--- title: "V8 stepping up to four-week release cycle" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 528 published_at: "2021-03-05" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/528" --- Plus Gatsby 3.0, Deno 1.8, and a peer to peer distributed database. | #528 — March 5, 2021 [Unsubscribe](https://javascriptweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Read on the Web](https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/528) 😆 If this were an episode of _Friends_, it would be called something like _"The One With All The Big Releases"_ — enjoy! __ _Peter Cooper, editor_ JavaScript Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/vzlfcateqmej3j3y7eh4.jpg)](http://blog.jquery.com/2021/03/02/jquery-3-6-0-released/) [jQuery 3.6.0 Released](http://blog.jquery.com/2021/03/02/jquery-3-6-0-released/) — I’m always delighted to share jQuery news for a few reasons. First, it’s one of the best JavaScript nostalgia trips we still have. Second, jQuery is still _so heavily used_ whether in CMSes or even by developers who simply continue to appreciate it. The updates are minor here, but we’re promised a jQuery 4.0 is on the way. Timmy Willison [V8 (and Chrome) to Get Faster Release Cycle](https://v8.dev/blog/faster-releases) — Google Chrome is [speeding up its release cycle](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/faster-release-cycle/) from six weeks to four weeks (so get ready for Chrome 100 this time next year!) and the V8 team are stepping up to match it. Ingvar Stepanyan [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/a89f1a3f.png)](https://ter.li/ky1g0a) [Get Your Free SPOTcon 2021 Tickets Today](https://ter.li/ky1g0a) — Join hundreds of developers on March 26, 2021 for Scout APM's inaugural digital conference on performance, observability & transforming the future of web application development. The SPOTcon 2021 speaker lineup and agenda are now available. SPOTcon by Scout APM sponsor [Gatsby 3.0 Released](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/blog/gatsby-v3/) — Gatsby is a React-based open source framework with performance, scalability and security built-in. v3.0 promises an 80% speed improvement to the local development experience. They've also introduced [Gatsby Hosting](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/blog/introducing-gatsby-cloud-hosting/). Hashim Warren (Gatsby) [Electron 12.0.0 Released](https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-12-0) — Despite some compelling alternatives like [Neutralino](https://neutralino.js.org/) and [Tauri](https://tauri.studio/en/), Electron remains the big cheese in the _‘build desktop apps with JavaScript’_ game. v12 updates from Node 12 to 14 (hello V8 8.9!) and to Chromium 89. OpenJS Foundation and contributors Quick Bits - The [latest version of VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_54) has been released with stable Apple Silicon builds, TypeScript 4.2.2, and a 'quick fix' feature for [adding missing function declarations](https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_54#_quick-fix-to-declare-missing-functions). - Vue Mastery have opened up free access to their [Vue 3 + TypeScript course](https://www.vuemastery.com/free-week-ts/) till March 9 (next Tuesday). - RedMonk is a top developer analyst firm and their [latest programming language rankings report](https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/03/01/language-rankings-1-21/) is fantastic news for JavaScript (which is the #1 language) and TypeScript (now at 8th). - [Deno 1.8](https://deno.land/posts/v1.8) has landed with experimental support for WebGPU, making doing GPU-based computation from JavaScript even easier. 💻 Jobs [Full Time Front-end Software Engineer (Remote)](https://jobs.lever.co/metabase/8f02d3fa-edf4-4433-a6d1-4f9e517ac8f9) — Experienced with React? Write fast, performant code? If so, join us on our journey to help companies better measure, analyze and share their data. Metabase [JavaScript Developer at X-Team (Remote)](https://x-team.com/remote-javascript-developer-jobs/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email-ad&utm_campaign=js) — Join the most energizing community for developers and work on projects for Riot Games, FOX, Sony, Coinbase, and more. X-Team [Find Your Next Job Through Hired](https://hired.com/join/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=%28b2c%29%28l-all%29%28r-all%29%28cooper-javascriptweekly%29&utm_content=find-your-next-job) — Create a profile on Hired to connect with hiring managers at growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. It's free for job-seekers. Hired 📖 Articles, Opinion & Tutorials ▶[How to Build a Space Invaders Clone in JavaScript](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nz4Yp7Y_uA) — Ania set herself a fun challenge to try and code up Space Invaders as quickly as possible while explaining what she’s doing at the same time. It's fun to follow her thought process. Ania Kubów [Building a Discord Bot Using Discord.js](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/02/building-discord-bot-discordjs/) — Node is ideal for building chat bots and here’s a complete walkthrough of using the [Discord.js](https://discord.js.org/#/) library to do this on the Discord chat system to create a joke posting bot. Subha Chanda [Breakpoints and `console.log` Is the Past, Time Travel Is the Future](https://wallabyjs.com/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_campaign=javascriptweekly&utm_content=javascript) — 15x faster JavaScript debugging than with breakpoints and console.log. Wallaby.js sponsor [Serving Dynamic Meta Tags to Bots and Crawlers using Firebase and Cloudflare Workers](https://richard-0094.medium.com/dynamic-meta-tags-for-bots-and-crawlers-using-firebase-and-cloudflare-workers-b351cd7045db) — With it being so suited to low latency, on the fly processing of live HTTP requests, _Cloudflare Workers_ lets you do rather different things to most other serverless platforms. This isn’t the most efficient example but is a neat idea nonetheless. Richard Cooke [CSS-in-JS Support in DevTools](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2021/02/css-in-js) — Google’s take on managing your CSS with JavaScript using the facilities available with their [DevTools](https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools). Alex Rudenko [The Complete Guide to Angular Security](https://christianlydemann.com/the-complete-guide-to-angular-security/) — Goes through the OWASP top 10 security threats and relates them to Angular development. Christian Lüdemann [How an Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript Developer” Became a Fan](https://t.co/Mnq0zRJOJU?amp=1) — The on-going increase in TypeScript’s popularity makes opinion pieces like this all the more interesting to me, despite being reasonably shallow. Chirag Swadia [Build a Video Chat Service with JavaScript, WebRTC, and Okta](https://developer.okta.com/blog/2020/10/21/webrtc-videochat-javascript?utm_campaign=newsletter_cooperpress_all_multiple_ao_dev_fy21-q4-dev-awareness_null&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=cpc) Okta sponsor [The Darker Side of JS: Three Features You Never Want to Use](https://blog.bitsrc.io/the-dark-side-of-javascript-a-look-at-3-features-you-never-want-to-use-83b6f0b3804b) — None of these will surprise long standing JavaScript developers (especially _The Best Parts_ readers). Fernando Doglio ['I've Used The `pipe()` Function 2,560 Times and I Can Tell You It's Good'](https://www.obvibase.com/dev-blog/i-ve-used-the-pipe-function-2-560-times-and-i-can-tell-you-it-s-good) Ivan Novikov 🛠 Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/ljusrjlcwrvzdpztkqmw.jpg)](https://shepherdjs.dev/) [Shepherd: Guide Your Users Through a Tour of Your App](https://shepherdjs.dev/) — I love how the homepage for this project shows off the actual feature it provides. This isn’t a brand new project but continues to get frequent updates. Ship Shape [OrbitDB: Peer to Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web](https://orbitdb.org/) — A serverless, distributed, peer-to-peer database that uses IPFS for storage and automatically syncs across peers. It’s limited to Node and browser use cases for now and [here’s an introductory guide](https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db/blob/master/GUIDE.md). OrbitDB Community [Enhance Front-end Performance by Rapidly Resolving JavaScript Errors](https://www.datadoghq.com/dg/real-user-monitoring/frontend-performance?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-JavascriptWeeklyFrontendB) Datadog Synthetics sponsor [Swiper: A Modern Mobile Touch Slider](https://swiperjs.com/) — Complete with hardware accelerated transitions and native-like behavior. There are integrations with React, Svelte, Vue.js and Angular, too. Vladimir Kharlampidi [web-minecraft: A Minecraft Client Written in JavaScript](https://github.com/michaljaz/web-minecraft) — I haven’t had time to test this for myself yet, alas, but this sounds like quite the project. Michał Jażdżyk **🆕 Quick releases:** - [Node 15.11.0](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v15.11.0/) - [jQuery 3.6.0](https://github.com/jquery/jquery) — Featured in a story above. - [Aurelia 2 Alpha 1](http://aurelia.io/blog/2021/3/3/the-aurelia-2-alpha-release-is-now-available) — Reactive client-side framework. - [Pixi.js 6.0](https://github.com/pixijs/pixi.js/releases/tag/v6.0.0) — Fast 2D graphics library leaning on WebGL for performance. - [date-fns 2.19.0](https://github.com/date-fns/date-fns/releases/tag/v2.19.0) — Modern JavaScript date utility library. Published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/) and edited by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) 'JavaScript' is a trademark of Oracle Corporation in the US We are not endorsed by or affiliated with Oracle. [Change your email address](https://javascriptweekly.com/edit_subscription/*|UID|*) or [stop getting this newsletter](https://javascriptweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*). © Cooper Press Ltd · Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, United Kingdom