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CDKTF Has Free Terraform in TypeScript — Here's How to Ditch HCL Forever
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
CDKTF Has Free Terraform in TypeScript — Here's How to Ditch HCL Forever
Love Terraform but hate HCL? CDKTF lets you write Terraform configs in TypeScript, Python, Java, C#,...
Deno Fresh Has a Free API — Zero-JS Web Framework with Island Hydration
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
Deno Fresh Has a Free API — Zero-JS Web Framework with Island Hydration
Fresh is a full-stack web framework for Deno that ships zero JavaScript to the client by default....
NATS Has a Free Messaging System That Replaces Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis Pub/Sub
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
NATS Has a Free Messaging System That Replaces Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis Pub/Sub
Kafka needs ZooKeeper and a team to manage it. RabbitMQ needs Erlang expertise. NATS is a single 20MB...
Valibot Has a Free Schema Library That Is 98% Smaller Than Zod
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
Valibot Has a Free Schema Library That Is 98% Smaller Than Zod
Zod is the standard for TypeScript validation. But it ships 14KB to the browser. Valibot does the...
Waku Has a Free Minimal React Framework Built for React Server Components
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
Waku Has a Free Minimal React Framework Built for React Server Components
Next.js is powerful but heavy. Remix merged into React Router. Waku is the minimal React framework...
Kysely Has a Free Type-Safe SQL Query Builder With Zero Magic
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
Kysely Has a Free Type-Safe SQL Query Builder With Zero Magic
ORMs hide SQL. Query builders expose it. Kysely is a type-safe TypeScript SQL query builder that...
Turso Has a Free Edge SQLite Database That Puts Data Closer to Users
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
Turso Has a Free Edge SQLite Database That Puts Data Closer to Users
Centralized databases add latency. Turso replicates your SQLite database to 35+ edge locations...
Testing Library Has a Free Philosophy That Makes Your Tests Actually Useful
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
Testing Library Has a Free Philosophy That Makes Your Tests Actually Useful
Most component tests break when you refactor. Testing Library tests survive because they test...
MSW Has a Free API Mocking Library That Works Everywhere
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
MSW Has a Free API Mocking Library That Works Everywhere
Mocking APIs in tests is painful. MSW (Mock Service Worker) intercepts requests at the network level...
Grafana Tempo Has a Free Distributed Tracing Backend You Should Know About
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
Grafana Tempo Has a Free Distributed Tracing Backend You Should Know About
Distributed tracing is essential for microservices debugging. But Jaeger needs Elasticsearch, and...
Zustand Has a Free State Manager That Replaces Redux in 10 Lines
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
Zustand Has a Free State Manager That Replaces Redux in 10 Lines
Redux needs actions, reducers, selectors, middleware, and 200 lines of boilerplate for a counter....
Zod Has a Free Schema Library That Makes TypeScript Validation Effortless
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
Zod Has a Free Schema Library That Makes TypeScript Validation Effortless
TypeScript types disappear at runtime. That means your API inputs, form data, and environment...
Vitest Has a Free Testing Framework That Outperforms Jest
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
Vitest Has a Free Testing Framework That Outperforms Jest
Why Developers Are Switching From Jest to Vitest Last year, a team I was consulting for...
Nitro Has a Free API: The Universal Server Engine Behind Nuxt That Runs Everywhere
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
Nitro Has a Free API: The Universal Server Engine Behind Nuxt That Runs Everywhere
Nitro is the server engine that powers Nuxt 3 — but it works standalone too. Write server code once,...
Wails Has a Free API: Build Desktop Apps With Go and Any Frontend Framework
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
Wails Has a Free API: Build Desktop Apps With Go and Any Frontend Framework
Wails is a framework for building desktop applications using Go for the backend and web technologies...
Zod Has a Free Validation Library: TypeScript-First Schema Validation With Zero Dependencies
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
Zod Has a Free Validation Library: TypeScript-First Schema Validation With Zero Dependencies
You validate form input with if statements. You parse API responses with type assertions. You trust...
ONNX Runtime Has a Free API: Run ML Models 10x Faster in Any Language
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
ONNX Runtime Has a Free API: Run ML Models 10x Faster in Any Language
ONNX Runtime is Microsoft's open-source inference engine that runs machine learning models across...
MSW Has a Free API That Makes API Mocking in Tests and Dev Actually Work
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 1w ago
MSW Has a Free API That Makes API Mocking in Tests and Dev Actually Work
Mock Service Worker (MSW) intercepts network requests at the service worker level. No monkey-patching...
Evidence Has a Free BI Tool as Code — Here's How to Use It
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 2w ago
Evidence Has a Free BI Tool as Code — Here's How to Use It
Tableau costs $70/month/user. Looker needs Google Cloud. Evidence generates beautiful data dashboards...
Figma Has a Free API — Here's How to Extract Design Tokens and Automate Your Workflow
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 2w ago
Figma Has a Free API — Here's How to Extract Design Tokens and Automate Your Workflow
A frontend developer told me he spent every sprint manually copying hex codes, font sizes, and...