JavaScript Visualized: Promise Execution — A helpful diagrammed and animated article, coupled with an (optional) 8-minute video, that goes into how promises work and are scheduled behind the scenes. It’s useful to have a good mental model of these mechanics, given promises form the basis of asynchronous functions in JavaScript. Lydia Hallie |
▶ Node.js: A Documentary of Its Origin Story — It’s an hour long, but this documentary covers the history of Node particularly well, including how everything brewed up to the io.js fork of 2014. Easter weekend watching, perhaps? Honeypot |
Learn Advanced JavaScript Performance Optimization — Garbage collection, memory profiling, data structures like sets and arrays, and event loop management. Learn performance-driven programming, preparing you to write blazingly fast and efficient code! Frontend Masters |
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📒 Articles & Tutorials |
A Look at ECMAScript’s Iterator Helper Methods — The proposal is several years old, but now at stage 3 in TC39, Iterator Helpers are being implemented and ship with V8 12.2/Chrome 122. The helpers are functions like Rezvan Mahdavi Hezaveh (V8) |
Introducing Waku’s “Pages Router” — Waku is an interesting minimal server-side React framework and it’s now also bringing a minimal API to the modern React server components era: “Making a Waku site is now as simple as making a few files and folders in the Sophia Andren |
What You Need to Know About Modern CSS — A guide with a list of the newest additions to CSS (think nesting, view transitions, Chris Coyier |
Building a Micro HTMX SSR Framework — Matteo builds on an earlier tutorial about creating a ‘movie quotes’ app by exploring an alternative backend stack to use, based upon Fastify, Vite and HTMX. Matteo Collina |
🛠 Code & Tools |
Create Vue3 App: A New Vue App Scaffolding Tool — Taking inspiration from tools like Create React App, this uses Vite to help you spin up a new Vue-based app using tools based upon answers you give to a number of questions. Selemon Brahanu |
DOM3D.js: 3D DOM Viewer in a GitHub Gist — Some code you can copy and paste into your browser console to get a 3D view of the DOM, sort of.. (move your pointer to navigate the.. thing it creates). The effect is odd but fun to play with. Orion Reed |
Free Auth for 1 Million MAUs — WorkOS provides easy-to-use APIs for authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM. WorkOS |
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