Plus fail-safe JSON serialization, speeding up a React component, and a naughty dog. |
| JS1024 2022 Competition Winners — JS1024 is a ‘code golfing’ contest where you get 15 days to create a JavaScript or GLSL program within 1024 bytes. This results in lots of creative ideas, complete with fantastic (non-minified) source to check out. The winning JS entry is this quirky typing game and the winning shader-based entry is a 3D tunnel experience. There’s much to learn here as these folks have used every trick in the book, including compressing 1900+ English words in a heavily commented entry that uses Brotli and a specially crafted WOFF2 font file(!) JS1024 |
| Docusaurus 2.0 Released — Docusaurus powered sites are everywhere in the JS space (e.g. the Babel docs) and after four years of effort, version 2.0 of the popular React-powered documentation-focused static site generator is here. Rebuilt from scratch, it adds MDX support, a new plugin system, theming, dark mode, SPA navigation, offline support, and more. Meta (Facebook) |
| Announcing EdgeDB 2.0 — Try the database that makes ORMs obsolete. EdgeDB’s TypeScript client has the simplicity of an ORM but the power of a full-fledged query language. And with the release of EdgeDB 2.0 it’s better than ever—read the announcement for details. EdgeDB |
| IN BRIEF: 🔎 npm query is a new command in the latest version of npm to query a project's dependencies using a CSS-like selector string. Remember the guy who built JavaScript games using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint as a canvas? He's back building ▶️ a multiplayer game in Word. Just 3 minutes and much fun. There's a new VS Code release and while the JS debugging features see improvements, ▶️ this 'sticky scrolling' feature is particularly neat as it keeps your function signatures on screen even during long functions. If you use AWS's Lambda serverless platform for running your functions and you use it a lot, their new tiered pricing structure may yield some big savings. |
| RELEASES: Parcel 2.7
Ember 4.6
Ionic 6.2 – Cross-platform app building toolkit.
Redwood 2.2 – React-backed full-stack framework.
Cypress 10.4 – Popular testing approach for anything browser-based.
Ohm 16.4 – Parser / interpreter building toolkit. |
| Checking if Native JavaScript Functions are 'Monkey Patched' — Along with JavaScript’s dynamism comes the potential for functions to be overridden (or ‘monkey patched’, as some people call the idea of runtime modifications) but there are (imperfect) ways to see if this has occurred. Matteo Mazzarolo |
| From 500ms to 1.7ms in React — A sluggish customized grid triggered a journey to analyze some bottlenecks, followed by some tweaks resulting in a dramatic perf improvement. Oren Farhi |
| ts-version: Access the Current TypeScript Version from Types — The creator puts it best: “Frustrated how TS versions handle your package slightly differently, but don’t want to ship a full copy of your types with TypesVersions? Now you can adjust your types depending on the TS version!” Lenz Weber-Tronic |
| OTHER QUICK RELEASES: React Native Boilerplate 3.5 – A starter template for RN apps.
Stripe Node 10.0 – Node.js library for Stripe's API.
Electron Store 8.1 – Simple data persistence for Electron apps.
Meriyah 4.3 – Compliant, self-hosted JS parser. (Demo)
React Spreadsheet Grid 2.3 – Excel-like grid component for React.
Inferno 8.0.2 – Fast, React-like library.
∿ Peaks.js 2.0.3 – BBC's audio waveform UI component. |
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| ❓ Did you know.. There's a useful curated list of over 150 static site generators and related resources? If you want to cast a wider net and stretch the SSG definition a little, here are hundreds more. On macOS, if you hold down Option (⌥) when resizing a window, it resizes from all directions at once? Handy for those windows that wander off screen. 🐶 Rewarding a dog for rescuing people in danger can have unintended negative consequences? |
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