Creating Realistic Handwriting with p5.js — Amy wanted to programatically bring her (cursive) handwriting into some diagrams she was making and figured out how to make it happen with p5.js. Here's how.

Amy Goodchild

SolidStart 1.0: The Shape of Frameworks to Come? — SolidJS is a React-inspired declarative UI library but with a performance focus and templates compiled to real DOM nodes receiving direct DOM updates – no VDOM. SolidStart is a framework for building and deploying SolidJS apps with many compelling features right out of the box.

SolidJS Core Team

WorkOS: Enterprise-Grade Auth You Can Implement in Minutes — Like an enterprise plan in a box: WorkOS provides flexible, easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, Audit Logs, User Management, and more. Used by some of the hottest startups including Perplexity, Vercel, & Webflow. Future-proof your auth stack with WorkOS.

WorkOS sponsor

Angular v18 Released — The large-scale framework got a big public revival last year with Angular 17 and its new homepage. Things continue to progress with experimental support for zoneless change detection and the new built-in control flow approach becoming stable.

Minko Gechev

City in a Bottle: Raycasting in 256 Bytes — Frank has a great reputation for putting together stunning visual demos with the tiniest amounts of JavaScript. This is no exception. He goes into a lot of detail about how it works; you’ll learn a few things and/or come away awe-struck.

Frank Force

5 Easy Tips to Improve Your Personal Website Performance — Salma Alam-Naylor shares easy ways to give your personal website (and all other websites, in fact) a performance boost.

Sentry sponsor

Chrome DevTools Offers AI for Understanding Errors and Warnings — Not everyone is going to like this, but it’s optional. Also: the first Chrome feature that requires you be over 18?

Guo, Emelianova, and Yeen (Google)

📊 A Guide to JS Performance Analysis with Chrome DevTools — If your prefer your debugging experience AI-free, rest easy. This is a thorough walkthrough of the practicalities of using the Chrome DevTools for digging into performance issues.

Jiayi Hu

Software Consultants Your Team Actually Wants to Work with 🥳 — Test Double solves tough problems from strategy to execution. Weekly rates. Open contracts. No management required.

Test Double sponsor

🖋️ Signature Pad 5.0: Smooth Signature Drawing Control — If you need people to give you their John Hancock on the web, use this to let them make their unintelligible, but legally binding, scribbles. GitHub repo.

Szymon Nowak

VitePress 1.2: Vite & Vue Powered Static Site Generator — From the creator of both Vue.js and Vite, a Markdown-oriented static site generator with a particularly smooth developer experience.

Evan You

Ditch Passwords for Good: Embrace the Future of Secure Login with Passkeys — Ditch passwords for passkeys, the secure biometric login solution eliminating password pain while fortifying user accounts.

FusionAuth sponsor

Jira.js 4.0: A Wrapper for Atlassian Jira's Cloud APIs — Love Jira? Become even happier by interacting with it with code. Docs and examples.

Vladislav Tupikin