Learn the Fundamentals of Rx.js — This useful JavaScript library is great for managing events that happen over time, and in this detailed video course Steve Kinney covers what you need to know to make use of it — including observables, events, intervals, timers, operators,…
Express.js 5.0 Now in Beta — Considering that the first alpha of 5.0 was over seven years ago, this is a big step for the still wildly popular and influential Node.js Web app library. There’s also thorough docs of the 5.x API here. Requiring Node.js 4…
🥊 Move Over JavaScript? How Some Backend Languages are Coming to the Front-End — You might think this is about using WebAssembly to run Python in the browser or something, but no. It’s about the growing popularity of maintaining a WebSocket connection to a backend…
Writing a Printer Driver in JavaScript — “Writing a printer driver in JavaScript sounds ridiculous,” starts the author, and while the definition of ‘driver’ is arguable here (it’s more a filter?), this is nonetheless an interesting story and solution to the author’s problem. Dan Pastusek Babel…
Take the State of JavaScript 2022 Survey — Now several years in, the popular State of JavaScript survey returns for a joint 2021/22 run and, as ever, seeks to establish what libraries and frameworks developers are excited about. It’s not a perfect approach, but the…
⁉️ If the subject of this issue has got you confused, it’s a reference to the infamous Wat video of 2012 which we mention a couple of times in the issue today 🙂__Peter Cooper, your editor TypeScript Features to Avoid? — Remember Gary Bernardt’s Wat…
Retool Is the Fast Way to Build Internal Tools — Visually design apps that interface with any database or API. Switch to code nearly anywhere to customize how your apps look and work. With Retool, you ship more apps and move your business forward—all in…
2021’s JavaScript Rising Stars — Back for the 6th year running is this popular look at JavaScript projects that have continued to be popular on GitHub. Stars aren’t the only way to determine what projects are good, but it’s one way, and we tend to…
The Best of JavaScript Weekly in 2021 This is the last issue of the year (we’re back on January 7, 2022) so we’re taking a look back at some of the most popular items of 2021, starting with top links overall before moving on to top…
Deep-Copying in JavaScript Using structuredClone — Ever had to resort to workarounds and libraries to create a deep copy of a value? structuredClone() to the rescue as a built-in function for deep-copying. Surma shows it off in this post, but note that support is currently…