Plus bringing JavaScript into Python (or your car), building Figma plugins, and the return of the iPod. |
| Frontend Development Beyond React: Svelte — A surprisingly thorough article going deep into one developer’s research into using Svelte to build modern front-end apps. If you’ve never experimented with Svelte, this is a good primer to the key concepts, tradeoffs, and techniques involved. Héla Ben Khalfallah |
| Add Excel-Like Spreadsheet Functionality to Your JavaScript Apps — SpreadJS is the industry-leading JavaScript spreadsheet for adding advanced spreadsheet features to your enterprise apps. Build finance, analysis, budget, and other apps. Excel I/O, 500+ calc functions, tables, charts, and more. View demos now. SpreadJS from MESCIUS inc |
| zx v8.0: Write Better Shell Scripts with Node — A popular way to make shell scripting a more pleasant experience in Node with useful wrappers around child_process, argument escaping, and sensible defaults. v8.0 makes zx 20x smaller, faster, makes it easier to kill processes, pass input to commands & more. Google |
| IN BRIEF: Val Town is a fantastic online platform for writing and deploying TypeScript functions right from the browser and has just raised $5.5m in funding. The set methods proposal advanced to stage 4 at TC39 this week. Promise.try and Math.sumPrecise have advanced to stage 2.7. 🚗 What happens if 𝕏 you hack a car with JavaScript? Cloudflare has added a JS-native RPC to Cloudflare Workers. A recap of Angular developments at the recent ngConf 2024 event. RELEASES: ESLint 9.0 – A significant release with lots of cleanups, a new no-useless-assignment rule, and numerous tweaks and changes. VitePress 1.1 – Vite & Vue-powered static site generator. npm 10.5.2 – It's now 𝕏 faster to run scripts, though we're talking milliseconds nowadays. Node.js April 10 Security Releases – Including v18.20.2 (LTS), v20.12.1 (LTS), and v21.7.3 (Current). We mentioned Gulp 5's release last week, but missed the announcing Gulp v5 post explaining why it's a big deal. |
| On Developing Figma Plugins — Some interesting observations on the experience of creating Figma plugins in JavaScript, including how they’re sandboxed and some implementation details of the author’s own plugin. Tom MacWright |
| React Server Components in a Nutshell — A quick overview of RSCs not all about Next.js, comparing the approach taken by several frameworks before sharing thoughts on the tech and why the smaller Waku framework is worth a look. Paul Scanlon (The New Stack) |
| Some DevTools Tips and Tricks — Most developers barely scratch the surface of what DevTools can accomplish, says the author, who shares ten tips here. Pankaj Parashar |
| PythonMonkey: A JavaScript Engine in the Python VM — If you need to use Python but also want to run JavaScript, this gives you a way to do it with the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JS engine embedded into the Python runtime with Python providing the host environment. Distributive |
| Color.js 0.5: 'Let’s Get Serious About Color' — A fantastic library for working with colors in the browser, following the latest specs. It’s even been used by browsers to test their CSS Color 4/5 implementations. Lea Verou and Chris Lilley |
| Mikro ORM 6.2 – TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper. SQL Server and libSQL/Turso join the list of supported databases. Rspack 0.6 – Fast Rust-based web bundler. Pixi.js 8.1 – The fast WebGL and WebGPU 2D graphics engine switches back to WebGL by default due to immature browser support. Jotai 2.8 – Simple, flexible state management for React. DOMPurify 2.5 – Fast, tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML and SVG. Reveal.js 5.1 – Framework for building presentations in HTML. Xterm.js 5.5 – Create terminal experiences on the Web. TIFF 6.0 – Pure JS TIFF image decoder. Shiki 1.3 – Powerful syntax highlighter. |
| Remember the iPod's click wheel? It's back. In JavaScript form! |
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