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#​736 — May 16, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly ‘I Think the Ergonomics of Generators is Growing on Me’ — The author notes generator functions have been widely available in JavaScript for a long time, yet “their practicality hasn’t exactly caught on.” This is a great look at what they are and where …

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#​735 — May 9, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly k6 1.0: Go-Powered Load Testing with JavaScript — A full-featured, configurable load generation tool that uses the Sobek Go-powered JavaScript engine to support writing test scripts in JavaScript. v1.0 promises stability, first-class TypeScript support, and better extensibility. Grafana Labs JSON-Powered White-Label Form Builder for Your …

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Node.js 24 has officially landed! This release brings some exciting improvements to JavaScript developers, making Node.js faster, more capable,

our latest release bringing an exciting wave of new features, critical improvements, and behind-the-scenes optimizations.

#​734 — May 2, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly GSAP v3.13: JavaScript Animation Set Free — Last year the popular GSAP (a.k.a. GreenSock) animation library was acquired by Webflow and as of this new version the entire GSAP toolkit is freely available (including formerly paid addons like MorphSVG and SplitText) even for commercial use. …

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#​733 — April 25, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly p5.js 2.0: The JavaScript Library for Creative Coding — A popular Processing-inspired creative coding library that makes it easy to create interactive, visual experiences (examples). v2.0 improves its font support, adds more ways to draw and manipulate text, adds a way to write shaders …

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#​732 — April 18, 2025 Read on the Web 🥚 A Good Friday, if you celebrate Easter at all. We’re taking a little break but didn’t want to take the entire week off, so we have a slimline issue for you today 🙂 We’ll be back to full service next Friday!__Peter Cooper, your editor JavaScript Weekly The …

Read More “TC39: No to records and tuples, yes to enums”

With a range of observability and APM tools available, choosing the right one for your stack and team can be challenging but it can save you hours

#​731 — April 11, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript 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 Firebase team gets in on the AI development action with a Cursor/v0/Lovable-a-like of its own for building apps in the browser. Google Some Features …

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#​730 — April 4, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Bare: 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 built on top of V8 and libuv (though it’s designed to support multiple JavaScript engines) but Bare’s approach is …

Read More “The JavaScript trademark fight rumbles on”