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JSConf is back
#712 — November 7, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyJavaScript's ??= Operator: Default Values Made Simple— The ??= nullish coalescing assignment operator snuck into JavaScript a few years ago via...
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Will we care about frameworks in an AI world?
#713 — November 14, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyComponent Party: A Rosetta Stone of UI Libraries— A long-standing comparison of many different frameworks (like React, Vue, Svelte, Angular,...
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Exploring JavaScript symbols
#714 — November 21, 2024Read on the Web🦃 We're taking next week off for Thanksgiving. We don't celebrate it in our country, but we know many of you do, so it seemed a good time for a break. We'll be...
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Oracle engages its lawyers and JavaScript turns 29
#715 — December 5, 2024Read on the Web🗓️ If you missed last week's issue, don't worry, it didn't exist – we took a week off for Thanksgiving! We're now back all the way through to the Christmas break...
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Benchmarking Node's recent performance enhancements
#716 — December 12, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyBoa v0.20: An Alternative JavaScript Compiler— Under development for several years, Boa has a few missions: be a Rust ECMAScript implementation,...
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A 2024 JavaScript retrospective
#717 — December 19, 2024Read on the Web🎄 We've made it to the end of 2024! In this issue, we're being reflective, leading with a few news items but then looking at what made 2024 special in the world...
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The projects that shaped JavaScript in 2024
#718 — January 10, 2025Read on the Web🗓️ Friday is the new Thursday! If you were a JavaScript Weekly reader several years ago, you might remember it always landed on Fridays and after getting caught...
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An introduction to building live collaborative JS apps
#719 — January 17, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyLearn Yjs and Building Realtime Collaborative Apps in JavaScript— Yjs is a CRDT (Conflict-free replicated data type) library for building...
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Bun's on a roll with v1.2
#720 — January 24, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyBun 1.2: A Big Step Forward for the Fast JS/TS Runtime— The JavaScriptCore-based Bun continues to up its server-side runtime game with strides...
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A WebAssembly compiler in 192 bytes
#721 — January 31, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThings People Get Wrong About Electron— A long-time maintainer of the wildly successful Electron cross-platform app framework stands by the...
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Oracle dabbles in some JavaScript comedy
#722 — February 7, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyOracle Claims 'JavaScript' Isn't a Generic Term, and More— In this 'motion to dismiss' Oracle has responded to Deno’s attempt to prove Oracle...
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It's time to go ESM-only
#723 — February 14, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyStyle Observer: A Library to Observe CSS Property Changes— Lea Verou is a developer who’s easy to admire because whenever she sets out to solve...
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The latest from TC39's recent meeting
#724 — February 21, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyTC39 Advances 3 Proposals to Stage 4— I love seeing Rob Palmer’s tweets about TC39’s progression of JavaScript proposals and this is a good...
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Doom for TypeScript types
#725 — February 28, 2025Read on the Web✏️ Whenever we include more than a few links about TypeScript, we get complaints from people who don't like it. We get that, we love you folks, and we're aware....
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The current state of JavaScript on the Web
#726 — March 7, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyA Report on How the Web is Really Using JavaScript— Each year, the HTTP Archive puts together the Web Almanac, a report on the ‘state of the Web’....
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Can you understand this JavaScript?
#727 — March 14, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyA Perplexing JavaScript Parsing Puzzle— It looks deceptively simple – just 14 characters of JavaScript – but after working with JavaScript for 29...
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The Rsdoctor will see you now
#728 — March 21, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyRsdoctor 1.0: An Analyzer for Rspack and Webpack— A one-stop, intelligent build analyzer making it easier to identify bottlenecks and optimize...
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The tale of a bizarre bug encountered in Google Docs
#729 — March 28, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly⭐ The State of Vue.js Report 2025— Created with the support of the Vue and Nuxt teams, this is no mere collection of statistics and charts (though...
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The JavaScript trademark fight rumbles on
#730 — April 4, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyBare: A New Lightweight Runtime for Modular JS Apps— Imagine something like Node.js but really stripped back: bare, if you will. Like Node, it’s...
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Comparing Tauri and Electron
#731 — April 11, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly🤖 Firebase Studio: Google's New Agentic AI-Powered Development Environment— Buzzing from the success of Gemini 2.5 Pro for dev tasks, Google’s...
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