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JavaScript Weekly Issue 618: December 9, 2022
Dec 9, 2022 · When to Use gRPC vs GraphQL — A balanced comparison of two popular API protocols to see where each works best. Loren Sands-Ramshaw. Breakpoints and console.log is the Past, Time Travel is the Future — 15x faster JavaScript debugging than with breakpoints and console.log, now with support for Vitest. Wallaby.js sponsor.
JavaScript Weekly Issue 621: January 13, 2023
Jan 13, 2023 · top-level await is the most newly adopted feature recently. The JavaScript / TypeScript balance shows a majority of developers using TypeScript over JS. Express remains by far the most popular backend framework with Nest, Fastify, Strapi, and …
JavaScript Weekly Issue 706: September 26, 2024
Sep 26, 2024 · Many changes await: window is gone and Node’s process appears, dependency management has been improved, numerous APIs have gone stable (e.g. WebGPU), and both Node.js API and CommonJS support have continued to improve.
JavaScript Weekly Issue 709: October 17, 2024
Oct 17, 2024 · quickjs-cross-compiler provides a way to generate static binaries of JavaScript apps for x86_64, i686, ARM 7, and ARM64. RELEASES: Electron 33 – The popular way to build cross-platform desktop apps gets a bump up to Chromium 30, Node 20.18, V8 13, but drops macOS 10.15 support.
JavaScript Weekly Issue 710: October 24, 2024
Oct 24, 2024 · JavaScript Weekly. Svelte 5 is Alive — The long awaited next major release of Svelte, the compiler-driven JS UI framework, is the “most significant release in the project’s history”, while remaining largely backwards compatible.
JavaScript Weekly Issue 619: December 16, 2022
Dec 16, 2022 · ƛ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) has gained a new JavaScript backend meaning the reference Haskell compiler can now emit JavaScript and be used more easily to build front-end apps. GitHub is rolling out secrets scanning to all public repos for free.
JavaScript Weekly Issue 635: April 20, 2023
Apr 20, 2023 · JavaScript Weekly Introducing npm Package Provenance — As stewards of the official npm registry, GitHub has been keen to improve its security. As of this week, if you build npm packages through GitHub Actions, you can publish the provenance of a package which gives users a way to verify which repo a package was built from and how.
JavaScript Weekly Issue 627: February 24, 2023
Feb 24, 2023 · Understand JavaScript in the Background — Learn what happens to your JavaScript when the user closes their browser and how to detect these changes to execute code later. Plus learn the new Web Push API to give your web app new powers!