#527 — April 9, 2024 Read on the Web zx v8.0: Google’s Way to Write Shell Scripts with Node — A long-standing way to make scripting a more pleasant experience. zx provides useful wrappers around child_process, escapes arguments and gives sensible defaults. v8.0 somehow makes zx 20x smaller, faster, makes it easier to kill processes,
#682 — April 4, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly A Proposal to Add Signals to JavaScript — A (very) early stage proposal for bringing a new feature to ECMAScript/JavaScript: signals! The proposal brings aboard ideas from a swathe of popular frameworks and aims to align everyone and get us on the same page
#681 — March 28, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript Visualized: Promise Execution — A helpful diagrammed and animated article, coupled with an (optional) 8-minute video, that goes into how promises work and are scheduled behind the scenes. It’s useful to have a good mental model of these mechanics, given promises form the
#526 — March 26, 2024 Read on the Web 🐣 A quick note to say Node Weekly is taking next Tuesday off, in celebration of Easter. We’ll be back on Tuesday, April 9 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper Diving into the Node.js Website Redesign — Yes, Node’s official homepage has an all new, clean, modern design.
#680 — March 21, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Runtime Compatibility Across JavaScript Runtimes — Several developers have come together to build this convenient way to visualize the compatibility of different Web APIs and JavaScript features across the ever increasing number of different runtimes (e.g. Bun, Deno, Node, LLRT..) Tom Lienard et al.
#525 — March 19, 2024 Read on the Web Bringing require(esm) to Node — Joyee writes about landing experimental support for require()-ing synchronous ES modules in Node, a feature that has been a long time coming, due to both technical and cultural factors. Joyee Cheung Building a Node App with TypeScript — Learn how to set
#679 — March 14, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Use Parcel Macros in Other Bundlers with unplugin-parcel-macros — Macros, as implemented in Parcel (and Bun!), are JS functions that run at build time whose results are inlined into a bundle in place of the original call. You can now use this feature with
#524 — March 12, 2024 Read on the Web Shiki 1.0: A Powerful Syntax Highlighter — A few months ago, we linked to Shikiji, a fork of Shiki that was created to push the project forward. Happily, the creators of both libraries decided to join forces and Shiki 1.0 was born. It’s a syntax highlighter
#678 — March 7, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly 📒 Eloquent JavaScript Goes Fourth — Coming several years after the third edition, the latest version of, perhaps, the best ‘all rounder’ book for learning JavaScript is here: “adjusted to the realities of 2024 and generally touched up.” You can read it on the
#523 — March 5, 2024 Read on the Web Deno Introduces JSR: A New JavaScript Registry — The JavaScript Registry (a.k.a. JSR) is a new TypeScript-first, ESM-only module registry designed for the entire JavaScript ecosystem (not just Deno). This post digs into what it’s all about. I find it rather cute that npm’s own flexibility