---
title: "Gorillas"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 674
published_at: "2024-02-08"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/674"
---

Plus jQuery and Backbone see releases, a shakeup for npm's role in Node.js, and Rich Harris on Svelte 5. |        

#​674 — February 8, 2024 

[Read on the Web](https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/674)  

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[jQuery 4.0.0 Beta](https://blog.jquery.com/2024/02/06/jquery-4-0-0-beta/) — I recently looked at [issue #1](https://web.archive.org/web/20140223054854/http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/1) of _JavaScript Weekly_ and the top two items were jQuery, so it’s nice to feature it :-) _You_ might not be using jQuery, but it's still everywhere, including WordPress. v4 says goodbye to IE 10 support, removes lots of deprecated APIs, and steps into the modern world just a tad (it even migrated to ESM). 

jQuery Foundation   

🎉 jQuery isn't the only blast from the past to get an update this week – [Backbone.js 1.6](https://backbonejs.org/) is out too! Let's party like it's 2014? _(Also, [🐦 Vue.js has just turned ten years old!](https://twitter.com/vuejs/status/1753678155444101385))_  

▶[Reimplementing GORILLAS.BAS in JavaScript](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q5EufbUEQk) — My first experience of publishing programming content was in the DOS [QBasic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic) era, so I have a soft spot for the [Gorillas game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_%28video_game%29) that came with QBasic. Hunor has recorded a spectacular screencast on reimplementing it in JavaScript, **but if you don't like videos, [there’s a detailed written tutorial, too](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/gorillas-game-in-javascript/)**. 

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▶[How to Make A Great Framework Better? - Svelte 5 with Rich Harris](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7n17ajJpCo) — A sit-down interview with Rich Harris, creator of Svelte and SvelteKit. Dives into the philosophy, features, and future of Svelte, and covers how it aims to simplify web dev and make apps faster through its build time compilation approach. _(78 minutes)_ 

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**IN BRIEF:** 

- Andy Jiang and Ryan Dahl of the Deno project bring us up to speed with [how Deno developed in 2023](https://deno.com/blog/deno-in-2023) and hint at the next steps to Deno 2.
- _The New Stack_'s Richard MacManus caught up with Remix CEO Michael Jackson to [talk about the role of Remix and Next.js](https://thenewstack.io/remix-takes-on-next-js-in-battle-of-the-react-frameworks/) in the context of the React framework ecosystem.
- 🎙 [Dan Abramov was recently interviewed](https://podrocket.logrocket.com/dan-abramov-react-rscs-future) on the _PodRocket_ podcast, if you want to catch up with what he's thinking.
- [Some Node.js security releases](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2024-security-releases) are expected to land today, including fixes for four high-severity issues. 🤞
- 📊 [The results of the latest State of React Native survey](https://results.stateofreactnative.com/) are out. 

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- [Million 3.0](https://million.dev/blog/million-3) – Optimizing compiler for React.
- [Vite 5.1](https://vitejs.dev/blog/announcing-vite5-1.html), [Bun 1.0.26](https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0.26), [Mermaid 10.8](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/releases/tag/v10.8.0), [Quill 2.0-rc0](https://quilljs.com/)   

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📒 Articles & Tutorials  

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[From Many to One: Moving Our JavaScript Code Into a Monorepo](https://www.aha.io/engineering/articles/monorepo) — A story of trying to reduce complexity, by way of Nx, pnpm workspaces and, eventually, [Turborepo](https://turbo.build/repo). _“It just works!”_ 

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▶[A Deep Dive into htmx](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=javGxN-h9VQ) — Covers the fundamentals, digging into htmx’s codebase – plus it’s an _unlisted_ video so you can feel like you’re in a secret club. 

Carson Gross   

[Detecting Caps Lock from JavaScript](https://davidwalsh.name/detect-caps-lock) 
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[Just Enough CORS to Not Get Stuck](https://blog.meain.io/2024/just-enough-cors/) 
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🛠 Code & Tools 

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[Marked.js 12.0: Fast Markdown Parsing and Compiling](https://marked.js.org/) — A low-level Markdown compiler built for speed and available as a client-side library, server-side library, or CLI. v12 brings it in line with [recent CommonMark updates](https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/changes.html). 

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[Storybook 8 Beta](https://storybook.js.org/blog/storybook-8-beta/) — The latest update to the popular UI component workshop has improvements a-plenty including faster startup times, [React Server Components support](https://storybook.js.org/blog/storybook-8-beta/#react-server-components), as well as support for Vite 5 and Lit 3. 

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[react-native-live-markdown: A Cross-Platform Markdown Editor](https://github.com/Expensify/react-native-live-markdown) — A drop-in replacement for React Native’s `TextInput` component but with Markdown formatting. 

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[Vue Currency Input: Currency Formatted Number Inputs for Vue.js](https://github.com/dm4t2/vue-currency-input) — Based on `Intl.NumberFormat` and sitting atop the Vue Composition API, you can use this to decorate any input component with currency formatting capabilities. 

Matthias Stiller   

- ✂️ [Knip 4.5](https://knip.dev/) – Cut unused files and exports from JS/TS projects.
- [NVM Desktop 3.0](https://github.com/1111mp/nvm-desktop) – Desktop UI for Node Version Manager.
- [Puppeteer Replay 3.0](https://github.com/puppeteer/replay) – Replay recordings from _Chrome DevTools Recorder._
- [React Date Picker 6.1](https://github.com/Hacker0x01/react-datepicker) – Simple date picker component. ([Demo](https://reactdatepicker.com/).)
- 📊 [gridstack.js 10.1](https://gridstackjs.com/) – Build responsive interactive dashboards quickly.
- [query-string 8.2](https://github.com/sindresorhus/query-string) – Parse and stringify URL query strings.
- [ml.js 7.0](https://github.com/mljs/ml) – Machine learning tools for JavaScript.
- [SWC 1.4](https://swc.rs/) – Rust-based tooling for the Web.         

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