ECMAScript 2023 for President

🎵 Strudel REPL: Live JavaScript Music in the Browser — This is a lot of fun. It’s a little online sandbox for putting together small musical experiments written in JavaScript. Use the ‘shuffle’ button at the top right until you find something you like the sound of. There’s a tutorial on building your own, too. If you make any good ones, send them in to us and we might link to them.

Felix Roos et al.

The ECMAScript 2023 Language Specification — It’s that time of the year again. The latest ECMAScript spec, which standardizes what we know as JavaScript to some extent, is now in draft. This is not bedtime reading, of course, but is a fundamental part of what makes the langauge tick.

ECMA International

Understand JavaScript in the Background — Learn what happens to your JavaScript when the user closes their browser and how to detect these changes to execute code later. Plus learn the new Web Push API to give your web app new powers!

Frontend Masters sponsor

Let's Build a Chrome Extension That Steals Everything — Indulging in what they call “DIY whole hog data exfiltration”, Matt, the author of Building Browser Extensions demonstrates that in spite of Manifest v3, a whole lot of bad stuff is still possible when it comes to building browser extensions. Be aware of it and don’t actually do it, of course.

Matt Frisbie

What to Expect from Vue in 2023 — Vue.js creator Evan You explains how Vue 3 is different from Vue 2, and in particular how its use of the Virtual DOM has evolved.

Richard MacManus (The New Stack)

Sandboxing JavaScript Code — Val Town is an interesting, rather minimalist platform for running JavaScript in the cloud, and if you’re going to let folks run JavaScript on your server, good sandboxing is a must.

Andrew Healey

An Intro to 'HTML-First' Frontend Frameworks — The post defines HTML-first front-end frameworks as ones that prioritize sending complete functional HTML versus a JavaScript bundle and looks at some of the different approaches taken by different frameworks/tools like Qwik, Marko, Astro, Eleventy, Fresh and Enhance.

SitePen Engineering

You Don't Need Ruby on Rails to Start Using Hotwire — Hotwire, an ‘HTML over the wire’ approach to making Web pages more dynamic (explained here), is closely tied to the Ruby on Rails framework, but you can use it to add dynamism to a static site with no Ruby in sight, as demonstrated here.

Akshay Khot

Performance Analysis of Type-Driven Data Validation Libraries — The author’s tRPC/React project was getting sluggish and after some investigation he narrowed it down to Zod and decided to benchmark it against Superstruct, Yup, Light-Type and Typebox.

Nick Lucas

Why 2023 is the Time to Migrate from AngularJS to Angular — AngularJS went EOL a year ago so hopefully this is old news..

Bartosz and Łukasz

Vuestic 1.6: An Open Source UI Library for Vue 3 — A library of more than 50 customizable components. v1.6 is a big release focused on Tailwind CSS and Nuxt support. Official homepage.

Epicmax

React Libraries for 2023 — The React ecosystem is so large that it's helpful to be presented with some sound, standard options when selecting libraries for a new project. This is the latest annual update of an established list Robin maintains.

Robin Wieruch

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Retool sponsor

Kobalte: A UI Toolkit for SolidJS — The components are unstyled and follow WAI-ARIA authoring practices. You also have granular access to each component part, allowing you to add event listeners, props, etc. GitHub repo.

Kobalte

Urban Bot 1.0: React-Based Universal Chatbot Library — Rather than messing around with the APIs for Telegram, Discord, Slack or Facebok Messenger, write React components instead and get chatbot functionality on each.

Urban Bot

Don’t Let Your Issue Tracker Be a Four-Letter Word. Use Shortcut

Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io) sponsor