#661 — November 2, 2023 |
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JavaScript Weekly |
Next.js 14 Released — Unveiled at last week’s Next.js Conf, v14 caused a lot of community discussion (not least on Hacker News), largely surrounding Server Actions being declared stable and the 'backend-meets-frontend' opportunities this opens up. A new partial prerendering feature is also in preview, allowing for dynamic responses but with the speed of an initial static response. Lee Robinson and Tim Neutkens |
💡 The New Stack has an overview of the release, and Focus Reactive has a (highly visual) recap of Next.js Conf itself – recommended if you didn't watch the stream. |
SDKs & OpenAPI Specs in Minutes Using Zod, tsoa, or Fastify — Using popular TS tooling to build your API? Our guides show you how to go from code to best in class OpenAPI specs & SDKs. Speakeasy sponsor |
Remix ❤️ Vite: Remix 2.2 Introduces Vite Support — Remix is a popular full-stack JavaScript framework that began as a paid product, but has been open source for two years now. If you found Remix’s compilation approach opaque before, we have great news: “With Vite, Remix is no longer a compiler. Remix itself is just a Vite plugin.” This post tells the full story. Cattori and Dalgleish (Remix) |
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📒 Articles & Tutorials |
Speeding Up the JavaScript Ecosystem: Tailwind CSS — Marvin’s ongoing journey to improve our ecosystem by finding low-hanging performance-bearing fruit continues with a look at how the architecture of Tailwind CSS could be tuned. Marvin Hagemeist |
A New Way to Bring Garbage Collected Languages Efficiently to WebAssembly — WasmGC is a new and promising way to implement GC languages in WebAssembly and it’s now enabled by default in Chrome. Alon Zakai (V8) |
Generally Awesome UI Components For Project Management and Scheduling — Level up your UX with advanced data grids, calendars, schedulers, and Gantt charts. Bryntum sponsor |
▶ Your Website Does Not Need JavaScript — An hour long talk in which Amy builds a completely static website — using a collection of HTML and CSS files with no tracking, no scripting, no servers, and no third-party resources. Amy Kapernick |
Building a Generic RSS Parser Service with Cloudflare Workers — Ray walks through various iterations and improvements in trying to build an RSS parser that can work in the Workers environment. Raymond Camden |
Can Next.js Handle 5000 Pages? — Christian set out to push both Next.js and AWS Amplify hard. A good read. Christian Nwamba |
🗣 Is Express Still the 'De-Facto' Choice for Building Node.js Webapps? |
🛠 Code & Tools |
Svelte Flow: Node-Based UI for Svelte — From the creators of React Flow comes a Svelte version in the shape of a customizable Svelte component for building node-based editors and interactive diagrams. Check out the examples. webkid GmbH |
Docusaurus 3.0: Meta's Static Site Generator — Docusaurus is a popular React-powered tool aimed at building documentation sites, though it handles more general sites too. v3 features an upgrade to MDX v3, React 18, Mermaid v10, and essentially updates everything. Sébastien Lorber |
Get Logged Values Right Where You Need Them: In Your Editor — Simply start your editor, and your development server/test runner in watch mode, and see values next to your code. No setup required. Wallaby Team sponsor |
Hotkey 2.2: Declarative Keyboard Shortcuts for HTML — Set a GitHub |
Is Text or Binary? 7.0 — This library first tries to determine from a filename if the contents of the associated file are likely to be binary or text. Failing that, it can then look at the actual data to figure it out. Bevry |
Zach Leatherman |
Add Authorization, MFA, Biometrics to Your JavaScript App in Minutes FusionAuth sponsor |
lossless-json: Parse JSON Without Losing Numeric Information — Jos de Jong |
Vueform: An Open Source Form Framework for Vue.js — This has been around for a while but is now MIT licensed. Its ancillary form builder app stays commercial, but isn't mandatory for using the library. GitHub repo. Vueform |
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💛 And something else we love |
Val Town 3.0: A Social Way to Write and Deploy TypeScript — “If GitHub Gists Could Run, and AWS Lambda Were Fun” is a fantastic description for this online platform where you write tiny bite size functions (‘val’s) to be run in V8 isolates. You can connect them together, schedule them, serve them up over HTTP, and more. Version 3 is a big jump for the platform, adding JSX support, more standardized JavaScript approaches to solving problems, and the ability to edit and run your ‘vals’ locally. Steve Krouse |