#546 — September 3, 2024 Read on the Web Prisma 5.19.0, Now with ‘Typed SQL’ — Prisma is a popular declaratively-driven ORM in the Node.js / TypeScript world and its new version makes it possible to write raw SQL queries in a type-safe way. Nikolas Burk Node v22.8.0 (Current) Released — This landed just before we
#702 — August 29, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Rspack 1.0: The Rust-Powered JavaScript Bundler — Far from being ‘yet another bundler’ with its own approach and terminology to learn, Rspack prides itself on being webpack API and ecosystem compatible, while offering many times the performance. The team now considers it production ready
#545 — August 27, 2024 Read on the Web How to Create an NPM Package in 2024 — Sounds simple, but there are a lot of steps involved if you want to follow best practices, introduce useful tools, and get things just right. Matt Pocock walks through the process here, and there’s a 14-minute screencast
#701 — August 22, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Regexes Got Good: The History (and Future) of Regular Expressions in JavaScript — Regular expression support was always a little underwhelming in JS, but things have improved. Steven takes us on a tour to refresh our knowledge, as well as show off his ‘regex’
#544 — August 20, 2024 Read on the Web 🏖️ If you missed last week’s issue, don’t worry – you didn’t. I took a week off a summer break, but now we’re back 😉 Thanks to everyone who sent in links for us to check out.__Peter Cooper, your editor Node.js Doubles Security Releases with Newly Automated
#700 — August 15, 2024 Read on the Web 👋 Wow, issue 700! We’re back after a week away. Technically I’m still on vacation, but I didn’t want to leave you in the lurch for too long.. 😉__Peter Cooper, your editor JavaScript Weekly ECMAScript Safe Assignment Operator Proposal — We often feature ECMAScript proposals that
#543 — August 6, 2024 Read on the Web 🏖️ Hi! We’re taking next week off for a brief summer break. We’ll be back with our next issue on August 20. We’ve also noticed in testing that Gmail isn’t entirely sure about this issue, so if you could mark it as safe, show images, perhaps
#699 — August 1, 2024 Read on the Web 🏖️ Hi! Just a quick note to say that we’re taking next week off for a brief summer break. We’ll be back with our next issue on August 15.__Peter Cooper, your editor JavaScript Weekly How Google Handles JavaScript In Its Indexing Process — Once, if you
#542 — July 30, 2024 Read on the Web Node.js Adds Experimental Support for TypeScript — In this pull request, Node merged an experimental ability to transpile TypeScript into JavaScript, ultimately letting Node directly ‘run TypeScript’. However, no type checking is performed and, as Matt Pocock explains, experimental and TypeScript-only features are a no-no. Perhaps
#698 — July 25, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly 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