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TC39 advances numerous proposals at latest meeting

#739 — June 6, 2025 Read on the Web 🖊️ I was meant to be travelling this week. My plans changed, but I’d planned for a shorter issue, so enjoy the bitesize take! Back to full service next week. 🙂__Peter Cooper, your editor JavaScript Weekly ⚡ Announcing Rolldown-Vite — Rolldown is a fast Rust-based JavaScript bundler designed

PHP + Node: The odd couple of backend?

#580 — June 3, 2025 Read on the Web Seamlessly Blend PHP with Node.js — I bet some readers have strong feelings about the idea of mixing PHP and Node.js, but this is a neat project. php-node is a native module for Node that enables the running of PHP apps within the Node environment. Why?

How Remix is shaking things up

#738 — May 30, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Wake Up, Remix! Everything’s Changing.. — Big news from the Remix camp this week. About a year ago, Remix and React Router merged together reflecting their shared goals and code, but now it’s all change again. React Router is now basically what Remix originally

What the Node.js team has been discussing lately

#579 — May 27, 2025 Read on the Web 🖊️ I’m back from my week “off” attending Google I/O. Unfortunately there wasn’t much of relevance to Node, but it does give us two weeks of news to catch up on here 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper A Report From April’s Node.js Collaboration Summit — Twice a

A timeline of JavaScript’s history

#737 — May 23, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly A Brief History of JavaScript — JavaScript (originally named LiveScript) turns thirty years old this year and the Deno team has put together a fantastic timeline-based tour of how much things have progressed from its first appearance in Netscape Navigator, through offshoots like JScript,

The power of generators

#736 — May 16, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly ‘I Think the Ergonomics of Generators is Growing on Me’ — The author notes generator functions have been widely available in JavaScript for a long time, yet “their practicality hasn’t exactly caught on.” This is a great look at what they are and where

Making and parsing RSS and Atom feeds

#578 — May 13, 2025 Read on the Web 🖊️ I’m going to Google I/O next week, so Node Weekly will be taking a break and will return on May 27. If you happen to be at I/O too, say hi if you see an Englishman rambling on about newsletters!__Your editor, Peter Cooper Feedsmith: A Fresh

Big Node, VS Code, and Mantine updates

#735 — May 9, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly k6 1.0: Go-Powered Load Testing with JavaScript — A full-featured, configurable load generation tool that uses the Sobek Go-powered JavaScript engine to support writing test scripts in JavaScript. v1.0 promises stability, first-class TypeScript support, and better extensibility. Grafana Labs JSON-Powered White-Label Form Builder for Your

Node.js 24 released

#577 — May 6, 2025 Read on the Web Node 24 (Current) Released — Node’s release lines are in flux – v18 has just gone EOL and now v23 bows out to let v24 be the ‘Current’ release for when you want all the cutting edge features. It comes with npm 11, V8 13.6 (hello

Making V8 eager to compile your JavaScript

#734 — May 2, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly GSAP v3.13: JavaScript Animation Set Free — Last year the popular GSAP (a.k.a. GreenSock) animation library was acquired by Webflow and as of this new version the entire GSAP toolkit is freely available (including formerly paid addons like MorphSVG and SplitText) even for commercial use.