Plus deep cloning JS objects, controlling the desktop with Node, and how to make Bun tastier. |
| Astro 2.0: The Next-Gen 'Islands'-Oriented Web Framework — 2.0 includes hybrid rendering (mixing of SSR and SSG outputs), type safety for Markdown & MDX, and an upgrade to Vite 4.0. Astro is worth exploring when performance is key as it works with popular frameworks but lets you deliver the least JS possible to get pages rendered. Fred Schott |
Prefer a talk? Nate Moore's ViteConf talk ▶️ Islands Architecture, Astro, and You will bring you up to speed. |
| Deep Cloning Objects in JavaScript, The Modern Way — If you’ve been leaning on something like Lodash for deep cloning, you might not need to any longer. “It’s been a long time coming, but we finally now have the built-in structuredClone function to make deep cloning objects in JavaScript a breeze.” Steve Sewell |
| Announcing TypeScript 5.0 Beta — A new major version number, but users of the popular typed JS superset will face a ‘similar upgrade experience’ to previously. Decorators make it in as a first class feature, significant performance and package size optimizations are present, export type * is supported, all enums are now union enums, and much more. Daniel Rosenwasser (Microsoft) |
| AlaSQL.js 3.0: Isomorphic JavaScript SQL Database — A SQL database you can use in the browser, Node.js or mobile apps. An interesting bit of functionality is you can use SQL to query JavaScript objects – example. “The library adds the comfort of a full database engine to your JavaScript app. No, really.” Andrey Gershun |
| IN BRIEF: 🏅 If you're really into Vue.js, you'll soon be able to become officially certified in it. If you're using React, you should be using a React framework, 🐦 says Andrew Clark of the core team. The creator of alternative JS runtime Bun asks: "If there's one thing missing from Bun for you to switch, what is it?" You can reply on Twitter. jQAPI.com is an amazing meeting of old and new JavaScript – it's an Astro powered version of jQuery's documentation! |
| RELEASES: Shoelace 2.0
↳ Agnostic library of web components. μFuzzy 1.0
↳ Tiny fuzzy search library. React Router 6.8 Node.js 19.5.0 |
| Getting Started with SvelteKit — SvelteKit only recently hit 1.0 and this is a comprehensive overview of how to build a site using the Svelte-oriented app framework. It covers topics like routing, layouts, data, props and more. Adam Rackis |
| scrollend: A New JavaScript Event — Finally an event you won’t need a hotel booking for. scrollend provides a new way to detect that a scrolling operation is complete in the browser. Is it another Chrome-only nicety? Surprisingly not – Firefox 109+ supports it too. Adam Argyle (Chrome Team) |
| Packaging Rust Apps for the npm Registry — Isn’t npm just for JavaScript projects? Nope. Node is required to make this technique work, but as long as you can package and execute a binary, you’re good to go. Orhun Parmaksız |
While we're on the topic of less JavaScript, the latest episode of the Stack Overflow podcast ▶️ 'The less JavaScript, the better' focuses on Astro. |
| Dygraphs 2.2
↳ Interactive charts of time series data. actions/github-script 6.4
↳ Write GitHub Actions workflows in JS. Playwright 1.30
↳ Browser automation framework. Faast.js 6.4
↳ Serverlessly call JS functions on AWS Lambda & Google Cloud Functions. Cypress 12.4
↳ Testing framework for anything in a browser. D3plus 2.1
↳ Extend D3.js with more visualization types. |
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