#673 — February 1, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Cytoscape.js: Graph/Network Visualization and Analysis Library — Handy if you need to model and/or visualize relational data, like biological data or social networks. There are many demos to enjoy here. GitHub repo. Max Franz Announcing TypeScript 5.4 Beta — TypeScript gains Object.groupBy and Map.groupBy, a
#519 — January 30, 2024 Read on the Web AdonisJS v6: The Complete Web Framework — If you want a TypeScript-first backend Web framework with amazing docs and packed with features out the box, Adonis is worth a look. v6 takes a huge step forward by using ESM by default, offering significantly more type safety
#672 — January 25, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Better JavaScript Shell Scripting with Bun Shell — Performance-focused server-side runtime Bun continues its rapid evolution with a side quest into the world of shell scripting by making it easier, cross-platform friendly, and less verbose. zx offers similar (but less integrated and focused) functionality
#518 — January 23, 2024 Read on the Web Microsoft TypeSpec: A TypeScript-Inspired Way to Define APIs — A language for concisely describing cloud service APIs and generating other API description languages (e.g. OpenAPI), client and service code, docs, and more. Formerly known as CADL. – GitHub repo. Microsoft Cryptography Fundamentals with the crypto Module — An
#671 — January 18, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly console.delight — You use console.log to output text, but did you know that in the browser console it can be used to render other things, like SVGs and HTML? This post is packed with examples and goes deeper into the creative options opened up
#517 — January 16, 2024 Read on the Web npm in Review: A Retrospective in Numbers — From Socket comes a look at the past year from the perspective of the npm registry, focused largely on statistics (2.5 million live packages!), including download numbers, popular packages, as well as some ‘quirky facts’ like the package
#670 — January 11, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework? — Despite being four years old, htmx has seen a surge in popularity recently, parly due to fatigue with ‘big frameworks’ and also because its simple HTML-based approach to adding functionality to a page appeals to an increasingly
#516 — January 9, 2024 Read on the Web When ‘Everything’ Becomes Too Much: Fresh npm Package Chaos — While many of us were taking a break, some folks published an ‘everything’ package that depended upon all public npm packages, resulting in millions of transitive dependencies. This caused.. some problems. One of the folks involved also
#669 — January 4, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly 🌟 The 2023 JavaScript Rising Stars — At the start of each year, Michael rounds up the projects that gained the most popularity on GitHub in the prior year. Rocketing to #1 is the shadcn/ui suite of React components, but there are a lot of
#668 — December 21, 2023 Read on the Web 🎄 Welcome to the final issue of 2023! We’re taking a week off for Christmas, so this issue focuses on looking back at the past year and the items that intrigued you the most. We’re back at full steam on January 4, 2024 and we hope