An introduction to building live collaborative JS apps

#​719 — January 17, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Learn Yjs and Building Realtime Collaborative Apps in JavaScript — Yjs is a CRDT (Conflict-free replicated data type) library for building collaborative and local-first apps. CDRTs are powerful but can be tricky to ‘get’ which is why this new interactive Yjs tutorial is so …

The projects that shaped JavaScript in 2024

#​718 — January 10, 2025 Read 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 out by a variety of big news items landing on Thursdays in recent years, we’re back 😉__Your editor, Peter …

Benchmarking Node’s recent performance enhancements

#​716 — December 12, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Boa v0.20: An Alternative JavaScript Compiler — Under development for several years, Boa has a few missions: be a Rust ECMAScript implementation, be easy to embed in Rust projects, and be a fast, safe JS engine overall. v0.20 sees a bump up to 89.92% …

Oracle engages its lawyers and JavaScript turns 29

#​715 — December 5, 2024 Read 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 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper JavaScript™ Weekly Deno v. Oracle: Cancelling the JavaScript Trademark — Did …