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#692 — June 13, 2024Read on the Web📝 I've recently encountered readers who've been surprised to learn this isn't our only JavaScript newsletter. We have Node Weekly and React Status too – check them...
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#693 — June 20, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThe Results of the State of JavaScript 2023 Survey— It feels odd including something about 2023 in June 2024, but the results of the major annual...
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#694 — June 27, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyA Look at JavaScript's New Set Methods— Finding the intersection, union, and difference between sets, among other set-related tasks, is now a piece...
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#695 — July 4, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyHow to Annul Promises in JavaScript— You can 'cancel' XHR and fetch requests, but can you cancel regular promises? Currently, no, but Zachary looks...
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#696 — July 11, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript Weeklyes-toolkit: A Modern JavaScript Utility Library— Think Lodash but newer, faster, smaller, and with tree shaking and built-in TypeScript support. The...
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#697 — July 18, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyExploring JS: JavaScript Books for Programmers— You’ll know Dr. Axel from his fantastic blog posts over the years, or his once tenure as JavaScript...
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#698 — July 25, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyAstro 4.12: Say Hello to Server Islands— The flexible Astro framework for building modern content-based sites continues to go from strength to...
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#699 — August 1, 2024Read on the Web🏖️ Hi! Just a quick note to say that we're taking next week off for a brief summer break. We'll be back with our next issue on August 15.__Peter Cooper, your...
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#700 — August 15, 2024Read on the Web👋 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.. ;-)__Peter Cooper,...
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#701 — August 22, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyRegexes Got Good: The History (and Future) of Regular Expressions in JavaScript— Regular expression support was always a little underwhelming in...
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#702 — August 29, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyRspack 1.0: The Rust-Powered JavaScript Bundler— Far from being ‘yet another bundler’ with its own approach and terminology to learn, Rspack...
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#703 — September 5, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyAn SSR Performance Showdown— Fastify’s Matteo Collina set out to find the current state of server-side rendering performance across today’s most...
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#704 — September 12, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThe State of ES5 on the Web— Some of the earlier JavaScript build tools focused on allowing developers to write modern JavaScript code that...
View ArticleHey, how many C's are there in JavaScript?
#705 — September 19, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript™? Weekly'Oracle, It’s Time to Free JavaScript.'— It’s long been a bone of contention that Oracle owns the trademark for ‘JavaScript’ (we put out a...
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#706 — September 26, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyDeno 2.0 Release Candidate— Deno started life as a manifestation of ideas that Node’s original creator, Ryan Dahl, had after his experiences...
View ArticleEvan You's next big adventure
#707 — October 3, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyVoidZero: A Next-Generation Toolchain for JavaScript— Not content to have merely created Vue.js and Vite, JavaScript powerhouse Evan You has...
View ArticleA huge week for ECMAScript proposals
#708 — October 10, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyTC39 Advances 10+ ECMAScript Proposals— The architects behind the development of the ECMAScript / JavaScript spec got together again this week...
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#709 — October 17, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThe Story of Web Framework Hono, By Its Creator— Hono is a neat, lightweight framework designed to run on any JavaScript runtime that has been...
View ArticleA huge week for both Svelte and Next.js
#710 — October 24, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklySvelte 5 is Alive— The long awaited next major release of Svelte, the compiler-driven JS UI framework, is the “most significant release in the...
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#711 — October 31, 2024Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyPython Jumps to #1 on GitHub Over JavaScript, But...— GitHub Universe took place this week, flooding us with data about how folks are using the...
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