Plus Next.js 13, what's fresh in Node 18 for LTS users, lots of confetti, and a JSON storage bin to use as a mock backend. |
| Turbopack: A Rust-Powered 'Successor' to Webpack — With over 3 billion downloads, webpack is the current champion of the bundlers (though Vite has been rapidly advancing). Vercel found it too slow and has funded work on Turbopack. It's a project to keep an eye on and boasts huge performance boosts over webpack or even Vite, but there are some limitations to take into account: It's arguable if it's a "successor" to webpack, as Turbopack can't do much of what Webpack can yet, and while they share a creator, webpack is an active project with maintainers of its own. It's very connected to React and Next.js 13 (also released this week – more on that next) – Vue and Svelte support is to follow. The similarly Rust-powered SWC is used to transpile JS/TS. Vite's Evan You 🐦 casts some doubt on the perf difference claims. He also has 🐦 a thread with his thoughts on Turbopack generally. TLDR: Unless you're big into Next.js, stick with your existing tools. Koppers and Palmer (Vercel) |
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| Node 18 Becomes Active LTS with v18.12.0 — Formerly a ‘current’ release getting all the newest features, version 18 (now codenamed Hydrogen) is now the active ‘Long Term Support’ release and will remain so until October 2023. Ruy Adorno and Rafael Gonzaga |
If you're using an older LTS version and are wondering what Node 18 has to offer, Marian Villa presents 11 Features in Node.js 18 you need to try, including the fetch API, --watch, and the native Node test runner. |
| IN BRIEF: The SQLite project now has official WASM/JS documentation relating to SQLite's presence in WebAssembly and browser contexts. sql.js has long been the go-to project in this space, but things are heating up. CodePen is a perfect place to play with Preact (the smaller alternative to React) – and Chris Coyier explains how. Christian Heilmann reminds us that JSON.stringify can create nicely formatted, filtered, multi-line output strings. |
"Next.js is the framework for the web the way k8s is the framework for infrastructure" – Kelsey Hightower at Next.js Conf. |
| RELEASES: Babel 7.20.0
↳ The popular transpiler now supports TypeScript 4.9 and Deno as a compilation target. Handsontable 12.2 – Popular spreadsheet-y data grid. Deno 1.27 – JS server-side runtime that isn't Node. (Or Bun.) Qwik 0.12 – HTML-first framework. |
| Which Serverless Edge Platform Has the Fastest Git Deployments? — The team behind Deno have tested some popular serverless edge computing providers (including their own Deno Deploy) to see which has the fastest git deployment time. As always with benchmarks, read the results with a cynical eye and repeat for yourself. Andy Jiang (Deno) |
| How to Build a Blog with Fresh and Deno — In other Deno news, if you’ve felt like giving Deno a go for something but been unsure as to what, how about spinning up a simple blog atop the Fresh Web framework? Then deploy it really quickly to Deno Deploy ;-) Andy Jiang (Deno) |
| ▶ A Next.js Crash Course — There are a lot of such videos, but this is a well recorded and up to date one so it might help you get the lay of the Next.js land (which seems to be all the rage this week in particular) if you’re just starting out with it. (2 hours 30 minutes) Anson Foong |
| NPKILL 0.9
↳ Lists node_modules directories and lets you clean them up. Wild Wild Path 3.3
↳ Object property paths with wildcards and regexps. capture-website 3.2
↳ Capture screenshots of websites with Puppeteer. Mongoose 6.7
↳ MongoDB object modeling library for Node.js. |
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