#596 — July 1, 2022 |
🤯 Things looked quiet at first, but this has turned out to be a pretty strong week in terms of releases and things – we've even had to push a new Vue release and a new Deno webapp framework to the bottom of the issue! Long may it last, though, because soon August and quieter weeks will be here.. :-) |
JavaScript Weekly |
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| ▶ Svelte Origins: A JavaScript Documentary — A well produced 32-minute documentary catching up with Svelte’s creator Rich Harris, as well as some of its users and fans, really digging into where it came from, what makes it tick, and how it has built up a healthy community of its own. Heartwarming and educational! OfferZen Origins |
PRETTIER TO PICK TABS OVER SPACES? Continuing the Rich Harris party, over on Twitter he notes that 🐦 Prettier 3.0 is considering making tabs the default (versus spaces). Why? Accessibility, partly, although unsurprisingly there are arguments for spaces too.. 🫢 |
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| 🎨 Releasing Color.js: A Library That Takes Color Seriously — It’s always fantastic to see Lea involved with a project, and this new one, built along with ‘father of SVG’ Chris Lilley, feels incredibly well-honed if you need to work with color spaces, CSS color specs, and other such technicalities. Lea Verou and Chris Lilley |
| Highlights from OpenJS World 2022 — OpenJS World took place in early June and this post covers some of the talking points, top talks, and what made the event special. There’s a YouTube playlist of over 50 talks from the event too. Marian Villa (NodeSource) |
📊 Along similar lines is a 70-page 'Vue Report' on the state of the Vue.js community and project based on discussions at the recent Vue Amsterdam conference. A great way to catch up and no registration or emails needed. |
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| RELEASES: Prisma 4.0 – Powerful TypeScript ORM. |
📒 Articles & Tutorials |
| ES2022: The Main New Features, Quickly, in Code — If you want to see what’s new in ES2022 in quick-fire, code-only form, this is for you. In related news, Hemanth also ▶️ gave a talk about how to read the spec at OpenJS World last month. Hemanth HM |
| Retry XMLHttpRequest Carefully — When requests your page is making behind the scenes fail, what’s your strategy for a retry or recovery? It’s worth taking a look, says Aaron. Aaron D. Parks |
| Stop the Screen Going to Sleep with JavaScript — An explanation of how to use the Screen Wake Lock API. Michael Walter Van Der Velden |
| Designing the Ultimate Query Builder for TypeScript — Feeling limited by your ORM or SQL? EdgeDB’s query builder brings typesafe data access to a new level. EdgeDB sponsor |
| Working with the File System from Node.js — A deep dive on all things related to working with text files in Node, from simple reading and writing operations to streams, buffers, and directory manipulation. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer |
| Using JavaScript to Fill Matteo Mazzarolo |
| ▶ Coding Tetris in JavaScript: The ASMR Version — Well produced, calming coding videos seem to be becoming a thing. Servet Gulnaroglu |
| 'Angular Without SSR is Faster Than Next.js with SSR. I Have The Data.' |
| The Many Definitions of 'Server-Side Rendering' |
| A Look At Nx, The Fastest Growing Monorepo Solution in the JS Ecosystem? |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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| Sigma.js 2: High Performance Interactive Rendering of Large Graphs — The story of how a complete rewrite came together through several years of work on this library for doing very large scale rendering of graphs in the browser. GitHub repo. Guillaume, Alexis, et al. |
| Vue 2.7 'Naruto' Released — While Vue 3 is the new default, so many projects continue to rely on Vue 2 and so 2.7 has been released as an LTS release to help bridge the gap with a few backported features (including the Composition API), improved Vite support (via a new plugin), and more. Nonetheless, Vue 2 is expected to reach ‘end of life’ by ‘the end of 2023.’ Evan You |
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| 🦖 Fresh 1.0: A Server-Side Rendering Based Deno Framework — Fresh out of the Deno project (see what we did there) comes a new full stack web framework for Deno powered by Preact. It’s been getting a lot of buzz on social this past week. Luca Casonato |
| neovis.js 2.0: Neo4j + vis.js → Graph Visualizations in the Browser — Takes data from the Neo4j graph database and uses vis.js to visualize it. Neo4j |
| Serverless-Express 4.9: Run Existing Node.js Frameworks on AWS Lambda or Azure Functions — The idea is that you can build HTTP APIs in the usual way on top of Express, Koa, Hapi, etc. with this providing the wrapper to let them run on AWS Lambda or Azure Functions. Vendia Inc |
| trim-lines 3.0: Remove Spaces and Tabs Around Line Breaks — “It might look trivial, but it’s actually pretty complex to get performant.” Titus Wormer |
| Handsontable 12: A Mature Data Grid That Feels Like a Spreadsheet — Plain JavaScript, Vue, Angular, React - it works with them all (demo). Note its dual license which only makes it free for evaluation or non-commercial use. GitHub repo. Handsoncode |
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