How Dropbox Reduced the Size of Its JavaScript Bundles by 33% — The folks at Dropbox realize that when you’re operating at scale, small annoyances and delays add up, and their web perf team narrowed down some of Dropbox’s perf issues to their module bundling process.

Nadeem and Hong (Dropbox)

htmx is Part of the GitHub Accelerator — htmx is a perfect example of a library that isn’t brand new, but one that becomes popular once the time is right. Its success is only continuing following acceptance into the first class of GitHub’s open-source Accelerator initiative, an opportunity that will enable the development of htmx 2.0. GitHub repo.

Big Sky Software

You Might Not Need a Framework — Maximiliano Firtman shares the vanilla approach in this video course on building rich web apps and sites without depending on libraries of frameworks. It covers the DOM, event handling, routing, web components, and more.

Frontend Masters sponsor

You Don't (May Not) Need Lodash or Underscore — Inspired by the popular You Might Not Need jQuery, this extensive document provides pure JavaScript alternatives to almost 100 different functions as you’d find in popular utility libraries like Lodash.

You Don't Need

Discover three.js: A Complete Guide to Creating 3D Web Experiences — The breadth of the content on offer here had me looking for the price, but it’s all online and free. There’s a lot to dig through here if you want to get started (or just get better) at using three.js. If you’re already familiar with three.js, you may enjoy the three.js tips and tricks page.

Lewy Blue

JSX Without React — Exploring a new tool called NakedJSX that will allow you to render JSX without the need for the full React framework.

Chris Coyier

React Authentication — Without Complexity — Userfront streamlines authentication & access control so engineers can focus on their core business. Read the docs now.

Userfront sponsor

You’ve Got Options for Removing Event Listeners — Reviewing some of the most common approaches available to remove event listeners in JavaScript.

Alex MacArthur

Prepare Your Firefox Desktop Extension for the Upcoming Android Release — “Firefox will become the only major Android browser to support an open extension ecosystem.”

Scott DeVaney (Mozilla)

Croner 7.0: Cron for JavaScript and TypeScript — Trigger functions upon the schedule of your choice using the classic cron syntax. Works in Node, Deno, Bun and the browser, across time zones, offers error handling and overrun protection, and more. There’s an live demo on JSFiddle. v7.0 adds support for specifying the n-th weekday.

Hexagon

Linkify 4.1: Link Up URLs, Email Addresses, and More in Plain Text — Given some plain text containing things like links and emails, Linkify will generate the correct code to display it on the Web. Not just URLs or emails, but hashtags, @mentions, IP addresses, and more – see the homepage for examples. GitHub repo.

Hypercontext

🦘JavaScript Scratchpad for VS Code: New Logpoints Feature! — Seeing runtime values has never been so easy. Simply place a breakpoint on a line, no debugger required: zero setup/configuration.

Wallaby.js sponsor

deno_python: Python Interpreter Bindings for Deno — A seamless Deno-Python integration via the Python/C API. The latest release supports installing and importing pip packages. This feature has been described as “slightly cursed” but it’s certainly interesting.

Denosaurs

Tagger: A Zero Dependency, Vanilla JavaScript Tagging Library — You can play with a live demo here.

Jakub T. Jankiewicz

Over 100 Algorithms and Data Structures Demonstrated in JS — Examples of many common algorithms (e.g. bit manipulation, Pascal’s triangle, Hamming distance) and data structures (e.g. linked lists, tries, graphs) with explanations. Available in other languages too like Chinese, Korean, French, and Spanish.

Oleksii Trekhleb et al.

Deliver Interactive Real-Time Live Streams with Amazon IVS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) sponsor

Proto Tree: A Way to Observe the JS Prototype Chain — Gal explains the motivation for this tool in 🐦 this Twitter thread.

Gal Weizman

Barba.js: For Smooth Visual Transitions Between Pages — You certainly can’t say the project’s homepage doesn’t show off all of its features. For such a dramatic set of effects, things feel smooth and surprisingly nice 😁 GitHub repo.

De Rosa, Michel, et al.

Stritch: A JavaScript Barcode Scanning Library — It’s a commercial library, but featureful and well presented with support for a variety of 1D and 2D barcode types.

Pixelverse LLC

#Script: A JS-Inspired Scripting Language for .NET — An embeddable scripting language mostly targeting template use cases. It can also be used in a Lisp style.

ServiceStack

ngraph.path: Path Finding Through Graphs — There’s a live demo if you want to see how it tackles the road network of several global cities.

Andrei Kashcha