the Standard Schema. The interface is incredibly minimal, aiming to provide type inference without getting in the way of your dev experience. Try it out ›
Generate meaningful file previews
We're proud to introduce our new /file/preview Robot, a Transloadit feature designed to automatically create meaningful previews for all file types. Whether you need video thumbnails, audio album art or waveforms, document page previews, website screenshots, or archive icons – this Robot can deliver previews that help humans identify files quickly. We handle the complexity of the various file types, letting you focus on building your app. Check it out ›
Live weather map composition with cURL & ImageMagick
Real-time data can be a game changer, especially when it comes to weather visualization. In this post, we explore how to create a live weather map composition pipeline using a shell script that fetches remote images via cURL and seamlessly processes them with ImageMagick. This approach not only saves disk I/O, but also provides a flexible method for on-the-fly image transformation. Read more ›