Javascript Technology
#724 — February 21, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly TC39 Advances 3 Proposals to Stage 4 — I love seeing Rob Palmer’s tweets about TC39’s progression of JavaScript proposals and this is a good roundup from this week’s meeting in Seattle. Areas covered include near-term features like Float16Array and import defer to more …
Tracing allows developers to analyze application performance by visualizing the relationships between different processes through spans and traces.
#723 — February 14, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Style Observer: A Library to Observe CSS Property Changes — Lea Verou is a developer who’s easy to admire because whenever she sets out to solve a problem, the results are always fully formed with no cut corners. So it goes with this ‘exhaustively tested’ …
If you’re working with transpiled or minified code in production, leveraging sourcemaps in N|Solid can save you hours of debugging time.
#722 — February 7, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Oracle Claims ‘JavaScript’ Isn’t a Generic Term, and More — In this ‘motion to dismiss’ Oracle has responded to Deno’s attempt to prove Oracle shouldn’t hold the JavaScript™ trademark with the argument that “relevant consumers do not perceive JAVASCRIPT as a generic term” (does Oracle …
If you’re using Windows, there are multiple ways to update Node.js, whether you prefer a simple installer, a package manager, or a version manager.
This guide will walk you through multiple methods: using a package manager, nvm, NodeSource distribution binaries, and manually downloading
In this guide, we’ll walk through different methods, including Homebrew, Node Version Manager (nvm), and manual installation.
#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 …
In this article, we’ll explore how Node.js works, its architecture, key features, advantages, challenges, and its role in the future of web development.