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#672 — January 25, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyBetter JavaScript Shell Scripting with Bun Shell— Performance-focused server-side runtime Bun continues its rapid evolution with a side quest...
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#673 — February 1, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyCytoscape.js: Graph/Network Visualization and Analysis Library— Handy if you need to model and/or visualize relational data, like biological data...
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#674 — February 8, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyjQuery 4.0.0 Beta— I recently looked at issue #1 of JavaScript Weekly and the top two items were jQuery, so it’s nice to feature it :-) You might...
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#675 — February 15, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyTempo: An Easier Way to Work with Dates— We think they nailed their own summary: “A collection of utilities for working with the native Date...
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#676 — February 22, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly📊 Apache ECharts 5.5: The Powerful Visualization Library— ECharts’ big selling point, beyond being a well supported Apache-backed project, is...
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#677 — February 29, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyPGlite: PostgreSQL in WebAssembly (and TypeScript)— People have brought Postgres into the browser before, albeit atop a Linux VM WASM layer....
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#678 — March 7, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly📒 Eloquent JavaScript Goes Fourth— Coming several years after the third edition, the latest version of, perhaps, the best ‘all rounder’ book for...
View ArticleBuild-time macros for everyone
#679 — March 14, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyUse Parcel Macros in Other Bundlers with unplugin-parcel-macros— Macros, as implemented in Parcel (and Bun!), are JS functions that run at build...
View ArticlePackage managers, the new todo app?
#680 — March 21, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyRuntime Compatibility Across JavaScript Runtimes— Several developers have come together to build this convenient way to visualize the compatibility...
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#681 — March 28, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyJavaScript Visualized: Promise Execution— A helpful diagrammed and animated article, coupled with an (optional) 8-minute video, that goes into how...
View ArticleA signal boost for JavaScript
#682 — April 4, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyA Proposal to Add Signals to JavaScript— A (very) early stage proposal for bringing a new feature to ECMAScript/JavaScript: signals! The proposal...
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#683 — April 11, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyFrontend Development Beyond React: Svelte— A surprisingly thorough article going deep into one developer’s research into using Svelte to build...
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#684 — April 18, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyQuill 2.0: A Powerful Rich Text Editor for the Web— A major release and significant modernization for the open source WYSIWYG editor. In Announcing...
View ArticleJSR isn't another tool, it's a fundamental shift
#685 — April 25, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyJSR is Not Another Package Manager— When Ryan created Node, JavaScript had no packages or standard module system. npm and CommonJS took off, and...
View ArticleSvelte 5 is almost here
#686 — May 2, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyReact 19 Now in Beta— While designed to get library developers prepared for the eventual React 19 release, this is nonetheless a huge step, with full...
View ArticleGulp is back - did it ever leave?
#687 — May 9, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyDevelopment Notes from xkcd's 'Machine'— I bet many of you are fans of xkcd! For this year’s April Fools’ joke, they published ‘Machine’, a giant Rube...
View ArticleRemix + React Router == React Router?
#688 — May 16, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly📄 How to Document Your JavaScript Package— You’ve written some useful code, you want to distribute it.. what next? Useful docs! The Deno team...
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#689 — May 23, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyCreating Realistic Handwriting with p5.js— Amy wanted to programatically bring her (cursive) handwriting into some diagrams she was making and...
View ArticleA variety of JS hacks and creative coding
#690 — May 30, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyHow 1Password Used esbuild to Cut Browser Extension Build Times— 1Password is a popular password management tool that relies upon a browser extension...
View ArticleThe appealing simplicity of htmx
#691 — June 6, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyPromises from the Ground Up— Josh notes that in order to truly understand promises, a fundamental part of modern JS development, we need “a...
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