Javascript Technology
#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 …
#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 …
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 …
#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 …
Libuv is one of the most crucial components behind Node.js, yet many developers aren’t fully aware of its role in enabling asynchronous I/O operations.
Node.js is designed to be asynchronous and non-blocking, making it highly efficient for handling multiple operations at once.
#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 …
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#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 …
With the release of Node.js v23.6.0, developers can use TypeScript natively without additional transpilation tools like ts-node or manual compilation steps