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 …

Will we care about frameworks in an AI world?

#​713 — November 14, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Component Party: A Rosetta Stone of UI Libraries — A long-standing comparison of many different frameworks (like React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Qwik, Solid.js, etc.) by way of simple code snippets to perform various tasks. Now including Svelte 5 and Angular 17/Renaissance. Mathieu Schimmerling Will We Care …

Node.js v22 Enters Long Term Support (LTS)

On October 29, 2024,* Node.js v22 officially transitioned into *Long Term Support (LTS) with the codename ‘Jod’. For developers and organizations relying on the stability of Node.js for production environments, this transition marks a key milestone for Node.js 22.x, ensuring it will receive critical updates and security support for years to come. Let’s take a …

JSConf is back

#​712 — November 7, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript’s ??= Operator: Default Values Made Simple — The ??= nullish coalescing assignment operator snuck into JavaScript a few years ago via ECMAScript 2021 and has been broadly supported almost everywhere for ages. Trevor shows off how it can tighten up your assignments here. Trevor …

CityJS Medellín 2024 Recap: A Thriving JavaScript Community and a Big Announcement for Latin America!

CityJS Medellín 2024 was an amazing conference that drew together both local and international developers in Medellín for an immersive experience focused on JavaScript, innovation, and collaboration. Held on October 25-26, the conference underscored Colombia’s growing influence in the tech world and showcased the talent of Colombian developers alongside renowned global experts. As the first …

Cutting JavaScript into two: trick or treat?

#​711 — October 31, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Python Jumps to #1 on GitHub Over JavaScript, But… — GitHub Universe took place this week, flooding us with data about how folks are using the platform. Of interest to those on social media was that Python has taken JavaScript’s #1 language crown, though …

A huge week for both Svelte and Next.js

#​710 — October 24, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Svelte 5 is Alive — The long awaited next major release of Svelte, the compiler-driven JS UI framework, is the “most significant release in the project’s history”, while remaining largely backwards compatible. A big addition is runes for explicitly declaring reactive state, but there’s …

A huge week for ECMAScript proposals

#​708 — October 10, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly TC39 Advances 10+ ECMAScript Proposals — The architects behind the development of the ECMAScript / JavaScript spec got together again this week (you can see them in this tweet) and they had a packed agenda. Import attributes, Iterator helpers, Promise.try and Regexp modifiers all …