Explore the cutting edge of digital transformation with Cognizant Netcentric. Powered by Notebook LM, our podcast brings you AI-generated insights from real client success stories—unpacking the strategies, innovations, and lessons that drive impact. From AI-driven marketing to system engineering, data layers, and beyond, we dive deep into the expertise shaping the future of digital experiences.
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Take a break, grab a cup of coffee and join us to discuss what's new in frontend development and, why not, outside of it? Jesus 'Chucho' Castañeda is a Senior Frontend Software Engineer and Ricard Torres is a Principal Frontend Software Engineer, both at Cognizant Netcentric. We bring your most needed monthly break. Tune in!
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Powering Growth for MGM Resorts through Creativity and Marketing Innovation
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17:26At Adobe Summit, Sujit Menon (Cognizant Moment) and Giana Zelaya (MGM Resorts) explore how Adobe helps MGM personalize the guest experience. From breaking down data silos to real-time insights, discover how tools like Campaign, Analytics, and MMM are driving their digital transformation in hospitality.…
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Ep. #43: Mobile First in 2025: Why Are We Still Getting It Wrong?
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29:15Ricard today complains about sites not being mobile-first and Chucho drops a history lesson. What is mobile first? Why are we still talking about this? How can we deliver better experiences? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
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Ep. #42: Accessibility in 2025, tips to be ready
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32:20We discuss the European Accessibility Act (EAA) that might affect your website, how to check, and deal with common issues. How hard is it to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA? We give you an insight and share our experience. What's your experience with accessibility? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honu…
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How to innovate and win the race for content velocity
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12:30Discover how Bimota’s iconic motorcycle brand was relaunched globally with the help of Adobe Edge Delivery Services. Sybrandt from Cognizant Moment and Aris from Kawasaki Motors Europe share how a small team built a fast, scalable, and engaging website—highlighting the power of speed, simplicity, and seamless integration within the Adobe ecosystem.…
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AI-Powered Consumer Engagement: New Minds, New Markets
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10:48Cognizant's "New Minds, New Markets" study, examines the consumer perspective on artificial intelligence. The speakers emphasize how AI is poised to transform consumer engagement with brands, potentially more significantly than the internet's emergence. They highlight that consumers are already adopting AI for shopping and product experiences, nece…
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Content Supply Chain Revolution: Speed and Efficiency
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15:33Cognizant Netcentric helped a global recreational vehicle leader overhaul their content supply chain to meet growing content demands. The client struggled with inefficient workflows, limited visibility, and slow asset approvals across disconnected systems. The solution expanded and integrated Adobe Workfront with Adobe Experience Manager Assets to …
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Human-AI Collaboration: The Agentic Operating Model
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21:36This episode explores the "Agentic Operating Model"—a new approach that combines human creativity with AI precision to boost efficiency, innovation, and adaptability. Learn how this model fosters seamless collaboration between humans and AI to drive sustainable growth and shape a preferable future.By Cognizant Netcentric
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Cognizant Netcentric Named Adobe Partner of the Year 2025
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6:30Cognizant Netcentric, a part of Cognizant Moment™, has been recognized as Adobe's 2025 Digital Experience Partner of the Year for Central Europe.By Cognizant Netcentric
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OptiMax: Delivering More with Less Through Content Supply Chain Innovation
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11:09This Podcast addresses the challenge modern marketers face: the increasing demand for content and broader responsibilities alongside shrinking budgets. It introduces Adobe's solution, Gen Studio, an integrated platform leveraging tools like Edge Delivery Services for efficient content delivery and Workfront for workflow management, enhanced by Gene…
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Volvo Trucks: Automotive CMS Revolution with Adobe AEM
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19:14Volvo Trucks North America and Mack Trucks partnered with Cognizant Netcentric to revolutionize their automotive content management system (CMS).By Cognizant Netcentric
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Volvo Trucks' Digital-Only Truck Launch with AEM Edge Delivery Services
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17:36Volvo Trucks North America sought to modernize its content management system to achieve faster content delivery and enhance editorial efficiency. Choosing Adobe's AEM Edge Delivery Services, they aimed for a cloud-based solution capable of future technological advancements. An unexpected requirement arose in 2024: a digital-only launch for their ne…
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Ep. #41: How we manage stress in the FE world
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33:53We chat about things that can be stressful as a FE developer, we suggest things that work for us on how to deal and mitigate it (for you and you team). Share your tips and tricks with us! Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
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We share what we loved most about the 2024 CSS Wrapped as well as other CSS changes we've witnessed over the years that changed our way of working (yes, we will talk about border-radius). What where CSS changes that blew your mind? https://chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2024/ Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard…
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Ep. #39: Best practices, standards and guidelines
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29:25We discuss how we work with guidelines, standards and best practices at Cognizant Netcentric. Including our very own ESLint and Stylelint open source configurations. Do you follow any guidelines when coding FE? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard.torres…
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Ep. #38: Morals, ethics and being eco-friendly as a FE Developer
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30:56We discuss the moral of working for certain industries, how can we be more green (spoiler: it's web performance) as developers, as well as open source. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
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Ep. #37: Lessons learned as FE Developers
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31:01Chucho and Ricard have been coding for more than 18 years. These old time developers will share some of their hard learned lessons on being a developer and/or a FE Lead. Share your sips of wisdom with us. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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Why is it important to be on the loop for the latest and greatest FE technologies out there? The latest JavaScript framework? What's possible with the latest CSS? Performance and SEO... There's just so much. We share our tips and tricks to stay fresh and relevant. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://rica…
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Ep. #35: Patterns, anti-patterns and dark patterns
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36:47We explain the differences, share examples and give you plenty resources to get you started. Chucho can't stress enough that you should read these at least once! patterns.dev Gang Of Four GOF Design Patterns Design Patterns deceptive.design Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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Ep. #34: Development conferences. Worth it?
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30:19We talk about web development conferences, going in-person or attending online. Are they worth it? What's the benefit? Couldn't you just watch a recording? What's the most interesting conference you've ever attended? If you haven't yet, any conferences you'd like to go to? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres htt…
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Ep. #33: How to write quality and maintainable code?
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34:00We chat what is code quality, what are code smells, tips and tricks to make your code readable and maintainable. What are your tips? Code quality metrics: https://www.sealights.io/code-quality/code-quality-metrics-is-your-code-any-good/ Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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We discuss different ways to do knowledge sharing in your team or company. The challenges we've faced and what has worked for us. Find out about our Netcentric Academy https://www.netcentric.biz/jobs Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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Ep. #31: How we started 2 frontend podcasts
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35:25Did you know we have both this and a different internal FE podcast? The internal podcast started first and gave us the idea to start one on YouTube. Tune in to know how it all began and what we learned along the way. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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What is Accessibility? What's your experience with Web Accessibility? What does it mean a website is accessible? Keyboard navigation? Labels? These and more in today's episode. https://accessibility.day/ https://www.w3.org/WAI/ https://dynomapper.com/blog/27-accessibility-testing/273-wcag-the-web-content-accessibility-guidelines-explained Follow us…
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What's your take on Web Components? What are the best use cases? Should you use them for regular AEM projects? What's the best thing about Web Components? Check out a performance comparison of different frameworks and techniques to create Web Components: https://webcomponents.dev/blog/all-the-ways-to-make-a-web-component/ Follow us: - Chucho Castañ…
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SPA? MPA? Are these still relevant in 2024? When would you use an SPA vs a regular MPA? Have you heard about the new View Transitions API? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
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FE Manager, FE Lead... there are many names for what we think might be the same thing. We discuss what a FE Lead is accountable for. What to expect from a FE Lead? Types of leaderships. Join the conversation and tell us what's the your ideal type of FE Lead. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.soc…
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Ep. #26: How much UX should a FE developer know?
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33:26We discuss UI, UX, design and the role of the frontend developer. Reading recommendations Links https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-to-usability/ Books by Donald Norman The design of Everyday Things Emotional Design Books by Jakob Nielsen Usability Engineering Designing Web Usability Eyetrac…
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Today we're joined by Dragan Filipovic, Senior Front-end Software Engineer at Cognizant Netcentric. We talk how he spearheaded the initiative to open source our FE Build. A Frontend build system that can be used in both AEM and non-AEM projects. Try it out here: https://github.com/Netcentric/fe-build Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.co…
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Ep. #24: Content management, decisions or options?
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24:15When creating web components for content editors, do you give them all the options? or take decisions that will work best for development and maintenance? We discuss headless vs server-side rendering as well. Ricard loves JSON files. Chucho? Maybe not. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@r…
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What is the Impostor Syndrome? How to fight it? Why is it more common than we think in Frontend development? We discuss this and offer some tips that have worked for us! Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
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We talk about GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, phind, and Bard. We share how we use it for coding. How about you? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
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Ep. #21: How to find time for career development?
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31:24How can you find time for your career development? ⏱️ Here’s our take on it: In the latest episode of the hit Frontend Coffee Break podcast, we discuss the strategies that frontend leads and managers employ to make room for growth amidst their daily responsibilities. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://r…
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Ep. #20: Is Mobile First still a thing in 2023?
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29:32Is the mobile-first mindset still relevant in the world of development? 🧐 Here’s the deal: Today we discuss the best practices and approaches for developing websites and apps for mobile devices. Chucho mentions Ricard's library for Two Way Data Binding, here it is: https://github.com/quicoto/two-way-data-binding Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https:…
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Ep. #19: Should you be constantly challenged?
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29:21What benefits frontend developers the most: working on long-term projects, or switching every six months? 🤝 We discuss the FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) on new technologies in the changing world of frontend development. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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Looking for a better way to optimize and improve your project’s web performance? 🚀 We’ve got you covered: Today Chucho and Ricard are joined by Ines Akrap, Senior Web Performance Engineer, for insights into Core Web Vitals in 2023. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard Additional reso…
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Ep. #17: How to work with images on the web in 2023
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30:32Are you a web developer or designer passionate about creating visually stunning, high-performance websites? 🤩 We review the optimal ways how to upload images in 2023. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard Additional resources: - https://web.dev/learn/images - https://squoosh.app…
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Ep. #16: Reacting to Rich Harris' video on frameworks and the web
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29:27Today we react! It's not necessary but it would give you more context if you watched first Rich Harris' video before listening to the episode. If not, that's ok too, we'll try to give you as much context as possible. Rich Harris' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXCipjbcQfM Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Tor…
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Ep. #15: Is progressive enhancement worth it?
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31:41There is one question on the minds of web developers and tech enthusiasts everywhere: How 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 relevant is progressive enhancement and graceful degradation in 2023? In the latest episode of the Frontend Coffee Break podcast, we spill the tea on whether these approaches are still worth it, as well as the best techniques to get the most out of them …
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Ep. #14: FE Web Performance: the good stuff
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32:09We talk about what we look for on a website when it comes to web performance. What are the basic things we first check? What tools do we use? FE developers even if not web performance experts need to be able to identify issues and how to solve them. At Cognizant Netcentric we've written some articles about web performance, have a look: https://www.…
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Time to get real: Should you 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 document your code? We’re breaking it down in the latest episode of the Frontend Coffee Break podcast. Our resident experts, Jesús and Ricard, weigh in on whether you should document your code, how often this should be done, and why every developer should use JSDoc on a daily basis. What's your take on this topic…
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Take a moment to consider your current JavaScript debugging process. Thankfully, we're dropping some hot tips to make things run smoothly. In the latest episode of the hit Frontend Coffee Break podcast, Ricard and Chucho delve into the most effective ways to debug JavaScript in 2023, which’ll save every developer loads of time and frustration. What…
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Ep. #11: What is a skill map and why you should have one
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28:10How do you know what to learn next? What's the required skills to move to the next level of your career? Do the skills in job offers reflect what you do on your day to day? Today we discuss that and how we've implemented for FE at Cognizant Netcentric. Here some roadmaps to get inspired: https://frontendmasters.com/guides/learning-roadmap/ https://…
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Ep. #10: Unit Testing, love it or hate it?
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30:48Ricard loves unit testing! Chucho will challenge it, is it worth it? A waste of time? Who's going to win today's fight? Do you write unit tests in your projects? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
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We've been interviewing for a very long time, now that we only do remote interviews we share our tips, do's, best stories and some horrors too. Share with us what was your best interview, or any tips you can give the rest of the listeners. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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We love to build side projects, to learn something new, have fun, or just solve a problem. Today we discuss what these are and some tips, as well as ideas. Question for you: do you usually do side projects? Share the latest you've done! Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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Ep. #7: Public speaking, knowledge sharing and why you should try it!
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28:29We give you our take on why we think knowledge sharing is important and some of the ways we do it at Cognizant Netcentric. What's your experience with public speaking? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
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Ep. #6: Which CSS should you learn in 2023?
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30:01CSS has come so far, we share what we used to do, what we do in JS and what can we do in CSS. What are you most looking for in CSS for 2023? Is there any change that has surprised you this year? Learn more: https://smolcss.dev/ https://www.udemy.com/course/css-grid-mastering/ https://flexboxfroggy.com/ https://cssgridgarden.com/ Follow us: - Chucho…
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Time for real talk: building inclusive workplaces
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14:42For this episode we’re joined by Carmelo La Mattina and Alejandro Bernad, who are both part of our Embrace group - Embrace ambassadors in our Diversity and Inclusion Holocratic circle. The Embrace group is focused on LGTBQ+ issues in the workplace and that’s what we discuss in this personal conversation. Tune in for honest conversations and actiona…
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When starting a website do you always think about the JavaScript framework first? Can we reduce the amount of JavaScript? Server Side Rendering is still the best approach? Learn more: - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Progressive_Enhancement - https://qwik.builder.io Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricar…
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Do you use TypeScript? Should you? When is it a good approach? Large projects, small projects... Join in on the discussion. Learn more: - https://www.typescriptlang.org/ - https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations - https://github.com/features/copilot Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.so…
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