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The heaviest npm packages
#704 — September 12, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThe State of ES5 on the Web— Some of the earlier JavaScript build tools focused on allowing developers to write modern JavaScript code that...
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Hey, how many C's are there in JavaScript?
#705 — September 19, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript™? Weekly'Oracle, It’s Time to Free JavaScript.'— It’s long been a bone of contention that Oracle owns the trademark for ‘JavaScript’ (we put out a...
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Deno gets even better
#706 — September 26, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyDeno 2.0 Release Candidate— Deno started life as a manifestation of ideas that Node’s original creator, Ryan Dahl, had after his experiences...
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Evan You's next big adventure
#707 — October 3, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyVoidZero: A Next-Generation Toolchain for JavaScript— Not content to have merely created Vue.js and Vite, JavaScript powerhouse Evan You has...
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A huge week for ECMAScript proposals
#708 — October 10, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyTC39 Advances 10+ ECMAScript Proposals— The architects behind the development of the ECMAScript / JavaScript spec got together again this week...
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JS0 + JSSugar not so sweet?
#709 — October 17, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThe Story of Web Framework Hono, By Its Creator— Hono is a neat, lightweight framework designed to run on any JavaScript runtime that has been...
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A huge week for both Svelte and Next.js
#710 — October 24, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklySvelte 5 is Alive— The long awaited next major release of Svelte, the compiler-driven JS UI framework, is the “most significant release in the...
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Cutting JavaScript into two: trick or treat?
#711 — October 31, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyPython Jumps to #1 on GitHub Over JavaScript, But...— GitHub Universe took place this week, flooding us with data about how folks are using the...
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JSConf is back
#712 — November 7, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyJavaScript's ??= Operator: Default Values Made Simple— The ??= nullish coalescing assignment operator snuck into JavaScript a few years ago via...
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Will we care about frameworks in an AI world?
#713 — November 14, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyComponent Party: A Rosetta Stone of UI Libraries— A long-standing comparison of many different frameworks (like React, Vue, Svelte, Angular,...
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Exploring JavaScript symbols
#714 — November 21, 2024Read on the Web🦃 We're taking next week off for Thanksgiving. We don't celebrate it in our country, but we know many of you do, so it seemed a good time for a break. We'll be...
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Oracle engages its lawyers and JavaScript turns 29
#715 — December 5, 2024Read on the Web🗓️ If you missed last week's issue, don't worry, it didn't exist – we took a week off for Thanksgiving! We're now back all the way through to the Christmas break...
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Benchmarking Node's recent performance enhancements
#716 — December 12, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyBoa v0.20: An Alternative JavaScript Compiler— Under development for several years, Boa has a few missions: be a Rust ECMAScript implementation,...
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A 2024 JavaScript retrospective
#717 — December 19, 2024Read on the Web🎄 We've made it to the end of 2024! In this issue, we're being reflective, leading with a few news items but then looking at what made 2024 special in the world...
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The projects that shaped JavaScript in 2024
#718 — January 10, 2025Read on the Web🗓️ Friday is the new Thursday! If you were a JavaScript Weekly reader several years ago, you might remember it always landed on Fridays and after getting caught...
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An introduction to building live collaborative JS apps
#719 — January 17, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyLearn Yjs and Building Realtime Collaborative Apps in JavaScript— Yjs is a CRDT (Conflict-free replicated data type) library for building...
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Bun's on a roll with v1.2
#720 — January 24, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyBun 1.2: A Big Step Forward for the Fast JS/TS Runtime— The JavaScriptCore-based Bun continues to up its server-side runtime game with strides...
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A WebAssembly compiler in 192 bytes
#721 — January 31, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThings People Get Wrong About Electron— A long-time maintainer of the wildly successful Electron cross-platform app framework stands by the...
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Oracle dabbles in some JavaScript comedy
#722 — February 7, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyOracle Claims 'JavaScript' Isn't a Generic Term, and More— In this 'motion to dismiss' Oracle has responded to Deno’s attempt to prove Oracle...
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It's time to go ESM-only
#723 — February 14, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyStyle Observer: A Library to Observe CSS Property Changes— Lea Verou is a developer who’s easy to admire because whenever she sets out to solve...
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