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Should Node make ES modules easier to use?

#537 — June 25, 2024 Read on the Web ✈️ I’ve produced this issue a day early due to being en-route to the AI Engineer World’s Fair, so any last minute news may be missed. If you’re there, do come and say hi, but you can also watch from afar through the livestreams that will

The results are in

#693 — June 20, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The Results of the State of JavaScript 2023 Survey — It feels odd including something about 2023 in June 2024, but the results of the major annual JavaScript developer survey are now out. It’s interesting to see what features JS devs do and don’t

A snapshot of what’s new in Node

#536 — June 18, 2024 Read on the Web Node v22.3.0 (Current) Released — One of those releases where lots of tiny things have occurred, but little of broad significance, except… for snapshot testing! Snapshot tests serialize arbitrary values into string values to be compared against a set of pre-built known ‘good’ values (stored as

The biggest TypeScript release in years?

#692 — June 13, 2024 Read on the Web 📝 I’ve recently encountered readers who’ve been surprised to learn this isn’t our only JavaScript newsletter. We have Node Weekly and React Status too – check them out if you’re a Node.js or React developer, as we focus more closely on them there! 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper

Leaky timeouts

#535 — June 11, 2024 Read on the Web Node is Leaking Memory? setTimeout Could Be The Reason — The folks at Sentry were running into problems with how Node handles timeouts created with setTimeout or, more specifically, problems caused by hanging on to the Timeout objects setTimeout returns.. Armin Ronacher Using Node.js’s Test Runner: The

The appealing simplicity of htmx

#691 — June 6, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Promises from the Ground Up — Josh notes that in order to truly understand promises, a fundamental part of modern JS development, we need “a surprisingly deep understanding of how JavaScript works and what its limitations are”. Luckily, this tutorial covers all the critical

The newest Node.js runtime features

#534 — June 4, 2024 Read on the Web 🫣 Node Weekly took a break last week, but we forgot to notify you in advance – sorry! You didn’t miss anything, and we’re catching up with the past two weeks today 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper 10 Modern Node.js Runtime Features to Start Using in 2024 —

A variety of JS hacks and creative coding

#690 — May 30, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly How 1Password Used esbuild to Cut Browser Extension Build Times — 1Password is a popular password management tool that relies upon a browser extension to fill out passwords on the Web. At over a minute for a single build, things were starting to drag

SolidJS is off to a solid start

#689 — May 23, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Creating Realistic Handwriting with p5.js — Amy wanted to programatically bring her (cursive) handwriting into some diagrams she was making and figured out how to make it happen with p5.js. Here’s how. Amy Goodchild SolidStart 1.0: The Shape of Frameworks to Come? — SolidJS is

The Node.js Advocacy Ambassador program?

#533 — May 21, 2024 Read on the Web Node v22.2.0 (Current) Released — A less significant release, feature-wise, than 22.0 or 22.1, but lots of little bug fixes, tweaks around core dev experience, getting Node’s built-in ESLint rules ready for ESLint v9, and the –inspect-wait flag to make the debugger wait for a connection