Craig Taub

JS 'under-the-hood' series https://bit.ly/36GLhlo. MochaJS core team.

📍 London

Under-the-hood of type systems (e.g. TypeScript)

I struggled to find an explanation from a low-level view of exactly how a “JavaScript type system compiler” is implemented. I understood many of the jobs of a type system but was unsure of the mechanisms involved and how they worked together.

javascript

Source Maps from top to bottom

This article covers a basic overview and an in-depth explanation of the mechanics of JS code generators and source maps. Building our own from scratch, hence why it is quite long.

react

Under-the-hood of React Hooks

This article explains some ideas behind React hooks and demonstrates principles of this mechanism using simplest implementation possible.

webpack

Under-the-hood of web bundlers (e.g. Webpack)

Webpack is somewhat of a black box for most developers. Tools like “create-react-app” abstract most of the bundler functionality away. I did some research into it and began building my own light-weight web bundler to understand more about what it entails.