Cutting JavaScript into two: trick or treat?
October 31, 2024 
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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 argued that TypeScript (now #3) made an impact here. In positive news, JS still ranks first for code pushes alone and there’s been a 15% jump in npm package consumption in the past year. GitHub |
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🎉 In other GitHub news, their Copilot AI coding tool can now use alternative LLMs like Gemini and Claude, and GitHub Spark is a new AI-powered tool for rapidly creating and deploying small apps. |
Implementing Clean Architecture in Next.js — Learn how to make projects testable and debuggable, independent of UI, framework, database, and external dependencies with the concept of Clean Architecture. Join us live on November 4th. Sentry |
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🤔 You could argue TypeScript is already that second language..? |
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📒 Articles & Tutorials |
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How We Shrunk Our JavaScript Monorepo Git Size by 94% — And by “we”, the author means Microsoft, which had an extremely large 178 gigabyte JavaScript monorepo on its hands – big enough that many employees had problems cloning it at all. Jonathan tells the full story here. Jonathan Creamer |
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HTML Form Validation is Heavily Underused — An exploration of the “powerful validation mechanisms” of HTML forms, opining that they’re underused, and proposing why that lack of utilization may be. everdimension |
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📄 Node.js, Pipes, and Disappearing Bytes – If piping a Node app’s output to another command, mysterious problems can arise.. Sam Lijin 📄 Introducing the New Svelte CLI Tool: |
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🛠 Code & Tools |
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Fraction.js: Library for Working with Rational Numbers — The imprecise representation of floating point numbers can lead to all sorts of problems, so if you’re working with fractions at all, you might want a little more precision, which Fraction.js offers. Robert Eisele |
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🔊 WebAssembly Audio Decoders — Targeting both browser and Node.js use cases, this is a collection of WASM-powered audio decoding libraries for formats like MPEG I/II/III, FLAC, Ogg Opus, Ogg FLAC, Opus, and Ogg Vorbis. Ethan Halsall |
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