#605 — September 9, 2022
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Ryan Dahl Asks Oracle to Launch the ‘JavaScript’ Trademark — It is in our small print, however do you know Oracle owns the ‘JavaScript’ trademark? For this reason the usual is named ECMAScript as a substitute. It’s all right down to Netscape’s cope with Solar Microsystems, which Oracle later acquired, and is infamously poorly defended (Brendan Eich steered a few years in the past that he’s unsure it might be defended.) So when you’ve obtained Larry Ellison’s cellphone quantity, see if he’ll do us all a stable 🙏
Ryan Dahl
Make the Most of Testing in CI with Cypress Dashboard — Cypress Dashboard accelerates and optimizes each aspect of your testing. Push your code with confidence, each time.
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An Overview of Node.js’s Structure, Occasion Loop, and Concurrency — Our favourite JavaScript-wielding physician is writing a brand new ebook (“Writing cross-platform shell scripts with Node.js”) and we get to benefit from the byproducts of his labor together with this succinct, however extremely technical, overview of Node’s basic elements.
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
Introducing Indicators: A Reactive State Primitive That is Quick By Default — Indicators present a reactive manner of expressing state (in a really pure manner that seems like utilizing plain values) such that apps keep quick no matter complexity. It’s geared toward Preact, the slimmer various to React, however is feasible to make use of with common React by means of monkeypatching.
Preact Crew
IN BRIEF:
React Native 0.70 has been launched and Hermes turns into the default JavaScript engine, amongst different issues.
A timeline of JavaScript’s historical past from 1994 to now.
📆 Subsequent.js Conf 2022 is happening this October – it is on-line and no value to enroll. Subsequent.js additionally has a brand new emblem.
RELEASES:
Node.js v18.9.0 – A really minor launch.
Subsequent.js 12.3 – Standard React framework.
Jasmine 4.4
↳ Easy testing framework for browsers and Node.
Ember.js 4.7 – Lengthy standing framework.
sql.js 1.8
↳ SQLite compiled to JavaScript.
React Calendar 3.8
↳ Calendar element for React apps.
Contemporary 1.1
↳ Deno’s full stack Net framework.
📒 Articles & Tutorials
Porting Checks from Cypress to Playwright with AI — If switching libraries on your integration checks sounds boring however essential, possibly AI might take away among the pressure? Gajus gave it a go together with reasonable success – a enjoyable story.
Gajus Kuizinas
The Temporal API: A New Strategy to Managing Date and Time? — We’ve talked about this a couple of occasions over time (Dr. Axel wrote this thorough information in 2021) nevertheless it continues to merely be ‘in growth’ with no widespread help but. There is a polyfill, although, and it truly is a helpful API, so that you would possibly need to brush up on it.
Muhammed Arslan Sarwar
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Buildkite sponsor
▶ Creating F1 Fashion Graphics with Remotion — Followers of System 1 might keep in mind the stinger transition from the 2021 season. The creator of Remotion—a library that may generate video from code—walks via its recreation in what can solely be described as document lap time.
Jonny Berger
Methods to Construct a Canvas-Based mostly Drawing Software
↳ An intensive, and now full, 4 half sequence.
“How I migrated a Rails app from Webpack to esbuild”
↳ An app with over 300k strains of JS, too.
Deploying a Node app to Fly.io
↳ Considered one of our favourite ‘challenger’ internet hosting platforms proper now.
TIL You Can Entry a Person’s Digicam with Simply HTML
↳ Browser help moderately restricted although.
“Switching iterator helpers to capabilities”
↳ Slidedeck for a chat Dr. Axel Rauschmayer is giving at TC39 subsequent week.
🛠 Code & Instruments
🔍 GradeJS: Scan Manufacturing Webpack Bundles for Modules Used Inside — Even when you don’t have entry to the unique supply for a site, this device can try to work out what npm packages had been used even with minified or tree-shaken bundles (if webpack 3-5 was used).
Konstantin Darutkin
El: A Tiny Net Element-Based mostly UI Framework — The very definition of brief and candy. You get lots in 150 strains, together with a built-in observable retailer and reactive templates with one-way binding. Suppose a really light-weight React/Vue blended with Lit. Right here’s a one file instance of making a todo-list app on prime of it.
Frameable
Spend Extra Time Rising Your App and Depart the Relaxation to Stream — Why spend months constructing in-app messaging or exercise feeds from scratch when you may rapidly combine these essential functionalities with Stream’s APIs and developer-friendly SDKs.
Stream sponsor
📪 ZIPMonster: US ZIP Code Information and Capabilities — Brings the US postal code system all into one library which allows you to do all method of queries, together with navigating throughout all the US, if you want.
Igor M.
Shumani: Quick Machine Studying Library utilizing Bun + Flashlight — Attention-grabbing to see Fb’s analysis arm utilizing Bun – very early days for this experimental mission.
Meta Analysis
JSON Hero: A Stunning JSON Viewer — Paste in some JSON or enter a URL to a JSON file and this device supplies a clear and delightful UI full of options.
API Hero
Don’t Let Your Challenge Tracker Be a 4-Letter Phrase. Use Shortcut
Shortcut (previously Clubhouse.io) sponsor
DgrmJS: A Library for Creating SVG Diagrams — Notably for circulation/course of diagrams.
Alexey Boyko
⚡️ OTHER QUICK RELEASES:
size-limit 8.1 — Efficiency funds device.
Serverless Offline 10.0
↳ Emulate AWS Lambda and API Gateway regionally.
react-cytoscapejs 2.0
↳ React element for community visualizations.
Discordeno 14.0
↳ Discord API library for Deno.
HotKeys 3.10
↳ Lengthy-standing low footprint enter seize.
Binary Parser 2.2
↳ Write quick binary knowledge parsers declaratively.
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