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#652 — August 17, 2023Read on the Web🏝️ I'm taking two weeks off and will be back on Thursday, September 7. So if you don't see the newsletter turn up for a while, it's our fault ;-) As I've had to...
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#653 — September 7, 2023Read on the Web😅 We're back! After two weeks enjoying the blistering desert heat of Las Vegas and downpours of Storm Hilary, I'm ready to get back to the weekly JavaScript...
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#654 — September 14, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyBun 1.0: Is It a Toolkit? Is It a Runtime? It's Both— You’ve used Node, you’ve seen Deno, now Bun has grown up too. It’s a performance-oriented...
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#655 — September 21, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly▶ TypeScript Origins: The Documentary— You know you’ve made it when you get your own documentary! This has just dropped but is well produced,...
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#656 — September 28, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThe Saga of Google's Closure Compiler— Dan looks back at Google’s Closure Compiler, a JavaScript transpiler Google built in 2004 and used most...
View ArticleComparing test assertion styles in JavaScript
#657 — October 5, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyAn Interactive Intro to CRDTs— Conflict-free replicated data types (the so-called CRDTs) provide a popular approach to replicate data across...
View ArticleFluid simulation in JavaScript
#658 — October 12, 2023Read on the Web✍️ Due to being on the road at an event, this is a more compact and bijou issue but I'm back at full pace next week 😅__Peter Cooper, your editorJavaScript...
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#659 — October 19, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyApexCharts: Interactive Charting and Dataviz Library— A mature and frequently updated charting library for building interactive data...
View ArticleWeb Components forever?
#660 — October 26, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyTransformers.js 2.7: ML for the Web, Now with Text-to-Speech— Transformers.js provides access to machine learning models directly in the browser...
View ArticleBig news for both Next.js and Remix
#661 — November 2, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyNext.js 14 Released— Unveiled at last week’s Next.js Conf, v14 caused a lot of community discussion (not least on Hacker News), largely...
View ArticleAngular is back
#662 — November 9, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyReintroducing Angular with Angular v17— Angular first appeared in the shape of AngularJS in 2010 and helped launch a wave of large-scale...
View ArticleDigging into explicit resource management
#663 — November 16, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyPrettier 3.1 Released— The popular opinionated code formatter has a new release including support for the new control flow syntax in Angular 17...
View ArticleThe unbearable weight of massive JavaScript
#664 — November 23, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyTime to Take the State of JavaScript 2023— The long standing State of JavaScript survey is back for another run at figuring out what the...
View ArticleEvery Framework Everywhere All at Once
#665 — November 30, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyEliminating JS Framework Lock-in with Web Components?— Can you build an app where each component is using a different framework? Amazingly, yes....
View ArticleLearning JS framework concepts by building one
#666 — December 7, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyLearn How Modern JS Frameworks Work by Building One— Building things is a great way to learn, even if you don’t end up using what you built. Even...
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#667 — December 14, 2023Read on the Web✍️ 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...
View ArticleReflecting on a big year for JavaScript
#668 — December 21, 2023Read on the Web🎄 Welcome to the final issue of 2023! We're taking a week off for Christmas, so this issue focuses on looking back at the past year and the items that intrigued...
View ArticleJavaScript's rising stars
#669 — January 4, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly🌟 The 2023 JavaScript Rising Stars— At the start of each year, Michael rounds up the projects that gained the most popularity on GitHub in the...
View ArticleIs htmx Just Another JS Framework?
#670 — January 11, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyIs htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?— Despite being four years old, htmx has seen a surge in popularity recently, parly due to fatigue with...
View ArticleAstro + htmx + Alpine.js == AHA
#671 — January 18, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript Weeklyconsole.delight— You use console.log to output text, but did you know that in the browser console it can be used to render other things, like...
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