#576 — April 29, 2025 Read on the Web Koa 3.0: The Expressive HTTP Middleware Framework — Koa first appeared over a decade ago as a ‘next-generation’ Web framework that shared some of the lineage (and team) of Express.js, but leaning on more modern JavaScript features and ideas of the time. While Express has been
#733 — April 25, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly p5.js 2.0: The JavaScript Library for Creative Coding — A popular Processing-inspired creative coding library that makes it easy to create interactive, visual experiences (examples). v2.0 improves its font support, adds more ways to draw and manipulate text, adds a way to write shaders
#575 — April 22, 2025 Read on the Web Optimizing Node Performance with V8 GC Optimization — Matteo recently ▶️ gave a talk at dotJS about Node’s memory usage and decided to write it up into a blog post too. Matteo notes that high memory usage doesn’t necessarily mean you have a memory leak, explains how
#732 — April 18, 2025 Read on the Web 🥚 A Good Friday, if you celebrate Easter at all. We’re taking a little break but didn’t want to take the entire week off, so we have a slimline issue for you today 🙂 We’ll be back to full service next Friday!__Peter Cooper, your editor JavaScript Weekly The
#574 — April 15, 2025 Read on the Web Fastify + React – 7x Faster than Next.js? — Node’s Fastify framework has a mature plugin for Vite integration (explained in detail here), including @fastify/react which just hit version 1.0 and makes it easy to create fast, featureful (though obviously less so than Next.js) React apps
#731 — April 11, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly 🤖 Firebase Studio: Google’s New Agentic AI-Powered Development Environment — Buzzing from the success of Gemini 2.5 Pro for dev tasks, Google’s Firebase team gets in on the AI development action with a Cursor/v0/Lovable-a-like of its own for building apps in the browser. Google Some Features
#573 — April 8, 2025 Read on the Web Node.js Testing Best Practices — A detailed guide to modern testing in Node from a group of developers who know all about it. It’s on GitHub but is essentially written like a free book covering over 50 battle-tested tips covering areas as diverse as the ‘Testing
#730 — April 4, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Bare: A New Lightweight Runtime for Modular JS Apps — Imagine something like Node.js but really stripped back: bare, if you will. Like Node, it’s built on top of V8 and libuv (though it’s designed to support multiple JavaScript engines) but Bare’s approach is
#572 — April 1, 2025 Read on the Web Express 5.1: Express 5 Finally Becomes the ‘Latest’ Release — After a period of some dormancy, Express 5.0 was released last year, but remained a somewhat experimental ‘edge’ release as it went through a security audit and process of building up new governance. With 5.1, however,
#729 — March 28, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly ⭐ The State of Vue.js Report 2025 — Created with the support of the Vue and Nuxt teams, this is no mere collection of statistics and charts (though there’s plenty of both) but a thorough update on the state of both projects and an interview