Welcome back to our weekly trends, 2021 seems to be full of exciting news. let's deep dive
- It's still mid January, but we have one big acquisition as google announces full purchase of Fitbit for $2.1 billion. Fitbit is a leader in fitness tracking and smart watches. There are many concerns regarding this deal. The biggest is regarding health data privacy and its usage in Google’s ad tracking although google made some confirmations regarding that for global users. Another concern is regarding the competition and monopoly as how third-party fitness trackers work with Android .
- 2020 state of JS is ready to check with many insights regarding typeScript's widespread adoption in many companies and how new features are being adapted at scale.
- Checkout.com announced $450 million series C fund. This follows $150m Series B in June 2020 and $230m Series A in 2019. If you’re not familiar with the company, Checkout.com wants to build a one-stop shop for all things related to payments, such as accepting transactions, processing them and detecting fraud. It focuses on large merchants and tries to make its product as customizable as possible so that you integrate it as an infrastructure partner in your product.
Top Picks
- New starter kit for express based on 12-factor app recommendations and using modern tools in the community.
- Code reviews are very helpful to build you team on both technical and non technical aspects. this is an awesome guide on code review best practices, if you loved this, then please check this amazing 2 parts blog, part 1, part 2. If you are on the other side of the table and you're the author of PR, then double check this blog.
- Working on presentations, web developers have their unique ways of delivering html presentation inn an easy way , it's based on RemarkJS and uses markdown to deliver optimized, offline presentations
- NanoId: a tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript. It's just 108 bytes (minified and gzipped). No dependencies