12 Useful JavaScript Data Grid Libraries — A rundown of some data grid libraries for providing spreadsheet-esque views over datasets – Zara also shares her recommendations on things to consider when making a choice. Zara Cooper IN BRIEF: DEBUGGING TIP: David Walsh shows off Chrome’s rather…
If you missed my note two weeks ago, we took last week off, so you didn’t miss any issues 🙂 We’re now back every week until Christmas (121 sleeps to go..)__Peter Cooper, your editor. When Alternative JS Runtimes Grow Up: Deno Has Big Changes Ahead,…
☀️ 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…
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…
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,…
RedwoodJS vs. Blitz.js: The Future of Fullstack Meta-Frameworks — Quite a lengthy review of both frameworks. Redwood is an opinionated React-based framework oriented heavily round the idea of a GraphQL server as the ‘one API’ at the heart of an app. Blitz, on the other…
CKEditor 5 Is Here to Make Collaborative Writing Easy — A customizable rich text editor that allows you to build collaboration within your application in hours. Ready-to-use features like comments, track changes, real-time collaboration, version history and many more. Start your free trial to implement it now.…
Bun: An Exciting, Speedy New JavaScript Runtime — Tired of Node? Tired of Deno? Never. But a new challenger has appeared. Bun is aimed at ‘outside of browser’ use cases and is built around WebKit’s JavaScriptCore, rather than V8. Some notable features: Includes its own…
🤯 Things looked quiet at first, but this has turned out to be a pretty strong week in terms of releases and things – we’ve even had to push a new Vue release and a new Deno webapp framework to the bottom of the issue!…
❓ If you’re unfamiliar with ECMAScript as a term, it’s the name of the generic, standardized language behind JavaScript implementations, as JavaScript is technically a trademark of the Oracle Corporation. Longer explanation. New Course on Web Components — “Web Components are one of the most…