Category: javascript

College Students’ Guide to Future Tech: Web Development Trends

August 12, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

The tech landscape is ever-changing, and web development stands as no exception. With an upsurge in digital evolution across all sectors, web development skills remain in high demand. The digital epoch requires web developers not only to master the latest technologies and trends but to…

Svelte 5 is going to be radical

August 10, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM — What a post! Mark, well known for his work on React, Redux, and much more, details the painful experiences and hard-earned lessons he picked up while migrating the Redux packages to ES modules. Mark ‘acemarke’ Erikson Things You Forgot (or…

Taking JavaScript into Python

August 3, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

A Tale of Evading JavaScript Anti-Debugging Techniques — When you’re poking arounddebugging code written and distributed by a third party, there might be some sneaky traps thrown in your path to prevent your usual techniques from working. What next? Disable breakpoints in DevTools? Use a…

Name mangling

July 27, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Hono + Htmx + Cloudflare: A New Stack? — A lot of people seem to be jumping on htmx lately as an alternative to the complexity of frameworks like React, but what if you want to keep using JSX? Hono is a (vaguely Express-like) Web…

The tale of how static typing came to JavaScript

July 20, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

TypeScript and the Dawn of Gradual Types — From GitHub’s ReadME project comes a thorough journalistic take on how static typing made it into the JavaScript world, what TypeScript offers, some alternative approaches, and the possibility of adding type annotations to JavaScript iself. Mike Melanson (GitHub)…

htmx in 100 seconds

July 13, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Test and Validate APIs Effectively and Efficiently — Gain access to several API testing tools and features that help you automate repetitive tasks, stay organized, and build robust workflows to ensure your APIs remain reliable and performant. Postman 🎉 RELEASES: ⚡️ IN BRIEF: 📒 Articles & Tutorials…

CommonJS, we love you, we love you not..

July 6, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

What’s Next for JavaScript: New Features to Look Forward to — A reassuring and high level look at just what goes into making JavaScript better over time, along with some of the new things about to appear or still making their way through the arduous…

This is a doozy of an issue

June 29, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

A Massive Bug at the Heart of the npm Ecosystem — “This is a doozy,” says the author, who used to work on the npm CLI team. We don’t want to spoil his story too much, but in short, package manifests and actual package contents…

Svelte 4 released

June 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

UnsuckJS: Comparing Lightweight JavaScript Options — “No build tools, no compilers, and no hassle.” It’s a table of frontend JavaScript libraries on a simple page – that’s it! But it’s a handy table, letting you see the relative popularity, size, and latest versions of libraries as…

11 years of JavaScript on top

June 15, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Perhaps best known as the creator of Angular, Miško is on a fresh mission with Qwik. Recently reaching v1.0 and focusing on the ‘instant’ delivery of full-stack apps to end users, Qwik takes an interesting approach around ‘streaming’ JavaScript to the client only when needed.…