#726 — March 7, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly A 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’. The JavaScript section has just gone live and goes into depth on how much JS …
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#725 — February 28, 2025 Read 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. TypeScript isn’t our main focus but we do cover it, including critical pieces. That in mind, …
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#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 …
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Tracing allows developers to analyze application performance by visualizing the relationships between different processes through spans and traces.
#723 — February 14, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Style 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 a problem, the results are always fully formed with no cut corners. So it goes with this ‘exhaustively tested’ …
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If you’re working with transpiled or minified code in production, leveraging sourcemaps in N|Solid can save you hours of debugging time.
#722 — February 7, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Oracle Claims ‘JavaScript’ Isn’t a Generic Term, and More — In this ‘motion to dismiss’ Oracle has responded to Deno’s attempt to prove Oracle shouldn’t hold the JavaScript™ trademark with the argument that “relevant consumers do not perceive JAVASCRIPT as a generic term” (does Oracle …
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If you’re using Windows, there are multiple ways to update Node.js, whether you prefer a simple installer, a package manager, or a version manager.
This guide will walk you through multiple methods: using a package manager, nvm, NodeSource distribution binaries, and manually downloading
In this guide, we’ll walk through different methods, including Homebrew, Node Version Manager (nvm), and manual installation.