If you request a URL that returns an application/JSON result Firefox will give you a “Download this file” dialog by default. If you rather want the JSON data to show up just as a XML, RSS or HTML page would you could download this little extension called JsonView that will do this for you. Another nice little tool to keep in your tool belt.
#764 — December 5, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly 🎉 JavaScript Turns 30 Years Old 🎉 Back in May 1995, a 33 year old Brendan Eich built the first prototype of JavaScript in just ten days, originally codenamed Mocha (and then LiveScript). On December 4, 1995, Netscape and Sun Microsystems officially announced ‘JavaScript’ in a
#603 — December 2, 2025 Read on the Web Tinybench 6.0: A Tiny, Simple Benchmarking Library — Uses whatever precise timing capabilities are available (e.g. process.hrtime or performance.now). You can then benchmark whatever functions you want, specify how long or how many times to benchmark for, and get a variety of stats in return –
#763 — November 28, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Over 150 Algorithms and Data Structures Demonstrated in JS — Examples of many common algorithms (e.g. bit manipulation, Pascal’s triangle, Hamming distance) and data structures (e.g. linked lists, tries, graphs) with explanations. Available in eighteen other written languages too. Oleksii Trekhleb et al. TypeScript: From
#602 — November 25, 2025 Read on the Web How a Summer in Abruzzo Helped Bring Type Stripping to Node.js — Node.js TSC member and committer Marco tells the personal tale of what it took to bring type stripping (now considered stable) to Node. It’s neat to get the back story. He’s now working on
#762 — November 21, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Google Announces Angular v21 — The Google team has gone all out with this significant release of its popular JavaScript framework. They’ve put together a retro game-themed adventure-based tour of what’s new, along with top notch videos showing off features like its new signal-based
#601 — November 18, 2025 Read on the Web Node.js v25.2.1 (Current) Released (and 25.2.0 with Type Stripping Marked ‘Stable’) — v25.2.0 was released hours after we hit send last week (often the way!) and marked type stripping as stable, meaning all major server-side runtimes now support TypeScript officially (at least in type-stripping form). v25.2.1,
