What’s new for us in ECMAScript 2024
July 25, 2024 
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Astro 4.12: Say Hello to Server Islands — The flexible Astro framework for building modern content-based sites continues to go from strength to strength. v4.12 includes a new concept of server islands, a way to integrate static HTML and server-side generated components together. Erika and Phillips (Astro) |
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What’s New for JavaScript Developers in ECMAScript 2024 — High level analysis of developments in the ECMAScript spec, with insights from Ecma vice president Daniel Ehrenberg, TC39 co-chair Rob Palmer, and developer Ashley Claymore. A good, thorough roundup of the state of play. Mary Branscombe (The New Stack) |
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💡 If you want to go a step further with what’s coming up next, Igalia presents a summary of the recent TC39 meeting in Helsinki with which language proposals were advanced and discussed. |
Level Up Your Next.js Skills — Join Scott Moss for this detailed video course on intermediate Next.js. Learn how to build production-ready apps by diving into concepts such as server actions, data fetching, protected routes, form authentication, performance caching, and more. Frontend Masters |
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📒 Articles & Tutorials |
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So You Think You Know Box Shadows? — The author indulges his creative side with some fun experiments into what he calls “some of the worst possible things” you can do with box shadows on a DIV element, coupled with JavaScript. David Gerrells |
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▶ Don’t Use JS for That: Moving Features to CSS and HTML — Packed with code and examples. Some techniques aren’t universally supported yet, but there’s a lot that the browser can offer that you don’t need to reimplement yourself, like color picking, modals, and animations. Kilian Valkhof |
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How to Choose the Best Rendering Strategy for Your App — The differences between Static Site Generation (SSG), Server-Side Rendering (SSR), Client-Side Rendering (CSR), Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR), and Partial Prerendering (PPR). Alice Alexandra Moore (Vercel) |
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A Practical Guide to Not Blocking the Event Loop — A look at the core principles of synchronous and asynchronous work in a single-threaded environment, stressing the importance of non-blocking code for efficient event loop utilization. Slava Knyazev |
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🛠 Code & Tools |
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Git Granary: A Personal Git LFS Server — A Deno-powered (but can run under Bun and Node) Git Large File Storage (LFS) server implementation written in TypeScript for self-hosted personal use cases. David Bushell |
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