A 2022 take on TodoMVC in plain JS
May 6, 2022 
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Ryan Dahl on ‘JavaScript Containers’ — Ryan, originally known for Node and now Deno, thinks about JavaScript as being a universal scripting language and how the JS sandbox acts as a sort of high level version of the traditional Linux container and will only become more important in the next few years. Ryan Dahl |
Wallaby.js: 15x Faster JavaScript/Jest Testing and Debugging — Wallaby runs your tests immediately as you type, with runtime values, errors and code coverage displayed in real-time right next to your code. Most popular testing frameworks are supporting, including the recently released Jest v28. Wallaby.js |
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Why I Don’t Miss React — Not a call to drop React, a declaration of it being ‘dead’, or that all frameworks are useless, but the author went from using React every day to not using it at all, and had a more pleasant time than he was expecting. Jack Franklin |
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But.. it’s not all bad news for React, Anthony Trama and his team loved Ember but moved to React and they’re even happier for it. |
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IN BRIEF:
RELEASES: pnpm 7.0 – Efficiency-focused npm alternative. |
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📒 Articles & Tutorials |
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Porting Zelda Classic to the Web — I’m unsure whether to be impressed or depressed that such a fascinating and deeply technical article about putting a game on the Web doesn’t contain a single line of JavaScript, despite JS related advanced being what made this all possible, but this is a great piece of work. If you prefer playing to reading, though, the end result is here. Connor Clark |
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How To Build a Modal Dialog as a Web Component — “Write once and run everywhere, so to speak, or at least that was my lofty aspiration. Good news. It is indeed possible to build a modal with rich interaction that only requires authoring HTML to use.” Nathan Smith |
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▶ The Stack of The Future — Considering Kent works at Remix, you might not be surprised that Remix is at the heart of this 😉 Kent C Dodds |
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🛠 Code & Tools |
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🐍 We’re Not Python Weekly But We’ve Still Got Some Python Stuff for You Anyway |
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JSPyBridge 1.0: A Bridge Between Node and Python — A work in progress but offers the ability to go either way – run Python from Node, or run Node from Python ‘with a native feel.’ “Unlike other bridges, you may notice you’re not just writing Python code in JavaScript, or vice-versa. You can operate on objects on the other side of the bridge as if the objects existed on your side.” extremeheat |
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Pyscript: Run Python in Your HTML — A framework for creating Python apps in the browser by way of HTML. You get bi-directional communication with JavaScript, too. Unsurprisingly, WebAssembly is what does the heavy lifting and makes this all possible. More background here. Anaconda Inc. |
