A way to automatically generate regexes from examples

August 12, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

☀️ We’re taking a rare week off next week for a brief summer vacation so there won’t be any issue on August 19 – we’ll be back on August 26, complete with a sun tan wind burn, and all the latest JavaScript news, of course…

Native modules become ‘built-ins’

August 11, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

☀️ We’re taking a week off for a brief summer vacation and will be back on August 25, so when you don’t get an issue of Node Weekly next week, it’s our fault, not yours 😉__Peter Cooper, your editor. How To Use Multithreading in Node.js…

AWS’s sweet suite of React components.

August 10, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

☀️ Next week you won’t receive React Status – we’re taking a week off for summer vacation 🙂 We’ll be back, complete with sun tan wind burn, on August 24.__Peter Cooper and Terence C. Gannon, your editors. CSS Animations and Transitions — Join David Khourshid…

Genius misuse of WOFF 2 and Brotli to win a JavaScript contest.

August 5, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

JS1024 2022 Competition Winners — JS1024 is a ‘code golfing’ contest where you get 15 days to create a JavaScript or GLSL program within 1024 bytes. This results in lots of creative ideas, complete with fantastic (non-minified) source to check out. The winning JS entry…

A new way to query your dependencies.

August 4, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Introducing the New npm Dependency Selector Syntax — Another week, another new npm command! npm query is a new top-level command (as of npm v8.16.0) that lets you query and filter the dependencies of your project with a CSS-like dependency selector format so you can…

One dinosaur that certainly isn’t extinct.

August 3, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Docusaurus 2.0 Released — If you’ve not used Docusaurus yourself, you’ve almost certainly read sites built with it – it’s everywhere! After four years of effort, version 2.0 of the popular React-powered documentation-focused static site generator (but you could use it for other things) has…

Douglas Crockford on ‘retiring’ JavaScript

July 29, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Roll Your Own JavaScript Runtime — Bun, Rhino, Deno, Node, and now Blueboat.. is creating your own JavaScript runtime environment the new “hello world”? 😆 Not quite, but this is a fun walk through the bare basics of the process, and you’ll have a Rust,…