Plus a way to reduce 'fetch' boilerplate, what broke Node v22.5, and Astro previews Server Islands. |
| Astro 4.12: Say Hello to Server Islands — The flexible Astro framework for building modern content-based sites continues to go from strength to strength. v4.12 includes a new concept of server islands, a way to integrate static HTML and server-side generated components together. Erika and Phillips (Astro) |
| What’s New for JavaScript Developers in ECMAScript 2024 — High level analysis of developments in the ECMAScript spec, with insights from Ecma vice president Daniel Ehrenberg, TC39 co-chair Rob Palmer, and developer Ashley Claymore. A good, thorough roundup of the state of play. Mary Branscombe (The New Stack) |
💡 If you want to go a step further with what's coming up next, Igalia presents a summary of the recent TC39 meeting in Helsinki with which language proposals were advanced and discussed. |
| Level Up Your Next.js Skills — Join Scott Moss for this detailed video course on intermediate Next.js. Learn how to build production-ready apps by diving into concepts such as server actions, data fetching, protected routes, form authentication, performance caching, and more. Frontend Masters |
| IN BRIEF: Rich Harris provides some details about the forthcoming Svelte 5 and shares his opinions on React Server Components (he thinks they're "pretty phenomenal"). Node.js has added an experimental feature to strip TypeScript types from the code it runs. 📊 The results of the State of React 2023 survey have been released including insights from over 13,000 respondents, as have the results of Stack Overflow's 2024 developer survey. |
| RELEASES: Mikro ORM 6.3 – Popular ORM for Node.js and TypeScript, now with an optional 'schema-first' approach. Uppy 4.0 – Powerful, modular JavaScript file uploader. Preact 10.23 – The 3KB React compatible alternative. Node.js v20.16.0 (LTS), Storybook 8.2, pnpm 9.6, Meteor.js 3 |
| So You Think You Know Box Shadows? — The author indulges his creative side with some fun experiments into what he calls “some of the worst possible things” you can do with box shadows on a DIV element, coupled with JavaScript. David Gerrells |
| ▶ Don't Use JS for That: Moving Features to CSS and HTML — Packed with code and examples. Some techniques aren’t universally supported yet, but there’s a lot that the browser can offer that you don’t need to reimplement yourself, like color picking, modals, and animations. Kilian Valkhof |
| How to Choose the Best Rendering Strategy for Your App — The differences between Static Site Generation (SSG), Server-Side Rendering (SSR), Client-Side Rendering (CSR), Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR), and Partial Prerendering (PPR). Alice Alexandra Moore (Vercel) |
| A Practical Guide to Not Blocking the Event Loop — A look at the core principles of synchronous and asynchronous work in a single-threaded environment, stressing the importance of non-blocking code for efficient event loop utilization. Slava Knyazev |
| Git Granary: A Personal Git LFS Server — A Deno-powered (but can run under Bun and Node) Git Large File Storage (LFS) server implementation written in TypeScript for self-hosted personal use cases. David Bushell |
| 🤖 OpenAI Node v4.53.0 – The official Node library for OpenAI's API adds support for their newest gpt-4o-mini model. Rollup 4.19 – The ES module bundler gains support for decorators. eslint-plugin-unicorn 55.0 – 100+ useful ESLint rules in one place. eslint-plugin-promise 7.0 – Enforce best practices for promises. pretty-ms 9.1 – Convert milliseconds to a human readable string. Tinybase 5.1 – Powerful reactive data store for local‑first apps. MiniSearch 7.1 – In-memory fulltext search engine. (Demo.) swup 4.7 – Page transition library for server-rendered sites. Jasmine 5.2 – Testing framework for browsers & Node. |
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