Angular v16 Released — With the “biggest release since the initial rollout of Angular”, v16 of the extensive framework introduces a preview of a new signals-based reactivity model (a.k.a. Angular Signals), RxJS interop, improved SSR and hydration, experimental esbuild support, Jest unit testing, and more.

Minko Gechev

Qwik Reaches v1.0 — In “other big JS frameworks that aren’t React” news, Qwik has hit a major milestone too. Qwik’s selling point remains performance through serving up as little code as needed on initial page load. “Think of it as streaming for your JavaScript,” they say. Nonetheless, you get the JSX, directory-based routing, and middleware options you may be familiar with.

Qwik Team

Bring Your Team from Zero to 100 Deploys a Day — Curious about how companies such as Atlassian, Google, and Netflix deploy hundreds of times a day? What strategies do they use to achieve efficiency? This guide provides you with tips and tricks on how these companies scaled their deployments so that you can do the same.

Sleuth sponsor

🇩🇪  The German Government Invests in JavaScript — Sort of. Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund has made a big investment in the OpenJS Foundation, a Linux Foundation project that supports the JS ecosystem and hosts projects including Electron, jQuery, Node.js, Node-RED, and webpack.

Robin Ginn (OpenJS Foundation)

A Practical Guide to Not Blocking the Event Loop — Engines typically run JavaScript in a single thread with an event loop. However, the nature of mixing synchronous and asynchronous tasks, along with the increasing popularity of workers for running code on separate threads, makes the landscape harder to navigate than it used to be.

Slava Knyazev

The Interactive Guide to Rendering in React — An interactive, illustrated guide exploring why, when and how React renders, complete with a series of well thought out animations.

Tyler McGinnis

Breakpoints and console.log Is the Past, Time Travel Is the Future — 15x faster JavaScript debugging than with breakpoints and console.log, supports Vitest, jest, karma, jasmine, and more.

Wallaby.js sponsor

The const 'Deception' — If the exact role of const has confused you in the past, this will be a handy primer that digs into the distinction between “assignment” and “mutation” in JavaScript.

Josh W Comeau

Write Better CSS by Borrowing Ideas from JS? — A curious look at taking best practices from the JavaScript space for writing better CSS.

Yaphi Berhanu

Crafting the Next.js Website — The official Next.js site is impressive, but what went into it? One of the designers shares some of the implementation details which aren’t particularly React-y but may prove inspiring to you.

Rauno Freiberg

date-fns 2.30: A Modern Date Utility Library — It’s been a couple of years since we linked to this “lodash for dates” that’s packed with over 200 date and time manipulation functions, but it continues to get updates and a v3 is on the way. GitHub repo.

Sasha Koss

Chart.js 4.3: Canvas-Based Charts for the Web — One of those libraries that feels like it’s been there forever but still looks fresh and continues to get good updates. Bar, line, area, bubble, pie, fonut, scatter, and radar charts are all a piece of cake to render. Samples and GitHub repo.

Chart.js Contributors

Beautiful Security and License Compliance Reports for Your App’s Dependencies — Free & Open Source: Try the Better NPM Audit for Your App Now.

Sandworm․dev sponsor

Axios 1.4: Promise-Based HTTP Client for Browser and Node — A long standing project and still getting frequent updates despite rapidly being seen as the 'jQuery of HTTP request libraries.' If you need it, you’ll know.

Matt Zabriskie

Marked.js 5.0: A Fast Markdown Parser and Compiler — A low-level Markdown compiler built for speed and available as a client-side library, server-side library, and even a CLI. v5.0 deprecates some options in favor of using external plugins. Here’s a live demo.

Christopher Jeffrey

Mock Service Worker 1.2: REST/GraphQL API Mocking Library — Intercepts requests which you can then mock. Capture outgoing requests using an Express-like routing syntax, complete with parameters, wildcards, and regexes. GitHub repo.

Artem Zakharchenko

The Fastest JavaScript Data Grid Component

Bryntum Grid sponsor

Pretty TypeScript Errors: Make Errors Prettier and Human-Readable in VS Code

Yoav Balasiano

next-sitemap: Sitemap Generator for Next.js Apps

Vishnu Sankar