Svelte 4 released

UnsuckJS: Comparing Lightweight JavaScript Options — "No build tools, no compilers, and no hassle." It’s a table of frontend JavaScript libraries on a simple page – that’s it! But it’s a handy table, letting you see the relative popularity, size, and latest versions of libraries as diverse as Preact, bau, htmx, Hyperapp, and Mithril.

Adam Hill

Svelte 4 Released — Four years on from Svelte 3.0 comes the latest major release of the popular compile-time framework that isn’t afraid to do things its own way. If you’re new to it, hit the interactive tutorial to get a feel for things, or if you’re already a user, enjoy the v3 to v4 migration guide, overhauled site, and extra performance on offer.

Rich Harris and the Svelte Team

The Complete UI Component Library For Enterprise Web Apps — A professional UI component library with power widgets like data grid, calendar, scheduler & Gantt charts. Includes API docs, guides and an unreasonable amount of demos to play with. Seamlessly integrates with React, Angular, Vue & Salesforce apps.

Bryntum sponsor

A Look at TypeScript 5.2's New Keyword: using — using brings something akin to Python’s with context management into TypeScript by providing a way to automatically run a Symbol.dispose function when an object leaves scope. You could use this to shut down database connections, close file handles, etc.

Matt Pocock

The 'Getting Started with AI' Stack — Andreessen Horowitz (a.k.a. a16z) is a well known VC firm, but they also have an engineering team of their own that has come up with a “getting started with AI” template for JavaScript devs who want to play with modern ML technologies without too much thinking about tooling.

Li, Li, and Casado (Andreessen Horowitz)

Synchronizing Videos or 3D Model Rotations to Scroll Driven Animations — With just a little JavaScript, you can control 3D models and/or videos using scroll-driven animations. It’s a common effect seen on modern fashion sites.

Bramus van Damme

E-Commerce Simplified — A practical guide to building your Store with Storyblok, Commercetools, and React.js.

Storyblok sponsor

Positioning Anchored Popovers — Popovers are commonly positioned relative to their invoker — but when using the new popover attribute, anchoring can be tricky as these popovers are placed in the top layer, away from the context of their invoker. Hidde looks at options to resolve this.

Hidde de Vries

Selecto.js: Make Elements Selectable Within a Drag Area — Let’s say you have a number of elements that represent choices, data, whatever, and you want users to be able to select a subset of them by clicking/pointing and dragging. That’s what this does. Live examples here.

Daybrush (Younkue Choi)

Tuple – The Fastest Way to Onboard New Devs — Waste hours verbally steering on Zoom? New hires learn your codebase faster with Tuple. Trusted by over 40,000 devs.

Tuple sponsor

AutoAnimate: Add Motion to Your Apps with a Single Line of Code — You can view some nice examples on the page and this can be used with React, Vue, Svelte, or just plain JavaScript.

FormKit

Toad Scheduler: In-Memory Node and Browser Job Scheduler — Provides more structure than setTimeout or setInterval and supports cron-style scheduling.

Igor Savin

Kysely: A Fluent, Type-Safe SQL Query Builder — Inspired by Knex and targeting Node, it also works in Deno and the browser and boasts a good autocompletion experience thanks to its fluent API. GitHub repo.

Sami Koskimäki

AI.JSX: A JSX-Powered AI App Framework — It’s not React, but gives a React-like feel to letting you specify how large language models, such as ChatGPT, should integrate with your app. Luckily there’s a set of tutorials.

Fixie.ai

Generate SBOMs Effortlessly with Snyk

Snyk sponsor

🐼 Panda CSS: Modern, Build-Time, Type-Safe CSS-in-JS — A new DX-focused CSS-in-JS approach boasting build-time generated styles and type safety out of the box. It works with Remix, Vite, Next.js, Astro, and server components.

Segun Adebayo

React Wrap Balancer 1.0: A Component for Better Displayed Title Text — A component that improves the rendering of titles by avoiding overhanging words. v1.0 is a key release that lets the component use the native CSS text-wrap property when supported.

Shu Ding