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Hey, how many C’s are there in JavaScript?

September 19, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

‘Oracle, It’s Time to Free JavaScript.’ — It’s long been a bone of contention that Oracle owns the trademark for ‘JavaScript’ (we put out a call two years ago) but this marks the first serious effort to try and change that, including petitioning the USPTO, if necessary. You can support the effort by signing this open letter, joining a vast array of JavaScript luminaries.

The JavaScript Community

😅 Bun’s creator said this is “an unplanned feature I worked on mostly a month ago on a Saturday for fun” – that’s our kinda fun!

ts-blank-space: Fast Type-Stripping TypeScript to JS Compiler — It’s job is simple: be the fastest TS to JS compiler written in JS (it’s 5.6x faster than tsc.) Types are simply replaced with whitespace preserving the coordinates of the JS code which eliminates the need for sourcemaps entirely.

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RELEASES:

  • Fastify v5 – Fastify is a popular, perf-focused web framework for Node.js, inspired by Express (which recently reached v5.0 too!)

  • Astro 5 Beta – Astro helps keep the run of v5.0 releases going..

  • Node.js v22.9 (Current) – Adds a util.getCallSite function to obtain the stacktrace of the current execution. V8’s Maglev JIT is also disabled for reliability reasons due to outstanding issues in V8.

  • Hono 4.6 – The nifty ‘any runtime’ webapp framework gains context storage middleware.

ViteConf is October 3rd! — StackBlitz is r(ai)sing the bar in the ViteConf ’24 keynote. You won’t want to miss it 👀.

StackBlitz

📒 Articles & Tutorials

A React 19 Cheat Sheet — From Kent C Dodds, of Epic React fame, comes this part cheat sheet, part succinct reminder of some of the new things you can do in React 19, along with (very) brief code examples.

Kent C. Dodds

🛠 Code & Tools

ts-remove-unused: Remove Unused Code from TypeScript Projects — A tool that can auto-fix unused exports (removing export from the declaration or the whole declaration based on its usage) and delete modules that have no referenced exports. Knip is another mature tool in this space, though focused more on detecting the things you can remove.

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