Glossary

An attempt at explaining terms and buzzwords often used in software development in a few simple words with the purpose of having explanations than can be easily referenced.

A

ADR (Architectural Decision Record)
AJAX
AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition)
AngularJS
API (Application Programming Interface)
API Gateway
Arity
AST (Abstract Syntax Tree)
Autoboxing
Autoprefixer

B

Babel (6to5)
BDD (Behavior-driven Development)
BEM (Block/Element/Modifier)
BFF (Backend for Frontend)
Blue Green Deployment
Boy Scout Rule
Browserify
Browserslist
Bundling

C

Callback
Callback Hell
Camel Case
Canary Deployment
Client-side Rendering
Cloud Native
CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation)
Codemod
Coding Style
Container
CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation)

D

DevOps
DevSecOps
Docker
DTO (Data Transfer Object)

E

ES (ECMAScript)
Event Sourcing

G

Gatsby
Generics
Git
GitOps
GraphQL

H

Headless CMS
Hydration

I

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
IIFE (Immediately Invoked Function Expression)
Inner Source
Isomorphic

J

JAMStack
JSX
JWT (JSON Web Token)

K

Kebab Case
Kubernetes (K8S)

L

Lift & Shift
Linting

M

Merge trains
Microservices
Minification

N

NOOP (Null operator)

O

OAuth (Open Authorization)
OCI (Open Containers Initiative)
On-premises (On-prem)
OpenAPI

P

Pets vs. Cattle
Pipeline
Pod
Podman (Pod Manager)
Polyfill
Ponyfill
PostCSS
Pragma
Pre-rendering
Preact
Prettier
PropTypes

R

React
Repatriation
REST (RESTful API)
Rubber Duck Debugging

S

Semantic Versioning
Shim
Snake Case
SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)
SSG (Static Site Generator)
SSR (Server-side Rendering)
Start Case
Swagger

T

Tailwind
TDD (Test-driven Development)
Tech Stack
Train Case
Transpiling
TSX
TypeScript

V

Virtualized List

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