Javascript Technology
#705 — September 19, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript™? Weekly ‘Oracle, It’s Time to Free JavaScript.’ — It’s long been a bone of contention that Oracle owns the trademark for ‘JavaScript’ (we put out a call two years ago) but this marks the first serious effort to try and change that, including petitioning the …
#704 — September 12, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The State of ES5 on the Web — Some of the earlier JavaScript build tools focused on allowing developers to write modern JavaScript code that could still run on the browsers of the time by compiling code down to ES5. Time has moved on, …
#703 — September 5, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly An SSR Performance Showdown — Fastify’s Matteo Collina set out to find the current state of server-side rendering performance across today’s most popular libraries. The first attempt faced negative feedback due to implementation issues, but the showdown has been improved and re-run. Matteo Collina Announcing …
#702 — August 29, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Rspack 1.0: The Rust-Powered JavaScript Bundler — Far from being ‘yet another bundler’ with its own approach and terminology to learn, Rspack prides itself on being webpack API and ecosystem compatible, while offering many times the performance. The team now considers it production ready …
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#701 — August 22, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Regexes Got Good: The History (and Future) of Regular Expressions in JavaScript — Regular expression support was always a little underwhelming in JS, but things have improved. Steven takes us on a tour to refresh our knowledge, as well as show off his ‘regex’ …
#700 — August 15, 2024 Read on the Web 👋 Wow, issue 700! We’re back after a week away. Technically I’m still on vacation, but I didn’t want to leave you in the lurch for too long.. 😉__Peter Cooper, your editor JavaScript Weekly ECMAScript Safe Assignment Operator Proposal — We often feature ECMAScript proposals that …
#699 — August 1, 2024 Read on the Web 🏖️ Hi! Just a quick note to say that we’re taking next week off for a brief summer break. We’ll be back with our next issue on August 15.__Peter Cooper, your editor JavaScript Weekly How Google Handles JavaScript In Its Indexing Process — Once, if you …
#698 — July 25, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Astro 4.12: Say Hello to Server Islands — The flexible Astro framework for building modern content-based sites continues to go from strength to strength. v4.12 includes a new concept of server islands, a way to integrate static HTML and server-side generated components together. Erika and …
#697 — July 18, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Exploring JS: JavaScript Books for Programmers — You’ll know Dr. Axel from his fantastic blog posts over the years, or his once tenure as JavaScript Weekly’s editor, but he also has an impressive array of no-nonsense books that you can mostly read for free …