#713 — November 14, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Component Party: A Rosetta Stone of UI Libraries — A long-standing comparison of many different frameworks (like React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Qwik, Solid.js, etc.) by way of simple code snippets to perform various tasks. Now including Svelte 5 and Angular 17/Renaissance. Mathieu Schimmerling Will We Care
#555 — November 12, 2024 Read on the Web Node v23.2.0 (Current) Released — On paper, a relatively minor release that updates the root certificates, adding five new ones, but development of TypeScript support has now moved into active development (as opposed to ‘early development’) and there’s a new module.stripTypeScriptTypes API. Antoine du Hamel 💡
#712 — November 7, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript’s ??= Operator: Default Values Made Simple — The ??= nullish coalescing assignment operator snuck into JavaScript a few years ago via ECMAScript 2021 and has been broadly supported almost everywhere for ages. Trevor shows off how it can tighten up your assignments here. Trevor
#554 — November 5, 2024 Read on the Web Why Code Security Matters – Even in Hardened Environments — A beautifully illustrated deep dive (and it really is deep) into a technique that allows malicious parties to turn a file write vulnerability in a Node app into a remote code execution exploit even when the
#711 — October 31, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Python Jumps to #1 on GitHub Over JavaScript, But… — GitHub Universe took place this week, flooding us with data about how folks are using the platform. Of interest to those on social media was that Python has taken JavaScript’s #1 language crown, though
#553 — October 29, 2024 Read on the Web Transformers.js v3: Now You Can Run Transformers in Node.js — A JavaScript port of Hugging Face’s transformers Python library that makes it possible to run natural language, vision, and audio machine learning models. v3 adds WebGPU support and now supports Node (plus Deno and Bun) as
#710 — October 24, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Svelte 5 is Alive — The long awaited next major release of Svelte, the compiler-driven JS UI framework, is the “most significant release in the project’s history”, while remaining largely backwards compatible. A big addition is runes for explicitly declaring reactive state, but there’s
#552 — October 22, 2024 Read on the Web Node v23.0.0 (Current) Released — Say hello to the newest release line of Node.js that gets all the cutting edge features first (Node 22 will soon become the active LTS release). v23 notably enables support for loading ES modules with require() by default, drops 32-bit Windows
#709 — October 17, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The Story of Web Framework Hono, By Its Creator — Hono is a neat, lightweight framework designed to run on any JavaScript runtime that has been picking up steam in the past year. You can create a simple app reminiscent of Express.js, say, but
#551 — October 15, 2024 Read on the Web 😅 If you didn’t get Node Weekly last week, don’t panic – no one did! We were taking a scheduled week off, but unfortunately forgot to notify you in the previous issue. We’re now back every Tuesday till December 17 and the Xmas break 🙂__Peter Cooper, your