Understanding Why a Build Got 15x Slower with Webpack 5 — Two engineers began to encounter their front-end build process taking minutes rather than seconds and wondered what was up. This is their brief yet technical explanation of how they debugged it and how Webpack got a fix.

Eoin Hennessy (Tines)

Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript — These sorts of stories always seem to be popular as teams weigh up the best way to progress. Etsy had a lot of JavaScript code but felt some of the problems they were encountering could be solved by TypeScript. This post digs into the approach they took and “what it took to educate an Etsy-sized company in a new programming language”.

Salem Hilal

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Some Notes on Using 'esbuild' — Julia Evans’ walk into the world of JavaScript bundling will be of immediate interest to anyone who’s been doing JavaScript since pre-bundling times, and it digs well into how an experienced developer unfamiliar with esbuild interprets what it really does.

Julia Evans

TypeScript 4.5 Released — Just two weeks after the RC comes the final release. What’s new? The formerly promised ES module support for Node is now merely experimental and in nightly releases only, but you also get the Awaited type, tail recursion elimination on conditional types, and naturally much more.

Daniel Rosenwasser (Microsoft)

React 18 Enters Beta Stage — ..but as the official Twitter account explains in a thread: “Most developers don’t need to think about React 18 yet..” while noting they're keen for people to try it out and leave feedback on the issue tracker. The final release is due in Q1 2022.

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How to Build Stunning 3D Scenes with React Three Fiber — If you want to build neat 3D visualizations in the browser using the React concepts you’re already familiar with, here’s how to get started. A great intro.

Varun Vachhar

Powerful Command Line Tools for Modern Web Development — What’s your favorite command-line tool? In this post, Louis shares a collection of relevant command-line apps and utilities that he has personally come across in the past few years.

Louis Lazaris

Migrating from Puppeteer to Playwright — Puppeteer is a popular Node library to remote control Chrome/Chromium browsers, whereas Playwright is a little broader and newer. This post digs through what you need to consider if you switch between the two.

Checkly

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Using Web Workers to Boost Third-Party Script Performance — A look at Partytown, a still experimental library that aims to improve third-party script performance using Web Worker technology.

Arek Nawo

How to Debounce and Throttle Callbacks in Vue — How to debounce and throttle watchers and event handlers in Vue components.

Dmitri Pavlutin

Dexie.js 3.2: The IndexedDB Wrapper is Now Reactive — Dexie provides a well thought out wrapper around the IndexedDB API offered by most mainstream browsers and now it integrates even better with reactive UI libraries too. The homepage has had a facelift too and includes framework specific examples.

David Fahlander

Electron 16.0.0 Released — Electron, the toolkit for building cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, is now one of those projects with a fast, regular release cadence, so no huge changes here, but you get Chrome 96, Node 16.9.1 and V8 9.6 support, as well as the WebHID API.

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App Performance Blocked By Your Database? — PolyScale provides a plug-and-play database edge cache. Scale globally in minutes without writing code.

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MicroDiff: Lightweight, No Dependency Object and Array Comparison — Given two objects or arrays, it returns the differences. Boasts high performance and TypeScript support.

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React Location: A New 'Enterprise-Grade' React App Router — An effort which got its start “as a wrapper around the long-winded [React Router] v6 beta release” has spun off as a standalone project of its own.

Tanner Linsley

browser-or-node 2.0: Figure Out Where Your Code is Running — Provides a simple way to tell if your code is currently running in a browser, in Node, in a Web Worker, or in Deno.

Dinesh Pandiyan

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Geodesy Functions Implemented in JavaScript v2.3.0 — Geodesy is the science of measuring the earth, its shape, distances, etc. If you have a need to work with such concepts, these examples will be useful.

Chris Veness