Category: angular js

A 2024 JavaScript retrospective

December 19, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

🎄 We’ve made it to the end of 2024! In this issue, we’re being reflective, leading with a few news items but then looking at what made 2024 special in the world of JavaScript, and covering some of the biggest things we linked to this…

Benchmarking Node’s recent performance enhancements

December 12, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Boa v0.20: An Alternative JavaScript Compiler — Under development for several years, Boa has a few missions: be a Rust ECMAScript implementation, be easy to embed in Rust projects, and be a fast, safe JS engine overall. v0.20 sees a bump up to 89.92% compliance…

Oracle engages its lawyers and JavaScript turns 29

December 5, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

🗓️ If you missed last week’s issue, don’t worry, it didn’t exist – we took a week off for Thanksgiving! We’re now back all the way through to the Christmas break 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper Deno v. Oracle: Cancelling the JavaScript Trademark — Did you…

Exploring JavaScript symbols

November 21, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

🦃 We’re taking next week off for Thanksgiving. We don’t celebrate it in our country, but we know many of you do, so it seemed a good time for a break. We’ll be back on Thursday December 5.__Your editor, Peter Cooper Angular v19 Released — The…

Will we care about frameworks in an AI world?

November 14, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Component Party: A Rosetta Stone of UI Libraries — A long-standing comparison of many different frameworks (like React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Qwik, Solid.js, etc.) by way of simple code snippets to perform various tasks. Now including Svelte 5 and Angular 17/Renaissance. Mathieu Schimmerling Will We Care About…

JSConf is back

November 7, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

💡 He also took a similar look at the pipeline operator |>, but this feature is still only in draft as a proposal. 🇺🇸 JSConf is Back; Here’s the Details — Two months ago, the OpenJS Foundation announced that the popular JSConf brand was joining the foundation…

Cutting JavaScript into two: trick or treat?

October 31, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Python Jumps to #1 on GitHub Over JavaScript, But… — GitHub Universe took place this week, flooding us with data about how folks are using the platform. Of interest to those on social media was that Python has taken JavaScript’s #1 language crown, though many…

A huge week for both Svelte and Next.js

October 24, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Svelte 5 is Alive — The long awaited next major release of Svelte, the compiler-driven JS UI framework, is the “most significant release in the project’s history”, while remaining largely backwards compatible. A big addition is runes for explicitly declaring reactive state, but there’s much…

JS0 + JSSugar not so sweet?

October 17, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

The Story of Web Framework Hono, By Its Creator — Hono is a neat, lightweight framework designed to run on any JavaScript runtime that has been picking up steam in the past year. You can create a simple app reminiscent of Express.js, say, but run…

A huge week for ECMAScript proposals

October 10, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

🦖 Announcing Deno 2 — A huge release for the “what if I reinvented Node again from scratch?” runtime. Backwards compatibility with Node is a headline feature, but there’s a lot more baked in. Best, though, is the ▶️ epic ‘Announcing Deno 2’ video. After a slightly…