The latest from TC39's recent meeting
#724 — February 21, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyTC39 Advances 3 Proposals to Stage 4— I love seeing Rob Palmer’s tweets about TC39’s progression of JavaScript proposals and this is a good...
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#725 — February 28, 2025Read on the Web✏️ Whenever we include more than a few links about TypeScript, we get complaints from people who don't like it. We get that, we love you folks, and we're aware....
View ArticleThe current state of JavaScript on the Web
#726 — March 7, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyA Report on How the Web is Really Using JavaScript— Each year, the HTTP Archive puts together the Web Almanac, a report on the ‘state of the Web’....
View ArticleCan you understand this JavaScript?
#727 — March 14, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyA Perplexing JavaScript Parsing Puzzle— It looks deceptively simple – just 14 characters of JavaScript – but after working with JavaScript for 29...
View ArticleThe Rsdoctor will see you now
#728 — March 21, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyRsdoctor 1.0: An Analyzer for Rspack and Webpack— A one-stop, intelligent build analyzer making it easier to identify bottlenecks and optimize...
View ArticleThe tale of a bizarre bug encountered in Google Docs
#729 — March 28, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly⭐ The State of Vue.js Report 2025— Created with the support of the Vue and Nuxt teams, this is no mere collection of statistics and charts (though...
View ArticleThe JavaScript trademark fight rumbles on
#730 — April 4, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyBare: A New Lightweight Runtime for Modular JS Apps— Imagine something like Node.js but really stripped back: bare, if you will. Like Node, it’s...
View ArticleComparing Tauri and Electron
#731 — April 11, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly🤖 Firebase Studio: Google's New Agentic AI-Powered Development Environment— Buzzing from the success of Gemini 2.5 Pro for dev tasks, Google’s...
View ArticleTC39: No to records and tuples, yes to enums
#732 — April 18, 2025Read on the Web🥚 A Good Friday, if you celebrate Easter at all. We're taking a little break but didn't want to take the entire week off, so we have a slimline issue for you today...
View ArticleBring back the fun with p5.js 2.0
#733 — April 25, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript Weeklyp5.js 2.0: The JavaScript Library for Creative Coding— A popular Processing-inspired creative coding library that makes it easy to create...
View ArticleMaking V8 eager to compile your JavaScript
#734 — May 2, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyGSAP v3.13: JavaScript Animation Set Free— Last year the popular GSAP (a.k.a. GreenSock) animation library was acquired by Webflow and as of this new...
View ArticleBig Node, VS Code, and Mantine updates
#735 — May 9, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript Weeklyk6 1.0: Go-Powered Load Testing with JavaScript— A full-featured, configurable load generation tool that uses the Sobek Go-powered JavaScript engine...
View ArticleThe power of generators
#736 — May 16, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly'I Think the Ergonomics of Generators is Growing on Me'— The author notes generator functions have been widely available in JavaScript for a long...
View ArticleA timeline of JavaScript's history
#737 — May 23, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyA Brief History of JavaScript— JavaScript (originally named LiveScript) turns thirty years old this year and the Deno team has put together a...
View ArticleHow Remix is shaking things up
#738 — May 30, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyWake Up, Remix! Everything's Changing..— Big news from the Remix camp this week. About a year ago, Remix and React Router merged together reflecting...
View ArticleTC39 advances numerous proposals at latest meeting
#739 — June 6, 2025Read on the Web🖊️ I was meant to be traveling this week. My plans changed, but I’d planned for a shorter issue, so enjoy the bitesize take! Back to full service next week....
View ArticleEverybody's gone lintin'
#740 — June 13, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThe State of React and the Community in 2025— React continues to be a major dependency in the JavaScript world but recent innovations have led to...
View ArticleDr. Axel's JavaScript flashcards
#741 — June 20, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly📖 Exploring JavaScript (ES2025 Edition)— Dr. Axel is back with his latest book covering all things relating to modern JavaScript at the language...
View ArticleSay hello to ECMAScript 2025
#742 — June 27, 2025Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyEcma International Approves ECMAScript 2025: What’s New?— It’s that time of year again. The Ecma General Assembly has approved the ES2025 language...
View ArticleThe dog days of JavaScript summer
#743 — July 4, 2025Read on the Web🖊️ It’s been a quiet week with heatwaves and holidays seeming to slow the usual flow, but we've made it.. thanks to a few items out of left field 😅 For our US...
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