Javascript Technology
#651 — August 10, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM — What a post! Mark, well known for his work on React, Redux, and much more, details the painful experiences and hard-earned lessons he picked up while migrating the Redux packages to ES modules. Mark ‘acemarke’ Erikson Things You Forgot …
We are excited to release Serverless Observability for N|Solid with support for AWS Lambda. With the growth of organizations leveraging serverless increasing as they realize the performance and cost benefits, we’re excited to provide customers with this new visibility into the health and performance of their Node.js apps utilizing Serverless Functions utilizing serverless architectures. Img …
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#650 — August 3, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly A Tale of Evading JavaScript Anti-Debugging Techniques — When you’re poking arounddebugging code written and distributed by a third party, there might be some sneaky traps thrown in your path to prevent your usual techniques from working. What next? Disable breakpoints in DevTools? Use …
#649 — July 27, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Hono + Htmx + Cloudflare: A New Stack? — A lot of people seem to be jumping on htmx lately as an alternative to the complexity of frameworks like React, but what if you want to keep using JSX? Hono is a (vaguely Express-like) …
Startups face numerous challenges on their path to success, and two key aspects that significantly impact their growth are code quality and user experience. In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, startups must prioritize these areas to build robust, scalable, and secure applications. This is where N|Solid can be a dynamic solution by providing powerful telemetry, insights, …
#648 — July 20, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly pkg-size: Find the True, Current Size of an npm Package Without Leaving Your Browser — A beautifully designed site that can show you the true size of an npm package (including dependencies) using the actual packages which are ‘installed’ in a browser-based WebContainers-powered environment. …
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We made some big announcements during our keynote at Collision in Toronto; our AI Assistant, Adrian, and the open sourcing of our Node.js Runtime, N|Solid Runtime. They are a big part of our vision for the future of software development, one that is powered by telemetry, security, and AI – which was the topic of …
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#647 — July 13, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Driver.js: Create On-Page Tours, Highlights, and Contextual Help — A no-dependency, vanilla JavaScript library for putting together page tours and contextual help systems. The project is a few years old but has just been entirely rewritten and gained numerous enhancements, plus a huge lick …
NodeSource is excited to announce N|Solid v4.9.5 which contains the following changes: General stability improvements and bug fixes. Node.js v16.20.1 (LTS): Includes a Rebase of N|Solid on Node.js v16.20.1 (LTS). Node.js v18.16.1 (LTS): Includes a Rebase of N|Solid on Node.js v18.16.1 (LTS). For detailed information on installing and using N|Solid, please refer to the N|Solid …
#646 — July 6, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly What’s Next for JavaScript: New Features to Look Forward to — A reassuring and high level look at just what goes into making JavaScript better over time, along with some of the new things about to appear or still making their way through the …