Javascript Technology
#685 — April 25, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JSR is Not Another Package Manager — When Ryan created Node, JavaScript had no packages or standard module system. npm and CommonJS took off, and tools like Yarn or pnpm extended npm in certain areas, but in today’s ES modules era, it’s time for …
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#684 — April 18, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Quill 2.0: A Powerful Rich Text Editor for the Web — A major release and significant modernization for the open source WYSIWYG editor. In Announcing Quill 2.0, we learn about Quill’s transition to TypeScript and improved use of modern browser features, but there’s more …
#683 — April 11, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Frontend Development Beyond React: Svelte — A surprisingly thorough article going deep into one developer’s research into using Svelte to build modern front-end apps. If you’ve never experimented with Svelte, this is a good primer to the key concepts, tradeoffs, and techniques involved. Héla Ben …
#682 — April 4, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly A Proposal to Add Signals to JavaScript — A (very) early stage proposal for bringing a new feature to ECMAScript/JavaScript: signals! The proposal brings aboard ideas from a swathe of popular frameworks and aims to align everyone and get us on the same page …
#681 — March 28, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript Visualized: Promise Execution — A helpful diagrammed and animated article, coupled with an (optional) 8-minute video, that goes into how promises work and are scheduled behind the scenes. It’s useful to have a good mental model of these mechanics, given promises form the …
Exciting news this week! One of the latest features in Node.js core is the addition of support for requiring synchronous ECMAScript Modules (ESM) graphs. This enhancement promises to simplify the transition for package authors and users alike, as the ecosystem gradually shifts towards ESM. This long-awaited feature, enabled via the –experimental-require-module flag, marks a pivotal …
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At NodeSource, we understand the hesitance and scrutiny that often accompany claims of “Node.js compatibility”. The Node.js ecosystem is vast and intricate, and as Matteo Collina rightly points out, passing a “hello world” example is just the start. We believe N|Solid should be a component of every Node.js project, especially in production, to provide developers …
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#680 — March 21, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Runtime Compatibility Across JavaScript Runtimes — Several developers have come together to build this convenient way to visualize the compatibility of different Web APIs and JavaScript features across the ever increasing number of different runtimes (e.g. Bun, Deno, Node, LLRT..) Tom Lienard et al. …
#679 — March 14, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Use Parcel Macros in Other Bundlers with unplugin-parcel-macros — Macros, as implemented in Parcel (and Bun!), are JS functions that run at build time whose results are inlined into a bundle in place of the original call. You can now use this feature with …
#678 — March 7, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly 📒 Eloquent JavaScript Goes Fourth — Coming several years after the third edition, the latest version of, perhaps, the best ‘all rounder’ book for learning JavaScript is here: “adjusted to the realities of 2024 and generally touched up.” You can read it on the …