#666 — December 7, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Learn How Modern JS Frameworks Work by Building One — Building things is a great way to learn, even if you don’t end up using what you built. Even better is when someone who’s already built something successful introduces you to the process. Nolan
#513 — December 5, 2023 Read on the Web Node v21.3.0 and v21.4.0 (Current) Released — We’ve mentioned it in passing, but Node has gained a new –disable-warning option to disable specific warnings (as opposed to all warnings). There’s also a perf boost for fs.writeFileSync to work up to 2.5x faster under certain conditions. v21.4.0
#665 — November 30, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Eliminating JS Framework Lock-in with Web Components? — Can you build an app where each component is using a different framework? Amazingly, yes. Web components aren’t new but are ‘having a moment’ and Jake demos an interesting, if contrived, use case. He explains: “Say
#512 — November 28, 2023 Read on the Web Node.js Download Statistics — Node.js TSC member Matteo has put together a handy site that visualizes the publicly available Node.js download statistics, partly as a way to help guide you as to which versions and which architectures need the most support. Notably, Node 18 has only
#664 — November 23, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Time to Take the State of JavaScript 2023 — The long standing State of JavaScript survey is back for another run at figuring out what the community is up to and what tools we’re using. The results are always illuminating and we’ll share the
#511 — November 21, 2023 Read on the Web ‘A Node + TypeScript + ts-node + ESM Experience That Works’ — It’s just three files: package.json, tsconfig.json and a utilities file, and you’re good to go. As someone on Hacker News said: “Sometimes the most valuable guide is a working example.” The associated comment thread is
#663 — November 16, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Prettier 3.1 Released — The popular opinionated code formatter has a new release including support for the new control flow syntax in Angular 17 plus a new, experimental formatting option for ternary expressions (as in x ? y : z) explained in more depth
#510 — November 14, 2023 Read on the Web 36 Node CLI App Best Practices — From the creator of several Node-based CLI tools comes this helpful collection of best practices for building “successful, empathic and user-friendly” CLI tools using Node, plus an appendix rounding up popular CLI framework options. Liran Tal 👍 Note: There’s a ‘last
#662 — November 9, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Reintroducing Angular with Angular v17 — Angular first appeared in the shape of AngularJS in 2010 and helped launch a wave of large-scale JavaScript frameworks. Angular remains popular in many use cases but is often overlooked in favor of newer options. v17 takes a
#509 — November 7, 2023 Read on the Web Awesome Node Security: A Curated List of Node Security Resources — Includes links to libraries like Helmet (which just had a new release a few hours ago), educational resources, tools, and even stories of incidents like the left-pad incident (which, somehow, was a whole seven years ago!) Liran