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#​765 — December 12, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Useful Patterns for Building HTML Tools — In many situations, you don’t need a full-on framework to build useful tools; just HTML, JavaScript and CSS in a single file will do the job fine. Simon’s become a bit of an expert by rolling out

#​604 — December 9, 2025 Read on the Web 🗓️ A quick notice that Node Weekly will be moving to Thursdays in January 2026, as part of a schedule reshuffle for most of our newsletters. We still have one more week before the Christmas break, though, so we’ll be back next Tuesday with our 2025 roundup!__Your editor,

#​764 — December 5, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly 🎉  JavaScript Turns 30 Years Old  🎉 Back in May 1995, a 33 year old Brendan Eich built the first prototype of JavaScript in just ten days, originally codenamed Mocha (and then LiveScript). On December 4, 1995, Netscape and Sun Microsystems officially announced ‘JavaScript’ in a

#​603 — December 2, 2025 Read on the Web Tinybench 6.0: A Tiny, Simple Benchmarking Library — Uses whatever precise timing capabilities are available (e.g. process.hrtime or performance.now). You can then benchmark whatever functions you want, specify how long or how many times to benchmark for, and get a variety of stats in return –

#​763 — November 28, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Over 150 Algorithms and Data Structures Demonstrated in JS — Examples of many common algorithms (e.g. bit manipulation, Pascal’s triangle, Hamming distance) and data structures (e.g. linked lists, tries, graphs) with explanations. Available in eighteen other written languages too. Oleksii Trekhleb et al. TypeScript: From

#​602 — November 25, 2025 Read on the Web How a Summer in Abruzzo Helped Bring Type Stripping to Node.js — Node.js TSC member and committer Marco tells the personal tale of what it took to bring type stripping (now considered stable) to Node. It’s neat to get the back story. He’s now working on