The npm tea party

August 15, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

πŸ‘‹ Wow, issue 700! We’re back after a week away. Technically I’m still on vacation, but I didn’t want to leave you in the lurch for too long.. πŸ˜‰
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Peter Cooper, your editor

ECMAScript Safe Assignment Operator Proposal β€” We often feature ECMAScript proposals that are in their later stages, but how about a brand new one you could get involved with? This one proposes an interesting additional bit of language syntax (?=) that returns a [error, value] tuple from an assignment.

Arthur Fiorette

WorkOS: The Modern Identity Platform for B2B SaaS β€” WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, offering flexible and easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and RBAC in minutes instead of months. It’s trusted by hundreds of high-growth startups such as Perplexity, Vercel, Drata, and Webflow.

WorkOS

Google’s Angular Lead Sees Convergence in JavaScript Frameworks β€” β€œWhen picking a framework, don’t overthink it. It will end up being the same technology anyway with a different facade.” Minko Gechev talks about leading the way in converging Google’s Angular and Wiz frameworks.

Loraine Lawson (The New Stack)

πŸ“’ Articles & Tutorials

Patterns for Memory Efficient DOM Manipulation β€” Marc shares a solid look at the best practices to employ in order to avoid excess memory usage when managing/updating the DOM, all with a hope to make your apps faster. A good overview of the core principles behind DOM manipulation and optimization.

Marc Grabanski

Learn Web Components β€” If you’re looking to scrub on your Web Components know-how, this road map should prove useful. It’s a collection of good third party articles covering a wide range of knowledge.

Andrico Karoulla

πŸ“„ Tips for Using React Testing Library to Write Unit Tests Pavan Policherla

πŸ“„ 45 VS Code Shortcuts for Boosting Your Productivity Shahed Nasser

πŸ›  Code & Tools