Somebody somewhere is generating JS from Fortran (JS Party #116)

KBall interviews Brian Leroux in a wide-ranging discussion covering “Progressive Bundling” with native ES Modules, building infrastructure as code, and what the future of JamStack and serverless deployment might look like.

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Featuring:

• Brian Leroux – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Progressive Bundling slides

• ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive

• Rollup

• Begin.com

• ES Modules in Node

• Example ‘Progressive Bundling’ code

• Architect (Arc.codes)

• What Is Infrastructure as Code?

• What is data gravity

• Fauna - “Database built for Serverless”

• DynamoDB

• CouchDB

• Pulumi

• Flash player in WebAssembly

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!