#640 — May 25, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny Thingamabobs — DeviceScript is a new Microsoft effort to take the TypeScript experience to low-resource microcontroller-based devices. It’s compiled to a custom VM bytecode which can run in such constrained environments. (A bit like Go’s TinyGo.) It’s aimed at VS […]
#639 — May 18, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Bun’s New Bundler: 220x Faster than webpack? — Bun is one of the newest JavaScript runtimes (built atop the JavaScriptCore engine) and focuses on speed while aiming to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js. This week’s v0.6.0 release is the ‘biggest release yet’ with […]
#638 — May 11, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The JavaScript Ecosystem is Delightfully Weird — There are plenty of examples of how JavaScript is weird but Sam focuses on the why. If you’ve been a JS developer for many years you’ll have seen it go through many phases and morph to fit […]
#637 — May 4, 2023 Read on the Web Psst.. if you’re wondering about the context of today’s subject line, see the first ⚡️ In Brief. JavaScript™ Weekly Angular v16 Released — With the “biggest release since the initial rollout of Angular”, v16 of the extensive framework introduces a preview of a new signals-based reactivity model (a.k.a. […]
#636 — April 27, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript™ Weekly Babylon.js 6.0: The Powerful Web-Based 3D Framework — Babylon.js remains one of the world’s leading WebGL-based graphics engines with a visual scene builder and best-in-class physically-based rendering. v6.0 includes a new physics plugin with plenty of docs and demos, fluid rendering, major improvements to […]
#635 — April 20, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Introducing npm Package Provenance — As stewards of the official npm registry, GitHub has been keen to improve its security. As of this week, if you build npm packages through GitHub Actions, you can publish the provenance of a package which gives users a […]
#634 — April 13, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The JavaScript Equality Table Game — Minesweeper will feel like a walk in the park after this reminder of the horrors of JavaScript’s ==. If you need to go in depth, Section 7.2.14 of the ECMAScript spec will help, but otherwise? Stick to three […]
#633 — April 6, 2023 Read on the Web ❓ JavaScript Weekly on a Thursday? It’s true. As well as it being Good Friday tomorrow, we’ve decided to move to Thursday permanently going forward. We hope you have a good Easter, if you celebrate it, otherwise enjoy one fewer email on Fridays ????__Your editor, Peter Cooper JavaScript […]
#632 — March 31, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript Import Maps Now Supported Cross-Browser — ES modules provide a modern way to include and reuse JavaScript code in web apps, and import maps provide the bridge between using module names in code and where those modules can actually be loaded from. Thomas Steiner […]
#631 — March 24, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Speeding Up the JavaScript Ecosystem: npm Scripts — The latest in what has been a fascinating series on finding ‘low hanging fruit’ when it comes to performance in the JavaScript world. The author explains it best himself: “‘npm scripts’ are executed by JavaScript developers […]