[Dev Catch Up #33] - Llama 3.2, Molmo Multimodal Models, Infinite Queries, Node.js add-ons, Frames dataset, and much more.

Bringing devs up to speed on the latest dev news from the trends including, a bunch of exciting developments and articles.

Welcome to the 33rd edition of DevShorts, Dev Catch Up!

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Must Read

• The biggest release among LLMs in recent days is the release of Llama 3.2 by Meta with multimodal capabilities. This model comes in various sizes from medium-sized vision LLMs to lightweight, text-only models. Read more on the models and their performance from this article published by the Meta team and check out the models from Hugging Face.

• AllenAI recently launched the Molmo family of multimodal models that came in sizes of 7B and 72B with benchmarks above GPT-4V, Flash, etc. Learn more about this family of models from this article discussing the capabilities of the models in detail and check out the models from Hugging Face.

• Controlling the react component with the URL is a complex task and is used to deep-link, navigate, or trigger specific component logic based on the URL. Here is an article that provides a deeper knowledge on the subject.

Now, we will head over to some of the news and articles that will be at a place of interest for developers and the tech community out there.

Good to know

• Content Layer API from Astro allows you to load data from any source and access it on your page using a type-safe API. It is claimed to be the future of content collection and here is a deep dive article on the same.

• Infinite queries in React.js Query get implemented in an application with the useInfiniteQuery hook to apply the infinite scrolling behavior that helps fetching data as the user scrolls down the page infinitely. Learn more about Infinite queries from this article.

• Add-ons in JavaScript frameworks are dynamic libraries, written in low-level programming languages that bridge the gap between JavaScript and native code and allows using strengths of both environments seamlessly. Here is an article that discusses everything about Node.js add-ons in detail.

• The “useActionState” hook in React.js that came in the place of useFormState hook does not have any way to reset the state. This article shows how you can reset the state of the hook.

Lastly, we will take a look at some of the trending scoops that hold a special mention for the community. 

Notable FYIs

• Testcontainers is a Java library that allows developers to use Docker containers for integration testing. Here is an article that discusses getting started with Testcontainers for nodejs applications. 

• Google recently released the Frames dataset that is designed to test Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications on faculty, retrieval-accuracy, and reasoning. Learn more about the capabilities of this dataset and use it from the hugging face dataset page.

• Vite is a fast and lightweight build tool for JavaScript that speeds up the development of react applications. Here is an article that discusses the advantages of the tool and gives a walkthrough on the migration of three frontend projects from Parcel to Vite by the Logto Team.

• Go is a language that developers love while building websites and applications. These Go web dev notes will help developers in deciding whether to use the programming language for their upcoming projects. 

• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models developed by Nvidia NeMo have topped the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard. Learn more about them from this article published by the Nvidia developer team.

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