#489 — June 6, 2023 Read on the Web qnm: A CLI Tool to Look Into node_modules — If you’ve been into a node_modules folder and been overwhelmed, this tool (supporting both npm and Yarn) lets you dig around with extra guidance as to what is what. You can use fuzzy search to find specific
#641 — June 1, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript Macros in Bun — Not content with giving the JavaScript world a brand new bundler, Bun’s Jarred has taken it a bit further: ‘macros’ that run at bundle time with the result being directly inlined into your code. They use stage 3 annotated
#488 — May 30, 2023 Read on the Web ▶ ‘I Tried 8 Different Postgres ORMs’ — A modern, fast-paced, and slightly irreverent meme-heavy look at the various ways in which you can interact with Postgres (provided serverless by Neon, in this case) from a backend JavaScript app. It’s pretty neat as whirlwind tours go. (9 minutes.)
#640 — May 25, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny Thingamabobs — DeviceScript is a new Microsoft effort to take the TypeScript experience to low-resource microcontroller-based devices. It’s compiled to a custom VM bytecode which can run in such constrained environments. (A bit like Go’s TinyGo.) It’s aimed at VS
#487 — May 23, 2023 Read on the Web The State of Node.js Performance in 2023 — Nearform’s Rafael Gonzaga reflects on the recent release of Node 20 and puts it through its paces against v18.16 and v16.20 with a few different benchmark suites running on a pretty typical EC2 instance. It goes into a
#639 — May 18, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Bun’s New Bundler: 220x Faster than webpack? — Bun is one of the newest JavaScript runtimes (built atop the JavaScriptCore engine) and focuses on speed while aiming to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js. This week’s v0.6.0 release is the ‘biggest release yet’ with
#486 — May 16, 2023 Read on the Web ‘This Page is Hosted on my Android Phone’ — Since it’s been linked on some pretty big sites already, I don’t feel too guilty about linking it here too 😆 This is a link to a blog being hosted from a $180 Android phone that’s running
#638 — May 11, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The JavaScript Ecosystem is Delightfully Weird — There are plenty of examples of how JavaScript is weird but Sam focuses on the why. If you’ve been a JS developer for many years you’ll have seen it go through many phases and morph to fit
#485 — May 9, 2023 Read on the Web Node v20.1.0 (Current) Released — If you’re still catching your breath after the epic Node 20 release, don’t fear – 20.1 is a more typical bugfix, dependency update, and tweak-style affair. Michaël Zasso 💡 That said, the fs readdir and opendir functions get a new recursive option
#637 — May 4, 2023 Read on the Web Psst.. if you’re wondering about the context of today’s subject line, see the first ⚡️ In Brief. JavaScript™ Weekly Angular v16 Released — With the “biggest release since the initial rollout of Angular”, v16 of the extensive framework introduces a preview of a new signals-based reactivity model (a.k.a.