Better JavaScript Shell Scripting with Bun Shell — Performance-focused server-side runtime Bun continues its rapid evolution with a side quest into the world of shell scripting by making it easier, cross-platform friendly, and less verbose. zx offers similar (but less integrated and focused) functionality to Node users, if you should prefer.

Jarred Sumner (Bun)

Announcing AdonisJS v6 — If you want a backend Web framework with amazing docs and packed with features, Adonis is a good choice. v6 is a big step forward moving to ESM by default, with more type safety overall (including for routes and middleware references), a new validation library, and more.

Harminder Virk

Learn Vite, The Fast Build Tool for Modern Web Projects — Join Steve Kinney for this video course tour of Vite's capabilities, including a look at bundling, optimizing static assets, hot module reloading, and its plugin ecosystem. You'll come away proficient at using Vite to build scalable, performant apps.

Frontend Masters sponsor

QuickJS: The Small, Embeddable JavaScript Engine — Several years ago, Fabrice Bellard, the genius behind FFMPEG and JSLinux, built a tiny and complete JavaScript engine in C. It now supports ES2023 and its latest release adds top-level await in modules and its REPL, as well as support for some cutting edge JS features (changelog).

Fabrice Bellard

Web Components in Earnest — This is.. epic! If you want to really get a walk through the journey of building an entire app using Web Components and JavaScript, this is it. The app in this case is simple, but complete, and the author shows off the realities of going all in with Web Components here.

David Bryant Copeland

Complete Your AI Coding Experience with Wallaby.js — Get instant test feedback and powerful debugging for AI code suggestions.

Wallaby Team sponsor

How to Start a React Project in 2024 — Robin explains the pros and cons of a few common approaches, including using Vite, Astro, and Next.js.

Robin Wieruch

Build a Next.js App in Storybook with React Server Components and Mock Service Worker — How to develop, document, and test RSC apps in isolation, while using MSW to mock network requests.

Michael Shilman

Jint 3.0: A JavaScript Interpreter for .NET — Run JavaScript within a .NET app and expose .NET objects and functions to JavaScript code. v3 arrives after seven years of work and is the most standards-compliant JS engine running entirely within .NET.

Sébastien Ros

Mutative: A Library for Efficient Immutable Updates — A library for efficient immutable updates, boasting being 2-6x faster than naive handcrafted reducers, and even more than 10x faster than Immer. GitHub repo.

Michael Lin

Auth Without Complexity — Authentication in a Straightforward Platform — Userfront streamlines authentication & access control so engineers can focus on their core business. Read the docs now.

Userfront sponsor

React Email 2.0: Build Better Emails with React — React Email is a collection of unstyled components for creating emails using JSX and React (this example shows you the basic idea).

Gabriel Miranda (Resend)

workerpool 9.1: Offload Tasks to a Pool of Workers — A long established thread pool library that works not only on Node but also in the browser.

Jos de Jong

Microsoft TypeSpec: A TypeScript-Inspired Way to Define APIs — A language for concisely describing cloud service APIs and generating other API description languages (e.g. OpenAPI), client and service code, docs, and more. Formerly known as CADL. – GitHub repo.

Microsoft

Receive, Authenticate, Transform, Filter, Route, and Deliver Webhooks — The Hookdeck Event Gateway is a reliable platform to support event-driven application development across the full development lifecycle.

Hookdeck sponsor

Partytown 0.9: Run Third Party Scripts in a Web Worker — A way to run resource intensive scripts on a separate thread (in a web worker) to let the main thread remain responsive. GitHub repo.

Partytown

pretty-ms 9.0: Convert Milliseconds to Readable Strings — 1337000000 → 15d 11h 23m 20s

Sindre Sorhus

nmea.js: A Library to Parse Maritime Electronics Data — I’d never even heard of NMEA till now, but if you work with sonars, gyrocompasses, and similar marine electronics, this is for you.

Bruno Vieira