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Import maps go universal
#632 — March 31, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyJavaScript Import Maps Now Supported Cross-Browser— ES modules provide a modern way to include and reuse JavaScript code in web apps, and import...
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JavaScript on your schedule
#633 — April 6, 2023Read 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...
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The return of ECMAScript 2023 (and Angular)
#634 — April 13, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThe JavaScript Equality Table Game— Minesweeper will feel like a walk in the park after this reminder of the horrors of JavaScript’s ==. If you...
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On the origin of packages
#635 — April 20, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyIntroducing npm Package Provenance— As stewards of the official npm registry, GitHub has been keen to improve its security. As of this week, if you...
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Did you know JavaScript is trademarked?
#636 — April 27, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript™ WeeklyBabylon.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...
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'It's a miracle anything about this ecosystem works at all.'
#637 — May 4, 2023Read on the WebPsst.. if you're wondering about the context of today's subject line, see the first ⚡️ In Brief.JavaScript™ WeeklyAngular v16 Released— With the “biggest release since...
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Why Svelte is converting TypeScript to JSDoc
#638 — May 11, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThe 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...
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jQuery lives on; major changes teased
#639 — May 18, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyBun's New Bundler: 220x Faster than webpack?— Bun is one of the newest JavaScript runtimes (built atop the JavaScriptCore engine) and focuses on...
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Microsoft shrunk the TypeScript
#640 — May 25, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyDeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny Thingamabobs— DeviceScript is a new Microsoft effort to take the TypeScript experience to low-resource...
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Bundle-time macros with Bun
#641 — June 1, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyJavaScript Macros in Bun— Not content with giving the JavaScript world a brand new bundler, Bun’s Jarred has taken it a bit further: 'macros' that...
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Douglas Crockford calls JavaScript 'smelly.'
#642 — June 8, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyPolywasm: A Polyfill to Run WASM in JS Environments— The creator of esbuild is back with something fresh: a polyfill that uses live translation to be...
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11 years of JavaScript on top
#643 — June 15, 2023Read on the Web✍️ Be sure to make it to the end of today's issue because we have an interview with the creator of Angular and Qwik, Miško Hevery, about exactly what Qwik brings to...
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Svelte 4 released
#644 — June 22, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyUnsuckJS: Comparing Lightweight JavaScript Options— "No build tools, no compilers, and no hassle." It’s a table of frontend JavaScript libraries on...
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This is a doozy of an issue
#645 — June 29, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyA Massive Bug at the Heart of the npm Ecosystem— “This is a doozy,” says the author, who used to work on the npm CLI team. We don’t want to spoil...
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CommonJS, we love you, we love you not..
#646 — July 6, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyWhat's Next for JavaScript: New Features to Look Forward to— A reassuring and high level look at just what goes into making JavaScript better over...
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htmx in 100 seconds
#647 — July 13, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyDriver.js: Create On-Page Tours, Highlights, and Contextual Help— A no-dependency, vanilla JavaScript library for putting together page tours and...
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The tale of how static typing came to JavaScript
#648 — July 20, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript Weeklypkg-size: Find the True, Current Size of an npm Package Without Leaving Your Browser— A beautifully designed site that can show you the true size of...
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Name mangling
#649 — July 27, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyHono + Htmx + Cloudflare: A New Stack?— A lot of people seem to be jumping on htmx lately as an alternative to the complexity of frameworks like...
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Taking JavaScript into Python
#650 — August 3, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyA Tale of Evading JavaScript Anti-Debugging Techniques— When you’re poking arounddebugging code written and distributed by a third party, there...
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Svelte 5 is going to be radical
#651 — August 10, 2023Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyMy Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM— What a post! Mark, well known for his work on React, Redux, and much more, details the painful...
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