A WebAssembly compiler in 192 bytes

#​721 — January 31, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Things People Get Wrong About Electron — A long-time maintainer of the wildly successful Electron cross-platform app framework stands by the technical choices Electron has made over the years and defends it against some of the more common criticisms here. Felix Rieseberg Standard Schema: A …

An introduction to building live collaborative JS apps

#​719 — January 17, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Learn Yjs and Building Realtime Collaborative Apps in JavaScript — Yjs is a CRDT (Conflict-free replicated data type) library for building collaborative and local-first apps. CDRTs are powerful but can be tricky to ‘get’ which is why this new interactive Yjs tutorial is so …

The projects that shaped JavaScript in 2024

#​718 — January 10, 2025 Read on the Web 🗓️ Friday is the new Thursday! If you were a JavaScript Weekly reader several years ago, you might remember it always landed on Fridays and after getting caught out by a variety of big news items landing on Thursdays in recent years, we’re back 😉__Your editor, Peter …