Category: next js

It’s time to go ESM-only

February 14, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Style Observer: A Library to Observe CSS Property Changes — Lea Verou is a developer who’s easy to admire because whenever she sets out to solve a problem, the results are always fully formed with no cut corners. So it goes with this ‘exhaustively tested’ JS…

Oracle dabbles in some JavaScript comedy

February 7, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

There Are a Lot of Ways to Break Up Long Tasks in JavaScript — Due to how browsers and the event loop work, letting a single task hog the main thread is a quick way to freeze up your site’s UI. Alex explains the problem…

A WebAssembly compiler in 192 bytes

January 31, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

JavaScript: The Hard Parts — Take your knowledge to the next level with the most loved JavaScript course in the industry. Deepen your understanding of the most important aspects of JavaScript. This highly rated video course goes under the hood, looking at callbacks, higher-order functions,…

Bun’s on a roll with v1.2

January 24, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

🦖 ..and by no means should we forget Deno whose team have published a roundup of all of Deno’s progress in the past year. FlexGrid by Wijmo: The Industry-Leading JavaScript Datagrid — A fast and flexible DataGrid for building modern web apps. Key features and virtualized…

An introduction to building live collaborative JS apps

January 17, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Protect Against Bots, Fraud, and Abuse in Real Time — With WorkOS Radar you can detect, verify and block harmful behaviour, protecting your app with advanced device fingerprinting. Stop fake signups, stop free tier abuse, and stop bot attacks and brute force attempts today. WorkOS A Checklist…

The projects that shaped JavaScript in 2024

January 10, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

🗓️ Friday is the new Thursday! If you were a JavaScript Weekly reader several years ago, you might remember it always landed on Fridays and after getting caught out by a variety of big news items landing on Thursdays in recent years, we’re back 😉__Your editor,…

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…