#631 — March 24, 2023
JavaScript Weekly
Rushing Up the JavaScript Ecosystem: npm Scripts — The most recent in what has been an enchanting sequence on discovering ‘low hanging fruit’ in terms of efficiency within the JavaScript world. The creator explains it finest himself:
“‘npm scripts’ are executed by JavaScript builders … on a regular basis. Regardless of their excessive utilization they don’t seem to be significantly effectively optimized and add about 400ms of overhead. On this article we have been capable of convey that all the way down to ~22ms.”
What Marvin does here’s a useful ability for all builders to select up, and you’ll take pleasure in extra by going again to the begin.
Marvin Hagemeister
Playwright v1.32 – Now with UI Mode — The favored Internet testing and automation framework is taking extra steps towards floor presently served by instruments like Cypress by providing a ‘UI mode’ that allows you to discover, run and debug exams in a UI atmosphere, full with watch mode. ▶️ This video gives a very good introduction.
Microsoft
A Grid Element with All of the Options & Nice Efficiency — Strive our highly effective JS information grid part which helps you to edit, kind, group and filter datasets with implausible efficiency. Features a TreeGrid, API docs and loads of demos. Seamless integration with React, Angular & Vue apps.
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Why We Added package deal.json Assist to Deno — Deno shares some provenance with Node.js however until just lately it hadn’t targeted on supporting Node options like npm modules. However with Node and npm compatibility starting to enhance, the workforce has confronted questions in regards to the runtime’s priorities. Ryan Dahl explains extra about their considering right here.
Ryan Dahl
📢 In different Deno information, Deno 1.32 has been launched with… improved package deal.json help, and extra.
Begin a React Venture in 2023 — There are many methods, however this well-regarded creator explains the professionals and cons of some approaches, and provides you a number of choices focusing on particular use circumstances you would possibly have.
Robin Wieruch
IN BRIEF:
GitHub needed to replace its RSA SSH host key right this moment so you might even see safety associated warnings when pushing and cloning. It is easy to repair, however test the brand new fingerprint matches – it is to your personal safety.
The New Stack caught up with Svelte’s Wealthy Harris on SvelteKit and what’s coming for Svelte 4.
The React workforce shared some innovative updates on what they’re engaged on together with React Server Elements and an optimizing compiler.
Should you have been experiencing errors on the official Node web site final week, here is the (detailed) publish mortem of why. Config errors and inappropriate caching, principally.
✨ Do you know there is a market in faux GitHub stars? Some builders analyzed some repos to be taught extra about it.
🥇 Congratulations to Lea Verou on her TC39 appointment. Her efforts to push the Internet ahead are legendary. Prism is one challenge chances are you’ll bear in mind of.
Make your opinions identified on what must be within the subsequent model of Vite.
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Puppeteer 19.8
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Neutralinojs 4.11
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📒 Articles & Tutorials
Shopping for a Laborious-to-Get Bicycle utilizing Playwright — An uncommon use case for JavaScript, Playwright, and GitHub Actions, however Maciek managed to purchase his bike.
Maciek Palmowski
Snyk Prime 10: JavaScript OSS Vulnerabilities — Dive into essentially the most prevalent crucial and excessive open supply vulnerabilities discovered by Snyk scans of JavaScript apps in 2022.
Snyk sponsor
The ‘Finish’ of Entrance-Finish Improvement? — A current narrative doing the rounds suggests that giant language fashions like GPT-4 (and even instruments like Copilot X) might quickly put some builders out of a job — nonetheless, Josh is “optimistic about what these AI developments imply for the way forward for software program growth”.
Josh W. Comeau
In associated information, Eric Elliott put ChatGPT by way of its paces to see if it could make for a very good JavaScript tutor. It did effectively — although with combined outcomes.
Migrating from ts-node to Bun — A take a look at adopting performance-oriented Bun whenever you’re used to utilizing TypeScript with Node.js. John runs us by way of porting a console app from the ts-node strategy over to Bun — “a reasonably straightforward course of,” he says.
John Reilly
▶ A Pinia Crash Course for Rookies — Pinia is a retailer / state administration answer for Vue that does imagine in pineapple on pizza.
Alexander Gekov
A Sensible Information to Getting Began with Astro — An intensive walkthrough of Astro that covers all of the subjects you’ll have to get you began.
Mojtaba Seyedi
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Automated npm Publishing with GitHub Actions and Granular Tokens
Tim Perry
Make Positive You Do This Earlier than Switching to Alerts in Angular
Jordan Powell
Six CSS Snippets Each Developer Ought to Know
Adam Argyle (Google)
🛠 Code & Instruments
hint.cafe: Simple Webperf Hint Sharing — A fast approach to share a efficiency profile saved out of your DevTools, out there for as much as 90 days with the DevTools perf panel embedded (see instance).
paul irish
VueUse: A Assortment of Vue Composition Utilities — With over 200 features focusing on each Vue 2 and three, there’ll be one thing on this suite of Composition API-based utility features for you, whether or not it’s working with state, browser capabilities, animations, Electron, Firebase, and extra.
Anthony Fu
Don’t Let Your Subject Tracker Be a 4-Letter Phrase. Use Shortcut
Shortcut (previously Clubhouse.io) sponsor
OTPAuth: One Time Password (HOTP/TOTP) Library — Once you log in to a web site that makes use of 2FA and also you’re requested for some digits from an authentication app, that’s most likely a Time-based One-Time Password (or TOTP). This library for Node, Deno, Bun and the browser enables you to work with TOTPs and HOTPs from JS.
Héctor Molinero Fernández
Recharts 2.5: Chart Library Constructed with React and D3 — Simple to deploy with declarative parts, native SVG help, and light-weight dependency on D3. Line, bar, scatter, composed, pie, and radar charts are supplied. There are a lot of examples, full with code.
recharts
DOCX 8.0: Generate Phrase .docx Recordsdata from JavaScript — The code to put out paperwork is verbose however there’s a lot of performance. Right here’s a CodePen instance and launch notes – GitHub repo.
Dolan Miu
SvHighlight: Code Syntax Highlighter for Svelte — Powered by Spotlight.js, it features a blurring characteristic to focus consideration on particular areas of code and also you an customise it with Tailwind. Strive the interactive examples to see the impact.
SvHighlight
eslint-formatter-pretty 5.0: Fairly ESLint Formatter — Nicer output than the default. Kind outcomes by severity. Get stylized inline code blocks, and extra.
Sindre Sorhus
AWS JWT Confirm: Confirm JWTs Signed by Amazon Cognito — In each Node.js and the browser.
Amazon Internet Companies
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melonJS 15.0
↳ Mature HTML5 sport engine.
Marked 4.3
↳ Markdown parser and compiler. (Demo.)
v8go 0.9
↳ Execute JavaScript from Go(lang).
Million 2.1
↳ Quick Digital DOM to make React sooner.
Partytown 0.7.6
↳ Take third-party scripts off the primary thread.
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Make Bookmarklets — Create and take a look at bookmarklets straight within the browser. Makes an irritating activity barely simpler if it is advisable do it.
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