Plus Babel 7.14.0, bye IE 11, the future of Node, and building JS apps inside Go programs. |
▶ What's Next? The Future of Node.js — A 27-minute session by Red Hat and IBM’s Joe Sepi, Michael Dawson and Bethany Griggs on tracking what’s coming up in the Node world, Node’s future (though Beth reminds us “there is no roadmap”) and how you can get involved if you so wish. NearForm |
Quick Bits Slashdata, a UK based developer research firm, says JavaScript is the most popular programming language with an estimated 12.4 million developers. So.. as a JavaScript Weekly reader, you are in the 1.4% 😄 Vue 3 dropped IE 11 support, so is Preact and Angular too. Bye IE 11 - at 7½ years old, it's about time. It's still early days but the HTML Sanitizer API is a proposed API for sanitizing untrusted strings of HTML client side. Guy Bedford was on the ▶️ TC39er podcast, a show that interviews folks associated with TC39. Releases RxJS 7.0 — Reactive extensions for JavaScript. Next.js 10.2 — The React framework. Strapi 3.6 — Headless CMS, now with i18n. Replay 3.0 — React video player component. neo.mjs 2.0 — WebWorker-driven UI framework. Chart.js 3.2 — HTML5 charting library. |
📖 Articles, Opinions & Tutorials |
The Lazy-Loading Property Pattern in JavaScript — Deferring computationally expensive operations until needed is (nearly) always a win. Plus, it’s always a pleasure to see one of the longest standing names in the JavaScript space blogging. Nicholas C. Zakas |
Building Portable Apps with Go(lang) and Next.js — It’s not often we get to see Go and JavaScript come together, but the idea here is that you can use Go’s new static embedding functionality to build a self-contained Go app that serves a Next-powered app all in one. David Stotijn |
↑ And if you like this sort of thing, Really Advanced TypeScript Types from Rick Weber at Tableau might also be up your street. :-) |
You Can Label a JavaScript if Statement — Labels are a longstanding JS feature that tend to be forgotten (for good reason) and even the author says “you can lead a very fulfilling career without ever knowing that this exists.” Nonetheless.. Alex Riviere | |