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Developers constantly seek to avoid repeating themselves. Here are three practical strategies for sharing JavaScript code across multiple projects, with honest trade-offs for each approach.

Comparing two approaches to programmatic PDF generation in Node.js: react-pdf for React-native document composition, and Puppeteer for full-browser HTML-to-PDF conversion.

A head-to-head comparison of Prettier and StandardJS — two popular JavaScript code formatters — to help your team stop arguing about style and focus on functionality.

Lessons learned from creating Instea's first open source project — a context menu component for React Native.

How to test side effects in Redux Saga without complex mocking — using generators, mocha and chai.

Exploring the ongoing debate between dynamic and static typing — what really matters is if you test your code.

Comparing Karma, Jest and Mocha for testing React applications — their strengths, weaknesses, and when to use each.

Understanding how Node.js handles concurrent tasks — non-blocking I/O, blocking computation, and solutions using webworker-threads and Node Cluster.

An overview of asynchronous programming patterns in JavaScript — callbacks, async library, Promises (ES6), and async/await (ES7).

A summary of an Instea tech talk on npm version 2, covering dependency management, semantic versioning, devDependencies, and best practices for JavaScript projects.

How to configure wro4j (Web Resource Optimizer for Java) with Spring Boot using runtime mode and an HTTP filter, without any third-party Spring Boot starters.