Introducing Crank.js: A New JSX-Driven Framework — A new framework for creating JSX-driven components with functions, promises and generators. If you haven’t got time to read the creator’s lengthy (but well worth reading!) rationale for creating another framework, check out the GitHub repo or jump straight into a CodeSandbox example. I hope to see a lot more about this in the near future.

Brian Kim

The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks — Using data from the HTTP Archive, Tim explores the performance cost of using various popular frameworks as a starting point. Some good analysis here.

Tim Kadlec

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Node.js 14 Released — v14 now becomes the current ‘release’ line with it becoming a LTS (Long Term Support) release in October. Diagnostic reports are now a stable feature, it now uses V8 8.1, there's an experimental Async Local Storage API, and more.

Michael Dawson and Bethany Griggs

Vidact: A Compiler to Convert React-like Apps to Vanilla JS — Compiles pure React-compatible JavaScript (JSX) to vanilla JavaScript with no virtual DOM.. think similar to Svelte, but without introducing a new syntax. A curious idea.

Mohamad Mohebifar

Highlight.js 10.0: The Web Syntax Highlighter Library — I always laugh when I see a big release of a popular library and saw we last linked it 5 years ago 😄 Nonetheless, this is a big release and Highlight.js continues to be a fantastic library for syntax highlighting code.

highlight.js

Senior Full-stack Developer (Malmö/Sweden) — Every day is different from the next. Join our upbeat Team and work on exciting, major projects using a modern JavaScript stack.

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Creating Web Apps via TypeScript and webpack — The example app doesn’t use any front-end framework, just vanilla DOM APIs. Some knowledge of TypeScript, webpack, and npm are required, but this is a neat way to bring together a bunch of tools.

Axel Rauschmayer

What Is The toJSON() Function? — If an object has a toJSON function, JSON.stringify() calls toJSON() and serializes the return value from toJSON() instead.

Valeri Karpov

A Much Faster Way to Debug Code Than with Breakpoints or console.log — Move forward and backwards through your code to understand what led to a specific bug, view runtime values, edit-and-continue, and more.

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How Does TypeScript Work? A Bird’s Eye View — Dr. Axel goes into depth on the structure of a typical TypeScript project, what gets compiled, and how can an IDE be used to write TypeScript. Aimed at people who haven’t yet picked TypeScript up.

Axel Rauschmayer

10 Lesser Known Angular Features You've Probably Never Used

W3Radar

You Might Not Need switch — Using an object of outcomes instead of switch suits many use cases, though take care over readability.

Valentino Gagliardi

Phelia: A Reactive Slack Application Framework — If you think Slack apps were all about text bots, think again.. you can now create apps complete with in-app UIs. Phelia brings the React approach to the task.

Max Chehab

Marked.js 1.0: A Fast Markdown Parser and Compiler — Got Markdown to render? Marked.js to the rescue. While the project is years old, 1.0 has dropped just this week. Here’s a live demo.

Christopher Jeffrey

Stream Chat API & JavaScript SDK for Custom Chat Apps — Build real-time chat in less time. Rapidly ship in-app messaging with our highly reliable chat infrastructure.

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Alpine.js: A Minimal Framework for Composing JS Behavior in Your Markup — We only gave Alpine a brief link when it first dropped but with new versions coming out thick and fast, we think it’s well worth a look. Billed as “like Tailwind for JavaScript”, Alpine lets you keep the HTML you know and love and just pepper it with JavaScript as and where appropriate.

Alpine.js

enroute: A React Router with a Small Footprint for Modern Browsers

TJ Holowaychuk

Rosetta: A General Purpose Internationalization Library in 292 Bytes — Less than 300 bytes, but does have a few dependencies. Aims to be very simple and is targeted at basic string use cases.

Luke Edwards

NAB 2020 May Be Canceled, But The Full Bitmovin Experience Is Not

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Hotkey 1.4: Trigger an Action on an Element When a 'Hotkey' is Pressed — Use Hotkey, set the data-hotkey attribute on your elements, and you get keyboard shortcuts. GitHub built and uses it (look for the data-hotkey attributes on their pages).

GitHub

web-worker: Consistent Web Workers for the Browser and Node — In Node it works as a web-compatible Worker implementation atop worker_threads. In the browser it’s an alias for Worker.

Jason Miller