Frontside Software

🎉 Surprise — we’re turning 20 later this year. We've impacted millions of users and 300K+ developers—from startups to enterprises to OSS. We never chased the spotlight, just the hardest problems— and after 20 years, boy, do we have stories. 😅 Follow along at #Frontside20

Effection 4.1 is out: ⚡️ faster runtime, package half the size 🤝 interop with JS explicit resource management 🧬 New `experimental` entry: Contextual APIs, our take on algebraic effects frontside.com/effection/blog…

"Strict" Structured Concurrency: because even with strong guarantees that all tasks have finished, you can still waste work and experience inadvertent deadlocks when background tasks keep running after the foreground is done. frontside.com/effection/blog…

You call `controller.abort()` and it returns immediately, but did everything actually shutdown? The gap between "I asked it to stop" and "it actually stopped" is where leaks hide. frontside.com/effection/blog…

Kotlin, Swift, Python 3.11, and Java 21 all ship it, and Go has libraries to implement it. This is why JavaScript needs Structured Concurrency frontside.com/effection/blog…

🚀 Frontside: Leading at every level. This was an awesome project to be part of! From writing code to shaping certifications as Super SMEs, we drive DX platform building. Scaling Backstage? Let’s talk. 📩 frontside.com/contact/

🚀 Proud to be a Super SME for the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA)! Big thanks to @TheLinuxFoundation for leading the charge on this certification and to the entire Backstage community & contributors who made it happen! #Backstage #DevEx #CBA #DeveloperExperience

🚨 Flaky test suites hurt teams, products, users, and businesses. Graybox testing promises balance—but too often, it turns into a "Frankenbox". 🔎 Why does graybox testing fall short—and what’s a better approach? Read more: frontside.com/blog/2025-02-0…

Happy 2025! 🎉2024 was a big year for us at Frontside. A year of breakthroughs, challenges, partnerships, and meaningful impact. We’re so proud of what we accomplished with our amazing clients and excited for what’s ahead in 2025! Check out our recap → frontside.com/blog/2025-01-0…

.@cowboyd is Live Streaming on YouTube as we're pair programming on Effection V4 youtube.com/watch?v=08ABYT… Come hang out with us #effection #structuredconcurrency

@SimonHyll is guesting on @jacobbolda's stream right now - talking about Docs for Tauri 2.0: youtube.com/watch?v=YfFGg5…

🚀 Milestone Alert! 🚀 Effection, our structured concurrency library at Frontside, has hit 500 GitHub stars! 🌟 Huge thanks to our amazing community, clients, and partners. Check out Effection now: frontside.com/effection/ #Effection #structuredConcurrency

🌟 Celebrating 4 years as an Official Backstage Partner! We're thrilled to be spotlighted in the Backstage 2024 Roadmap call! 🎉 We’ve transformed 250k+ developers' lives with industry-leading expertise. Let’s chat! frontside.com/contact🚀 #DeveloperExperience #Backstage

@jrsinclair @cowboyd great article! also, Effection 3.0 lib is brilliant and has such a nice, minimalistic API - 🙌 @cowboyd

A very good outline of why it’s important to know what async/await is doing behind the scenes. Also, generator functions are awesome. “The await event horizon in JavaScript” by @cowboyd frontside.com/blog/2023-12-1…

🌟 As we countdown to 2024, we want to say thank you to you, our partners, clients, community, and friends for your support. Wishing you all a safe and spectacular New Year's Eve. Excited for what we'll achieve together in 2024! 🎇Happy New Year!🎇 Cheers! 🍻#NewYear2024

🚀 Our Advanced Backstage Plugin Development Workshop was a big hit! 🌟 Huge thanks to our attendees for their enthusiasm and positive feedback. We are looking forward to the upcoming workshops in 2024. 🔌 Get plugged in. Join the waitlist for updates: frontside.com/workshops/adva…

@sebastienlorber @cowboyd You're all set! We The subscribe button has been fixed, and we've added an rss feed to the site as well: frontside.com/rss.xml Let us know about anything else you'd fix about the experience 😀

@cowboyd @thefrontside thanks, let me know when ;)

Building a beautiful tech blog is nice But if you don't have an RSS feed and your subscribe form doesn't work, then how can I follow what you publish? 🤷‍♂️

Effection on GitHub and the Web - frontside.com/effection - github.com/thefrontside/e…

Write leak-proof code with a tiny API that harmonizes perfectly with the JavaScript constructs you know and love. Effection is Structured Concurrency and Effects for JavaScript, and today we're releasing version 3.0 #StructuredConcurrency #javascript frontside.com/blog/2023-12-1…