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A Massive Bug at the Heart of the npm Ecosystem — “This is a doozy,” says the author, who used to work on the npm CLI team. We don’t want to spoil his story too much, but in short, package manifests and actual package contents don’t necessarily match up and this can be manipulated by bad actors and even trip up auditing tools.

Darcy Clarke

Useful DevTools Tips and Tricks — Having worked on both Firefox and Edge's devtools, Patrick knows his stuff (and shares over 100 tips on his DevTools Tips site). Here, he shares his top 15.

Patrick Brosset (Microsoft)

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Introducing the MDN Playground — The popular Web dev docs site has branched out into the world of code sandboxes. The MDN Playground provides a space to prototype frontend ideas and expand live samples in the MDN docs into an interactive experience (such as those here).

Mozilla

Don't Write Console Logs Yourself Ever Again — We all use console.log and we’ll probably use it forever, but Amit says we can save time by using the Turbo Console Log extension for VS Code to at least insert the console.log statements for us..

Amit Merchant

An Introduction to Parser Combinators — Parsing is rarely exciting, but Varun has done a fantastic job of making an engaging tutorial for a dry, yet extremely useful, topic. This is the bare basics, but I hope we can encourage him to finish the series :-)

Varun Ramesh

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An Update on Next.js's App Router Approach — The ‘app router’ in Next.js 13+ offers a new approach for structuring Next apps and is recommended for all new ones going forward (it became stable in Next.js 13.4 last month). This post provides a welcome update on how the project sees the feature evolving and how the team is continuing to integrate and collaborate with React generally.

Delba de Oliveira and Lee Robinson (Vercel)

Why Doesn't TypeScript Properly Type Object.keys? — This provoked an extensive discussion on Hacker News.

Alex Harri

Making Tiled Maps with Unity and JavaScript — If you want to create your own Google Maps-esque, Web-rendered tiled maps, Leaflet is a great option, but how do you produce custom map tiles? Using the Unity game engine is certainly one of the more creative ways..

Alan Zucconi

Chalk.ist: Create Attractive Images of Source Code — Turn your source code into beautiful images using a variety of themes and customizations. (Be sure to note accessibility requirements or issues around using such images.)

Kasper Mikiewicz

Radash 11: A Functional, Modern, Typed Utility Library — There’s a live playground where you can try these out, and all 70+ utilities are described with examples in the docs. Underscore/Lodash vibes!

Ray Epps

Simple Statistics: Statistical Methods in Readable JS — A lot of the functions are quite simple, but the API is easily understood and covers areas like averages, deviations, correlation, and randomness.

Tom MacWright

Shiki: A Syntax Highlighter That Uses VS Code Themes — Supports over 100 languages and you can specify a VS Code theme in the settings to get the look you want. Works in both Node.js and even on static sites (via a CDN build) and you can see some examples here.

Shiki

Typist: Tiptap-Based Rich Text Editor Component — An unashamedly opinionated yet simple text editor control. You can try the examples in the sidebar. It's suited for basic rich text situations like writing comments or messages and also has a single-line mode.

Doist