Plus Deno brings back WebGPU, Safari adds import attributes, TC39's FAQs, and exploring the event horizon of promises. |
✍️ Christmas is almost here, so we're preparing our annual roundup issue for next week, before we take some time off! Keep an eye out for that next Thursday :-)
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Your editor, Peter Cooper |
| New TypeScript Courses: Take the Learning Path — Join Mike North (Tech Lead at Stripe) for this series of brand new TypeScript courses. You'll get hands-on practice covering both the fundamentals and advanced features like utility types and advanced generics. Learn best practices to configure and evolve your TS codebase! Frontend Masters |
| Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU — Deno introduced WebGPU support in Deno 1.8 but it was removed for various reasons. It’s back and gives you a tidy way to work with the GPU directly from JavaScript (behind the --unstable-webgpu flag, at least). Improvements to Node.js compatibility and various Deno APIs, as well as TypeScript 5.3, are included. The Deno Team |
| IN BRIEF: 🎁 GitHub Unwrapped is a fun project that renders your GitHub activity into a video (a la Spotify's "Wrapped" roundups). The source is available. It uses the React-based Remotion to dynamically create the videos. Safari 17.2 is a particularly jam-packed release of Apple's browser, but on the JavaScript side it has added support for import attributes. There's only a day or two left to take the State of JS 2023 survey. The latest Storybook beta has added support for React Server Components. A handy list of JavaScript engines, runtimes, and interpreters. |
| RELEASES: Million 3.0 – VDOM replacement for faster React. Croner 8.0 – Trigger functions using cron syntax. Rollup 4.9, Ember.js 5.5, Expo Router 3.0 beta, Remix 2.4. |
| The Await Event Horizon in JavaScript — You know someone’s getting heavy when they start a JavaScript article by talking about the event horizon around black holes and how “a similar boundary exists around every JavaScript Promise.” Enjoy. Charles Lowell |
| The New TC39 FAQs — TC39 is the committee responsible for evolving and maintaining the ECMAScript spec, the standardized form of JavaScript, and its members have started a disclaimer-riddled FAQ. You can suggest new topics by opening an issue, or learn a little from the nine questions covered so far, including Will JS ever add JSX notation? and Will WebAssembly replace JS? Ecma TC39 |
| You Don't Need JavaScript for That — “Just because you know something needs JavaScript, doesn’t mean it still does. You can make better websites if you test those assumptions every now and then.” Killian Valkhof |
| What Vue’s Creator Learned the Hard Way with Vue 3 — Evan You shared some of the lessons he learned from the release and reception of Vue 3 around things like including a lot of small breaking changes, to choosing deprecation over breaking changes. Loraine Lawson (The New Stack) |
| RE:DOM 4.0: The 2K UI Library — We first linked to this library over 6 years ago but it’s still going, so if you want something to help with creating and syncing DOM elements that’s ‘close to the metal’, it’s worth a look. v4.0 enables tree shaking and adds viewFactory. Juha Lindstedt and contributors |
| Seroval 1.0: Stringify JS Values — A handy utility library for turning JavaScript values into strings that can handle far more complex things than JSON, say. Alexis H. Munsayac |
| Facebook Relay 16.1 – The React GraphQL framework. React PDF 7.6 – Display PDFs in your React apps. Reactotron 3.0 – React Native debugging tool. jest-image-snapshot 6.4 – Jest matcher for image comparisons. pnpm 8.12 – Fast, efficient package manager. ws 8.15 – Fast Node.js WebSocket library. np 9.2 – A better npm publish. |
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