Creating a VS Code agent hook to respond to file changes
Explains how to check if a certain file changes after an AI agent turn so you can respond with some action.
Blogpost / 05-26-2026
Nicholas C. Zakas
United States
I'm an independent software engineer, coach, and author of more than 10 books on JavaScript and web development. I've been working on open source projects for almost 20 years. My first significant contributions were to the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library, where I wrote the project's testing framework and cookie utility. Over the years, I contributed to JSHint, co-created CSS Lint, and created ESLint, which is the de facto standard for JavaScript linting.
Community Contributions
Improving developer velocity with GitHub merge queue
Explains how merge queue works along with some tips and tricks.
Blogpost / 04-06-2026
Securing npm is table stakes
I discuss npm's security problems in 2025 and how I would address them.
Video/Podcast / 01-29-2026
Upstash Redis Server
I was surprised that Upstash Redis didn't have an official local development server, so I and GitHub Copilot teamed up to create one. Zero lines of code written by me.
Open source project / 01-10-2026
How GitHub could secure npm
My thoughts on the npm security issues and how to address them.
Blogpost / 01-07-2026
Safe Fetch
A wrapper around the native JavaScript fetch() function that doesn't throw errors.
Open source project / 12-01-2025
What's coming in ESLint v10.0.0
I wrote about the changes coming in the next major version of ESLint.
Blogpost / 10-03-2025
S3Bucket
A small JavaScript utility for interacting with S3 buckets.
Open source project / 08-20-2025