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#664 — November 23, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyTime to Take the State of JavaScript 2023— The long standing State of JavaScript survey is back for another run at figuring out what the...
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#665 — November 30, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyEliminating JS Framework Lock-in with Web Components?— Can you build an app where each component is using a different framework? Amazingly, yes....
View ArticleLearning JS framework concepts by building one
#666 — December 7, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyLearn How Modern JS Frameworks Work by Building One— Building things is a great way to learn, even if you don’t end up using what you built. Even...
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#667 — December 14, 2023Read on the Web✍️ Christmas is almost here, so we're preparing our annual roundup issue for next week, before we take some time off! Keep an eye out for that next Thursday...
View ArticleReflecting on a big year for JavaScript
#668 — December 21, 2023Read on the Web🎄 Welcome to the final issue of 2023! We're taking a week off for Christmas, so this issue focuses on looking back at the past year and the items that intrigued...
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#669 — January 4, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly🌟 The 2023 JavaScript Rising Stars— At the start of each year, Michael rounds up the projects that gained the most popularity on GitHub in the...
View ArticleIs htmx Just Another JS Framework?
#670 — January 11, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyIs htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?— Despite being four years old, htmx has seen a surge in popularity recently, parly due to fatigue with...
View ArticleAstro + htmx + Alpine.js == AHA
#671 — January 18, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript Weeklyconsole.delight— You use console.log to output text, but did you know that in the browser console it can be used to render other things, like...
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#672 — January 25, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyBetter JavaScript Shell Scripting with Bun Shell— Performance-focused server-side runtime Bun continues its rapid evolution with a side quest...
View ArticleA Qwik break from React?
#673 — February 1, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyCytoscape.js: Graph/Network Visualization and Analysis Library— Handy if you need to model and/or visualize relational data, like biological data...
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#674 — February 8, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyjQuery 4.0.0 Beta— I recently looked at issue #1 of JavaScript Weekly and the top two items were jQuery, so it’s nice to feature it :-) You might...
View ArticleTC39 adds a new stage for ECMAScript proposals
#675 — February 15, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyTempo: An Easier Way to Work with Dates— We think they nailed their own summary: “A collection of utilities for working with the native Date...
View ArticleA big update for ECharts
#676 — February 22, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly📊 Apache ECharts 5.5: The Powerful Visualization Library— ECharts’ big selling point, beyond being a well supported Apache-backed project, is...
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#677 — February 29, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyPGlite: PostgreSQL in WebAssembly (and TypeScript)— People have brought Postgres into the browser before, albeit atop a Linux VM WASM layer....
View ArticleA new challenger appears
#678 — March 7, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly📒 Eloquent JavaScript Goes Fourth— Coming several years after the third edition, the latest version of, perhaps, the best ‘all rounder’ book for...
View ArticleBuild-time macros for everyone
#679 — March 14, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyUse Parcel Macros in Other Bundlers with unplugin-parcel-macros— Macros, as implemented in Parcel (and Bun!), are JS functions that run at build...
View ArticlePackage managers, the new todo app?
#680 — March 21, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyRuntime Compatibility Across JavaScript Runtimes— Several developers have come together to build this convenient way to visualize the compatibility...
View ArticlePromises visualized
#681 — March 28, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyJavaScript Visualized: Promise Execution— A helpful diagrammed and animated article, coupled with an (optional) 8-minute video, that goes into how...
View ArticleA signal boost for JavaScript
#682 — April 4, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyA Proposal to Add Signals to JavaScript— A (very) early stage proposal for bringing a new feature to ECMAScript/JavaScript: signals! The proposal...
View ArticleAn easy way to experiment with signals
#683 — April 11, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyFrontend Development Beyond React: Svelte— A surprisingly thorough article going deep into one developer’s research into using Svelte to build...
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