TypeScript 5.2, Node 20.6, and Astro 3.0

Astro 3.0 Released: The All-in-One Web Framework — An increasingly popular, turbo-charged site generator comfortable with not just static sites, but dynamic and interactive ones too by way of its ‘islands’ approach. You can use React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, and others, with it, and v3 adds View Transitions API support (more on that here) which can result in striking creations like this Spotify 'clone'. It requires a play to really 'get it' but it's great.

Astro Team

Node.js 20.6 Released with Built-In Support for .env Files — The official release post covers everything new in 20.6, but the highlight is support for .env environment files to set environment variables dynamically when a script is run without requiring a third-party library like dotenv.

Phil Nash

Simplify Security and Compliance for Your Apps — Introducing Pangea: comprehensive API-based security services for developers. Effortlessly integrate foundational security services like Authentication, Authorization, and Audit Logging to create a safer app experience and accelerate your time to market.

Pangea sponsor

Bye to Rome and Hi to Biome for JS Formatting and Linting — First announced in 2020, Rome is/was an ambitious effort to create a unified frontend dev tool to bring ideas from Babel, ESLint, webpack, etc. into one place. After forming a company around Rome and raising money two years ago, things seem to have gone awry, with its key maintainers forking the project as Biome.

Emanuele Stoppa and the Biome Team

Making Sense of React Server Components — This is fantastic and exactly what it says on the tin, – we'll be focusing on it more in next week's React Status newsletter though 😉

Josh W Comeau

You Don't Need to Learn Svelte – Here's Why — I mean.. you kinda do, but Kavii’s excitement is infectious and Svelte’s approach remains refreshing.

Kavii Suri

item: Using Labeled Loops in JavaScript — If using labels gives you flashbacks to BASIC and GOTO statements, I sympathize, but in JavaScript, labels open up an interesting control flow technique. More about this on MDN. continue item;

Ben Nadel

Build a Documentation Chatbot with ChatGPT and EdgeDB — Let's do it using EdgeDB's intuitive data model & query language, as well as its powerful TypeScript query builder.

EdgeDB sponsor

A Wide View of Automated Testing in React Apps — A straightforward and to the point introduction to why you might use automated testing, how to get going in the scope of a React app, and what to be testing.

The React Handbook

How to Create a Dual-Mode Cross-Runtime JavaScript Package — Specifically, supporting both ESM and CommonJS, and across runtimes like Node, Deno and the browser.

Hexagon

Benchmarking 24 CSV Parsing Approaches — The most extensive CSV parsing benchmark I’ve seen. The author is himself the creator of the μDSV CSV parsing library and wanted to check out the common ‘lightning fast performance’ claims of other libaries.

Leon Sorokin

The Complexity of Building an Efficient Node.js Docker Image — It’s possible to get huge reductions in image size and build time and Samuel shares his approach here, but he also questions whether all this work should be necessary.

Samuel Bodin

Learn High-Level Compilers, Tools, & Techniques – in JavaScript!

Dmitry Soshnikov Education sponsor

Peaks.js 3.0: View and Interact with Audio Waveforms — A JavaScript component for browser-based audio waveform visualization that comes from the BBC’s R&D department. There’s a live example on the homepage. GitHub repo.

BBC

🎸 SVGuitar: Create SVG-Based Guitar Chord Charts — Why not continue with the musical theme? 😁 You can experiment with this one via this live demo.

Raphael Voellmy

FormKit 1.0: The Open-Source Form Framework for Vue — Ships with production-ready scaffolding like inputs, forms, submission and error handling, and validation rules.

FormKit, Inc.

Add Authorization, MFA, Biometrics and More to Your JavaScript App in Just Minutes — It's about time that somebody talked some sense about OAuth and JavaScript. So we did. You're welcome.

FusionAuth sponsor

Plate: Roll Your Own Slate-Based Rich-Text Editor — A framework for building React-based rich text editors where you can select the specific features and functionality you need. GitHub repo.

Ziad Beyens

Math.js: An Extensive Math Library for Node and Browser — Work with complex numbers, fractions, units, matrices, symbolic computation, etc. A long standing library now, but continuing to get frequent updates. GitHub repo.

Jos de Jong

Calendar.js: A Calendar Control with Drag and Drop — A responsive calendar with no dependencies, full drag and drop support (even between calendars) and many ways to manage events with recurring events, exporting, holidays, and more.

William Troup