Codepolice

A huge week for both Svelte and Next.js

#710 — October 24, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Svelte 5 is Alive — The long awaited next major release of Svelte, the compiler-driven JS UI framework, is the “most significant release in the project’s history”, while remaining largely backwards compatible. A big addition is runes for explicitly declaring reactive state, but there’s

Node v23, and a proper hello to Express v5

#552 — October 22, 2024 Read on the Web Node v23.0.0 (Current) Released — Say hello to the newest release line of Node.js that gets all the cutting edge features first (Node 22 will soon become the active LTS release). v23 notably enables support for loading ES modules with require() by default, drops 32-bit Windows

JS0 + JSSugar not so sweet?

#709 — October 17, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The Story of Web Framework Hono, By Its Creator — Hono is a neat, lightweight framework designed to run on any JavaScript runtime that has been picking up steam in the past year. You can create a simple app reminiscent of Express.js, say, but

Jod only knows what Node v22 LTS will be called

#551 — October 15, 2024 Read on the Web 😅 If you didn’t get Node Weekly last week, don’t panic – no one did! We were taking a scheduled week off, but unfortunately forgot to notify you in the previous issue. We’re now back every Tuesday till December 17 and the Xmas break 🙂__Peter Cooper, your

A huge week for ECMAScript proposals

#708 — October 10, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly TC39 Advances 10+ ECMAScript Proposals — The architects behind the development of the ECMAScript / JavaScript spec got together again this week (you can see them in this tweet) and they had a packed agenda. Import attributes, Iterator helpers, Promise.try and Regexp modifiers all

Evan You’s next big adventure

#707 — October 3, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly VoidZero: A Next-Generation Toolchain for JavaScript — Not content to have merely created Vue.js and Vite, JavaScript powerhouse Evan You has unveiled his latest adventure: a $4.6m funded company building an open-source unified development toolchain for the JavaScript ecosystem. With his track record, this

All aboard the (high speed) Express train

#550 — October 1, 2024 Read on the Web µExpress / Ultimate Express: Like Express, But Faster? — It’s not Express, but a reimplementation of Express’s functionality with API compatibility. Based on µWebSockets, and with an optimized router, it boasts faster performance than regular Express, but needs some C++ magic to make it happen. dimden Jiti

Deno gets even better

#706 — September 26, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Deno 2.0 Release Candidate — Deno started life as a manifestation of ideas that Node’s original creator, Ryan Dahl, had after his experiences with Node. Deno 2 is the next step: how the Deno team thinks Deno should ultimately be. Many changes await: window

Principles for doing Node right at scale

#549 — September 24, 2024 Read on the Web The Nine Node Pillars: Principles for Doing Node Right in the Enterprise — An interesting resource from a group of prolific and productive Node.js contributors. It’s designed to act as a checklist to identify gaps in your current Node development practices, particularly when building larger scale apps.

Hey, how many C’s are there in JavaScript?

#705 — September 19, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript™? Weekly ‘Oracle, It’s Time to Free JavaScript.’ — It’s long been a bone of contention that Oracle owns the trademark for ‘JavaScript’ (we put out a call two years ago) but this marks the first serious effort to try and change that, including petitioning the