#647 — July 13, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Driver.js: Create On-Page Tours, Highlights, and Contextual Help — A no-dependency, vanilla JavaScript library for putting together page tours and contextual help systems. The project is a few years old but has just been entirely rewritten and gained numerous enhancements, plus a huge lick
#494 — July 11, 2023 Read on the Web Node v20.4.0 Introduces Mock Timers — The latest release of Node includes a new MockTimers API that can make any tests involving time-dependent functionality more reliable and deterministic by mocking setTimeout, setInterval, node:timers, and more. Rafael Gonzaga Testing the Dark Scenarios of Your Node App — An
#646 — July 6, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly What’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 time, along with some of the new things about to appear or still making their way through the
#493 — July 4, 2023 Read on the Web RegExp’s v Flag with Set Notation and Properties of Strings — The capability of regexes in Node has been turned up a few notches, especially in the support for, and manipulation of, Unicode character sets (for example, you can now do things like ‘match all Greek
#645 — June 29, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly A 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 his story too much, but in short, package manifests and actual package
#492 — June 27, 2023 Read on the Web Kysely: A Type-Safe SQL Query Builder — Inspired by Knex and targeting Node, it also works in Deno and the browser. It boasts a good autocomplete experience thanks to its fluent API. GitHub repo. Sami Koskimäki The June 20 Node.js Security Releases — As we suggested last
#644 — June 22, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly UnsuckJS: Comparing Lightweight JavaScript Options — “No build tools, no compilers, and no hassle.” It’s a table of frontend JavaScript libraries on a simple page – that’s it! But it’s a handy table, letting you see the relative popularity, size, and latest versions of libraries
#491 — June 20, 2023 Read on the Web ▶ Recreating a JS Runtime to Understand Node’s Magic — Popular speaker, educator, Microsoft MVP and Node.js core team member Erick gives a very enthusiastic talk on the latest ‘hello world’ in the JavaScript world: building a runtime 😏 Somehow, Erick manages to run through the key
#643 — June 15, 2023 Read 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 the modern JavaScript development table. Spoiler: performance and resumability.__Your editor, Peter Cooper JavaScript Weekly
#490 — June 13, 2023 Read on the Web An Introduction to Debugging Tools and Approaches for Node — An informative primer on debugging, from simple things like using IDE extensions to highlight potential problems or, yes, console logging, through to using the V8 inspector and debugging via Chrome. Craig Buckler Node v20.3.0 (Current) Released —