The future JavaScript features at TC39
August 26, 2022|
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..) |
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When Alternative JS Runtimes Grow Up: Deno Has Big Changes Ahead, and the Creator of Bun Forms Oven Two distinct stories that we felt deserved to be together as they provide a little look at the development of alternative server-side JavaScript runtimes that aren’t Node.js and are both going after overlapping markets. Deno’s big news is that they’re working hard on npm compatibility and Deno will be able to use most npm modules soon (Deno 1.25 has been released with a preview). Meanwhile, Jarred Sumner, the creator of Bun, has answered our pun prayers and formed Oven, a company to support Bun’s development, and already raised $7m for it. The heat is, most certainly, on. → deno.com/blog/changes DENO AND OVEN |
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▶ On the Future Features of JS — Hemanth is a TC39 delegate and hosts the popular TC39er podcast. In this 25-minute talk, he flies through a variety of current language proposals, their progress, and why they matter. Hemanth HM |
Take a Tour of JavaScript & React Patterns — Join Lydia Hallie for the video course covering design patterns you can use to improve the code architecture of your web apps. Learn traditional JavaScript design patterns, React patterns, performance, and reading patterns. Frontend Masters |
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TypeScript 4.8 Released — The typed superset of JavaScript continues to remain popular. 4.8 is more a minor evolution than a revolution, but makes improvements to inference, correctness and consistency, file watching, and serious speedups on rebuilds. Daniel Rosenwasser (Microsoft) |
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IN BRIEF:
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RELEASES: Solid 1.5 – Declarative and flexible JS UI library. |
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đź“’ Articles & Tutorials |
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Understanding When and Why React Re-Renders — The processes around rendering are important to understand if you want to get the best performance possible from your React apps, so learn why and when React re-renders in the first place. Josh W. Comeau |
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(Re-)Introducing Gatsby as a ‘Reactive Site Generator’? — Gatsby’s new focus is on enabling teams to deploy content rapidly with a new architecture that they say allows Gatsby Cloud to publish to its CDN in under a second. This post benchmarks Gatsby’s “Reactive Site Generation” (RSG) approach against most traditional approaches. Kyle Mathews |
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đź› Code & Tools |
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Node v16.17.0 (LTS) Released — A useful LTS release with a couple of modern backported features – this time, 16.x users gain access to the Michaël Zasso |
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OTHER QUICK RELEASES: Focus Trap 7.0 – Trap the focus within a DOM node (e.g. a modal). |
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🥳 A Quick Bit of Fun |
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| Head straight back to the 90s / early 00s and enjoy some retro Web cursor effects. Next up: custom scrollbars, 10px Tahoma, and scrolling frames everywhere. |
