Category: angular js

Vitest: A Vite-Powered ‘Blazing Fast’ Unit Testing Framework — Brings a lot of cool stuff into one place and really is quick – if you want near instant feedback when you change your code, check it out. You get Vite’s transformers, resolvers, and plugins, snapshot…

Mathematical Notation Explained with JavaScript — Math has its own fascinating world of notation but if it feels a bit opaque to you, this post will help. It boils down numerous areas of mathematical notation into JavaScript equivalents making it easier to follow what’s going on.…

Don’t miss the link with a ⭐️ next to it in this issue, I promise it’s good 🙂 Jest Image Snapshot: A Jest Matcher for Image Comparisons — Say hello to visual regression testing using this tool from American Express. Take image snapshots of your app…

npm Security Update: What GitHub’s Learnt About April’s Attack — Last month, GitHub, the stewards of the npm registry, reported that stolen OAuth tokens were used to access certain private repositories, private package manifests & metadata, as well as npm user account data. Here’s an…

Headless CMS with World-Class TypeScript Support — Kontent handles all your content management. Streamline your code using TypeScript SDK, CLI, Rich Text resolver, and strongly typed Model Generator and scale with no problems when your project grows. Have you seen our UI? Kontent by Kentico Web…

Using Google’s CrUX to Compare Performance of JS Frameworks — Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) is a dataset of user experience metrics collected from real world Chrome users and it’s possible to use it to analyze and compare the performance profiles of different UI frameworks,…

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…

Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks — While the pre-2012 history is a bit fuzzy given the author’s experiences, this is a nice retrospective and attempt to break down the history of JavaScript frameworks into four eras, each of which builds upon what came before. Chris Garrett…

Lots of bits and pieces this week like running JavaScript on MS-DOS(!?), a deep dive on a V8 optimization, writing React apps on top of Ruby on Rails, a JS runtime for a tiny microcontroller, and, oh, a huge Node release.. Lexical: An Extensible Text…

JS Function Composition: What’s The Big Deal? — James’ articles on JavaScript fundamentals have been very popular over the years, so it’s great to see a new one focusing on a common activity: function composition — “Why, then, do functional programmers get all worked up…