The tale of a bizarre bug encountered in Google Docs

#​729 — March 28, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript 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 there’s plenty of both) but a thorough update on the state of both projects and an interview …

The Rsdoctor will see you now

#​728 — March 21, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Rsdoctor 1.0: An Analyzer for Rspack and Webpack — A one-stop, intelligent build analyzer making it easier to identify bottlenecks and optimize performance. It’s part of the same family of tools as Rspack (a Rust-powered web bundler) but is fully webpack compatible. If you’ve …

Can you understand this JavaScript?

#​727 — March 14, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly A Perplexing JavaScript Parsing Puzzle — It looks deceptively simple – just 14 characters of JavaScript – but after working with JavaScript for 29 years, I got it wrong. A clue: it goes back to a browser-related quirk from 30 years ago.. Hillel Wayne TypeScript’s …

The latest from TC39’s recent meeting

#​724 — February 21, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly TC39 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 roundup from this week’s meeting in Seattle. Areas covered include near-term features like Float16Array and import defer to more …