Vercel’s $150M Funding, Remix Open‑Source, and Key Front‑End Tools Explained

News

Vercel raises $150 M in Series D

Vercel, a leading platform for web developers, announced a $150 million Series D round, valuing the company at $2.5 billion. The company’s milestones include the launch of Now in 2016, successive versions of Next.js, and previous funding rounds.

Remix becomes open‑source

Remix, a full‑stack web framework created by the original React Router team, is now open‑source. Its key features include out‑of‑the‑box setup, SSR/SSG support, standards‑based web fundamentals, integrated development experience, resource preloading, and more.

Official documentation: Remix – Build Better Websites.

Open Source

Concurrently

Concurrently is a library that wraps child_process to enable concurrent execution of commands.

It is useful for running multiple services, such as two Webpack dev servers, from a single terminal.

Example package.json scripts:

{
  "scripts": {
    "server_1": "node server_1.js",
    "server_2": "node server_2.js"
  }
}

Using concurrently:

{
  "scripts": {
    "server": "concurrently 'npm run server_1' 'npm run server_2'",
    "server_1": "node server_1.js",
    "server_2": "node server_2.js"
  }
}

Run npm run server to start both Node services simultaneously.

Article

TypeScript’s never type – Part 1

This article, part of “TypeScript’s Other Side: Type Programming”, explains the differences between never, any, and unknown types, and demonstrates practical use‑cases for the never type.