#706 — September 26, 2024 |
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JavaScript Weekly |
Deno 2.0 Release Candidate — Deno started life as a manifestation of ideas that Node’s original creator, Ryan Dahl, had after his experiences with Node. Deno 2 is the next step: how the Deno team thinks Deno should ultimately be. Many changes await: Bartek Iwańczuk and Andy Jiang |
Don't Sleep on Artem Zakharchenko |
Learn to Build Feature-Rich, Native Mobile Apps Using React Native and Expo — Join Kadi Kraman for a video course designed to hone your React skills. Whether a beginner, or looking to further refine your skill set, you'll learn to create practical iOS and Android apps, covering components, styling, UX, linting, async storage, animation, and much more. Frontend Masters sponsor |
How Josh W. Comeau Rebuilt His Blog, App Router Style — We’re huge fans of Josh’s blog and he’s just rebuilt it entirely using Next.js, MDX, Sandpack, and an array of other technologies. Here, he goes into great depth about what's involved. A good look behind the scenes of a modern React-driven project. Josh W Comeau |
IN BRIEF:
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RELEASES:
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📒 Articles & Tutorials |
A Guide to Destructuring in JavaScript — The destructuring assignment syntax appeared in ES6 almost ten years ago and has become a central part of modern JavaScript development. This is a good primer/reminder of the potential. Mat Marquis |
The Nine Node Pillars: Principles for Doing Node Right — A group of prolific and productive Node.js contributors have put together a checklist to identify gaps in your current Node development practices, particularly when building large-scale apps. Snell, Venditto, Dawson, Collina, et al. |
A Complete Guide to Session Management in Next.js — Learn how integrating session management into your app provides robust security and enhances user experience. Clerk sponsor |
What Are Durable Functions? A Visual JavaScript Primer — This is rather dependent on what Inngest, a durable function service, offers, but is a good primer to the general idea which may well suit your use cases. Lydia Hallie (Inngest) |
What's New in Express.js 5.0 — Express.js 5.0 landed recently with rather brief release notes, so here's a deeper look at what it has to offer. The updates are largely incremental, but set the stage for Express’s future. Trevor I. Lasn |
Angular Routing Essentials: Everything in One Post — A bold claim, but it does a pretty good job. Oleksandr Kocherhin |
Using Reddit's JSON API from a JavaScript App — How to pull data from Reddit’s API and display it in a simple web application built with Parcel. Muhammed Ali |
📺 Create a Donkey Kong Country-ish Platformer in JS – We don’t see the DKC resemblance, but it’s a solid 4 hour screencast. Chris Courses 📄 Implementing a 'Like' Button without Authentication Abhishek Saha |
🛠 Code & Tools |
Schedule-X 2: A Modern Event Calendar Component — Available in the form of React/Preact, Vue, Svelte, Angular, or plain JS components. Open source but with a premium version with extra features. GitHub repo. Tom Österlund |
🧹 Vue Mess Detector: Code and Quality Analysis for Vue Projects — A static analysis tool that can catch various bugs and code quality issues in Vue-based projects, built atop rules from the Vue.js Style Guide and others. GitHub repo. Various Contributors |
✂️ Cut Your QA Cycles Down from Hours to Minutes — QA Wolf's AI-native approach gets engineering teams to 80% automated end-to-end test coverage and helps them ship 2x faster by reducing QA cycles from hours to minutes. QA Wolf sponsor |
Tesseract.js: Pure JS OCR for 100+ Languages — A port of the C++-based Tesseract library commonly used for extract text from images. The homepage has a live demo where you can drop your own images. GitHub repo. Tesseract Team |
HumanifyJS: Deobfuscate JavaScript Code using ChatGPT — There’s an in-depth explainer here. The primary feature is its ability to reverse the loss of meaningful variable and function names based on the context of the code. Jesse Luoto |
Tests Are Dead. Meticulous Is Here — Automatically creates & maintains E2E UI tests. Zero flakes. Backed by YC, CTO of GitHub, CPO of Adobe, CEO of Vercel. Meticulous sponsor |
React Snap Carousel: DOM-First, Headless Carousel — Uses native browser scrolling and CSS scroll snap points for performance. Try out some of its features in its Storybook. The latest version adds support for infinite carousels. Richard Scarrott |
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