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#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 …
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#714 — November 21, 2024 Read on the Web 🦃 We’re taking next week off for Thanksgiving. We don’t celebrate it in our country, but we know many of you do, so it seemed a good time for a break. We’ll be back on Thursday December 5.__Your editor, Peter Cooper JavaScript Weekly Importing a Frontend JavaScript …
#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 …
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 …
#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 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 …
#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 …
#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 …
#709 — October 17, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The Story of Web Framework Hono, By Its Creator — Hono is a neat, lightweight framework designed to run on any JavaScript runtime that has been picking up steam in the past year. You can create a simple app reminiscent of Express.js, say, but …
#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 …