An Interactive Intro to CRDTs — Conflict-free replicated data types (the so-called CRDTs) provide a popular approach to replicate data across numerous clients and allow live collaboration between them without conflicts. This post really digs into what makes CRDTs tick well, complete with interactive examples.

Jake Lazaroff

Test Assertion Styles in JavaScript — Isaac, fundamental to the development of npm and the growth of Node, shares his thoughts on the two main approaches common in JavaScript testing APIs and which he prefers best.

Isaac Z. Schlueter

Free Course: Land a Software Engineering Role — Jerome Hardaway has helps over 300 folks get a software development job — now he shares his advice in this video course — featuring resume tips, networking advice, how to optimize your GitHub profile for technical scrutiny, and more.

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'Strong Static Typing, A Hill I'm Willing to Die On...' — Starting off with TypeScript and moving on to Rust, the author shares why he feels so strongly that when it comes to having static types in a language, there really is no argument. (This then led to extensive discussion on Hacker News.)

Tom Hacohen

📗  The Story of Third-Party JavaScript (The Book) — Manning published a book by Ben Vinegar and Anton Kovalyov ten years ago that was entirely focused on writing JavaScript to run on other people’s sites – quite apt as the authors worked at Disqus at the time! This post isn’t about the topic itself but goes deep into how the book came together and how well it did.

Ben Vinegar

📅  JetBrains JavaScript Day 2023: A Virtual Event You Won’t Want to Miss — Get up to speed with modern JavaScript and TypeScript development in just one day.

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Working with a TypeScript Monorepo with npm Workspaces — npm’s workspaces feature makes it easier to manage multiple packages within a single top-level package/monorepo.

Dmitry Kudryavtsev

Test Your React Libraries Locally with Yalc — Yalc simplifies the process of working with and ‘publishing’ packages entirely locally so you can try things out without publishing to a remote, and potentially public, registry.

Andrew Israel (PropelAuth Blog)

Tailwind Elements 1.0: 500+ Bootstrap Components Recreated with Tailwind — Claims to offer more functionality compared to Bootstrap and follows a 'minimal' Material-esque design language for user familiarity. Easily integrates with Angular, Vue, etc.

Tailwind Elements

Lite YouTube Embed 0.3: A Faster Youtube Embed — Faster than the official one, at least. v0.3 implements reliable autoplay. There’s a live demo here.

Paul Irish

Day.js: A 2KB Immutable Date Library — Pitched as a Moment.js alternative with a mostly compatible API, Day is a smaller library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and displaying dates and times.

iamkun

Stop Feeling Lost and Inefficient When Debugging via console.log — See console.log output and runtime errors alongside your code. No config, no setup, no hassle. Supports Vite, Bun, Webpack, Next.js, Remix, and more.

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Viselect: Let Users Visually Select DOM Elements — If you’ve got a variety of elements and you want users to be able to select them in groups, individually, or even in multiple groups, this lets you offer that functionality easily. Can be used in a vanilla fashion or with integrations for React or Vue.js.

Simon Reinisch

Tailwind Next.js Starter Blog 2.0: A Starter Template for a Next.js Blog — An up-to-date template using the modern Next.js app directory structure along with server components. A full explanation of the updates.

Timothy Lin

Kaluma: A Tiny JS Runtime for the Raspberry Pi Pico — Can you get a JavaScript runtime into the 64KB necessary to run on the Raspberry Pi Pico (which uses the RP2040 microcontroller)? Kaluma can.

Kaluma Project

sort-on 6.0: Sort Arrays on an Object Property — Short & sweet. Samples.

Sindre Sorhus

Craft.js 0.2: A React Framework for Building Drag and Drop Page Editors — It’s a bold move to make the landing page for your project be a text editor itself, but we like it. GitHub repo.

Prev Wong

Create Collaborative Apps Like Figma and Miro in Days with Ably

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Awesome VS Code: A Curated List of Themes and Extensions — Yep, it’s one of those ‘awesome’ lists, but it's packed not only with links to themes and useful extensions, but it has screenshots for most of them too. Skim through, something will jump out at you.

Valerii Iatsko