Speeding Up the JS Ecosystem, One Library at a Time — JavaScript projects are often so reliant upon dependencies that there are many opportunities to speed up swathes of the ecosystem by fixing small performance issues. Here, one of Preact’s developers shares how he’s been discovering such low hanging, yet hidden, fruit. Learning these techniques will take you (and us, hopefully) far.
Marvin Hagemeister
📒 Articles & Tutorials
Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte — After two years of Vue 2, a team had a decision to make: move to Vue 3 or give Svelte a try?
Sophie Boulaaouli (Escape)
V8:Pointer Compression in Oilpan — This is barely about JS but shows off the low level optimizations the V8 team does to make JavaScript more efficient for us. This is about using smaller pointers, because who needs 64 bits anyway?
Bikineev and Lippautz (V8 Team)
🛠 Code & Tools
Mithril.js: Client-Side Framework for Single Page Apps — A neat alternative to things like Vue, React or Angular. It’s been around for years and deserves more attention we feel. Mithril is compact, fast, and runs closer to vanilla JS than the alternatives so is well suited for bringing together vanilla JS libraries. Want to compare it to $your_favorite_framework? Here you go.
Mithril
Software Engineer — Join our “kick ass” team. Our software team operates from 17 countries and we’re always looking for more exceptional engineers. Stickermule
Find JavaScript Jobs with Hired — Create a profile on Hired to connect with hiring managers at growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. It’s free for job-seekers. Hired
