Speeding Up the JS Ecosystem: The Barrel File Debacle — Marvin continues his tour through the world of JavaScript performance fixes with a look at how some innocent looking code can make tools run slower than they should. Test runners and many import cycle detection tools are most affected.

Marvin Hagemeister

🌊  Building a Water/Fluid Simulation in JavaScript — Hard to explain, but a lot of thought and care has gone into this tutorial of sorts. The live demos are nice, too. Uses p5.js behind the scenes.

Kenichi Yoneda

Strongly Typed and in the ⛅: Meet EdgeDB 4.0 — EdgeDB is an open-source database focused on developer experience. It features a high-level, modern data model, integrated schema migrations, and a TypeScript query builder that makes it easy to write advanced, fast queries, putting ORMs to shame.

EdgeDB sponsor

Angular and Qwik's Creator on How JS Frameworks Handle Reactivity — A summary of Miško Hevery’s keynote from the International JavaScript Conference looking at reactivity across the major frameworks.

Loraine Lawson (The New Stack)

A Web Server ‘Hello World’ Benchmark: Go vs Node vs Nim vs Bun — The standard disclaimer applies: benchmarks are difficult and don’t always measure what you should care about.

Daniel Lemire

Evidence: Reports Synced to Your Data with SQL and Markdown — An open source, code-based alternative to drag-and-drop business intelligence tools. ▶️ This nine minute screencast does a good job at showing off what it can do.

Evidence

Payload 2.0: A Headless CMS Platform Built on Node — A Node-based headless CMS providing an app framework-like experience, including a customizable React-based admin system, GraphQL or REST APIs, flexible auth and file upload systems, etc. v2.0 introduces Postgres support (in addition to MongoDB), Vite support, and a new rich text editor. GitHub repo.

James Mikrut

Add Figma Like Collaborative Features Without Re-Architecting Your App — Create collaborative features, from live cursors to avatar stacks with Spaces, our in-app collaboration SDK.

Ably sponsor

Visual Studio Code Extension Tester v5.10 — A framework for simulating user interactions with VS Code and its extensions via Selenium Webdriver.

Red Hat

audioMotion-analyzer: Real-Time Audio Spectrum Analyzer — A high-resolution real-time audio spectrum analyzer JavaScript module with no dependencies. Gives a single or dual channel view. (Note the AGPL license.) GitHub repo.

Henrique Avila Vianna