#748 — August 8, 2025 Read on the Web ☀️ We’re taking next week off, so this will be the last issue until Friday, August 22. Just a little summer vacation.__Peter Cooper, your editor JavaScript Weekly Apache ECharts 6.0: The Powerful Data Visualization Library — 12 years on from its first release, ECharts takes another
#589 — August 5, 2025 Read on the Web ☀️ We’re taking next week off, so this will be the last issue until Tuesday, August 19. Just a little summer vacation.__Peter Cooper, your editor How V8 is Making JSON.stringify More Than Twice as Fast — The V8 team has made JSON.stringify over twice as fast,
✈️ #747 — August 1, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview — The Observable Framework and the new Notebook Kit are just two parts of a rich ecosystem of reactive JavaScript ‘notebook’-style tools for creating data visualizations (example) and dashboards, originally created by Mike Bostock. This v2 release previews a
#588 — July 29, 2025 Read on the Web The Many, Many, Many JavaScript Runtimes of the Last Decade — A meaty article (which took a year to put together) covering the myriad of JavaScript runtimes and engines both past and present, from obvious picks like Node.js to cloud platforms and lesser known ‘honorable mentions’.
#746 — July 25, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly es-toolkit: A Modern JavaScript Utility Library — Boasts being both faster and ‘97% smaller’ than the ubiquitous Lodash, for which it is a direct ‘seamless’ replacement (and now boasting 100% Lodash compatibility). The reference guide shows off all it can do, and it’s widely
#587 — July 22, 2025 Read on the Web Laravel and Node.js: PHP in Watt Runtime — In June we featured php-node, a new way to ‘bridge the gap’ between PHP and Node.js by being able to embed PHP into Node apps. Now they’ve gone a step further by using php-node and the Watt app
#745 — July 18, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The JavaScript Date Quiz — Prepare to get irritated? JavaScript’s native date parsing features are notoriously arcane and prone to cause surprises if you step off the beaten track. So while we await the broad availability of the Temporal API, why not put your
#586 — July 15, 2025 Read on the Web Node v24.4.0 (Current) Released — You can now use –watch-kill-signal to specify which signal is sent to a process being restarted by Node’s ‘watch mode’; spawn and spawnSync now propagate permission model flags; plus the usual V8 and dependency updates. Rafael Gonzaga 💡 The Node team has
#744 — July 11, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Vercel Acquires NuxtLabs — Vercel has acquired the company that caretakes the Nuxt project and employs some of its core team – a move Vue creator Evan You is quite optimistic about. Vercel now manages, or at least supports, several key projects like Next.js,
#585 — July 8, 2025 Read on the Web jsonrepair: Repair Invalid JSON Documents — This has lots of possible use cases, including dealing with weird JSON coming back from LLMs or non-compliant JSON spat out by poorly built software. You can use it from Node, as a CLI tool, or try a basic version online.