Improve the stability and performance of VSCode extensions — For single-threaded languages such as JavaScript, it might be a situation when a long-running operation blocks the entire application. For example, some code calculates a value using a complex algorithm that significantly incurs CPU and memory usage. Or a controller waits for a response from a query that runs against…

When you open the MongoDB Compass application, an initial dialog that appears is a connection screen. There are two ways in which you can connect to your desired database: fill in connection details manually or connect via a connection string (URI). We wanted to improve the user experience of the…

Playing with the CLIEngine API — You might have a question, why on earth would you format ESLint output when it prints good, styled, verbose reports, plus has lots of configurable options out of the box? Well, I want to learn more about the ESLint tool, play with CLIEngine API, and it definitely should be a…

Du bist so wunderbar Berlin! When I was moving to Germany, I didn’t know anyone here who could help me with the relocation process. It was very stressful but at the same time the very exciting period of my life. …

In my career I have spent plenty of time developing my technical skills, rather than being actively involved in the life of community. There are many reasons for that, but what is more important, after a while I realised, that developers are not just people who write code. …

Early this year, I joined the team which develops and supports MongoDB Compass, a graphical interface for MongoDB. Compass users via Intercom requested a tool which would enable them to write database queries using any convenient programming language supported by the MongoDB driver. …

Want to be a react developer, but don’t know how to start? There was a time when I as a backend developer quite often heard such fancy word as React, but didn’t have a clue what it means. The only thing I knew for sure, if you truly want to stay relevant as a developer, you have to keep learning. This is how you can start learning React. I would take it in this order: Check your timeline for learning React: https://daveceddia.com/timeline-for-learning-react/