Plus Electron 17, V8 9.9, and writing a printer driver in JavaScript? |
| Writing a Printer Driver in JavaScript — “Writing a printer driver in JavaScript sounds ridiculous,” starts the author, and while the definition of ‘driver’ is arguable here (it's more a filter?), this is nonetheless an interesting story and solution to the author's problem. Dan Pastusek |
| Babel 7.17.0 Released — Now that the decorators proposal has stabilized, Babel includes parse and transform support for them, if you want to get playing. The ‘v’ flag proposal for regexes has also been implemented. Babel Team |
| IN BRIEF: V8 v9.9 is on the way, with a focus on improvements to Intl. A big new monthly update for VS Code with a JS debugging improvement that lets you exclude certain callers from pausing at breakpoints. The npm registry is now requiring maintainers of the top 100 npm packages to use 2FA. This policy will extend to more maintainers over time. Using [].join(', ') to join lists of strings? Eric Clemmons has a nifty alternative to consider. Dan Abramov tries to sell us on Sublime Text versus VS Code. Jest is a very popular JS testing framework associated with Facebook yet allegedly no-one at Facebook has worked on Jest for years. RELEASES: MDX 2.0 – Markdown + JSX = ❤️
Partytown 0.3 – Take third party scripts off the main thread.
Mongoose 6.2.0 – MongoDB object modelling library.
Recoil 0.6 – Alternative React state management.
Commander.js 9.0 – Node CLI framework.
CKEditor 5 v32.0 – Rich text editor framework.
ESLint 8.8.0 |
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| Speeding Up VS Code Extensions in 2022 — One of those ‘niche but interesting’ posts that digs into the underlying architecture of VS Code and a must-read for anyone considering making their own extension. Jason Williams |
| Sigma 2.2: A Graph Drawing Library — A mature library (we first linked it in 2015!) aimed at use cases where you have giant graphs containing thousands of nodes and edges that you need to render quickly. Some good examples here. GitHub repo. Alexis Jacomy |
| Electron 17 Released — The popular cross-platform desktop app framework gets key dependency bumps with Chromium 98 support, Node 16.13.0, and V8 9.8. Michaela Laurencin and Keeley Hammond |
| WebVM.io takes you straight to a Web-based 'server-less' virtual Linux environment running directly in your browser. It's powered by the JavaScript and WebAssembly-based CheerpX x86 virtualization engine. While it's not a JavaScript project exactly, it's a neat demonstration of how far Web technology has come. It has Node v10.24.0 'installed' if you want to try that, but beware it takes a good 20 seconds to load on my machine. Here's a write-up about how it works, if you want to learn more. Note: Probably one for desktop users only due to the resources and performance needed. |
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