The return of ECMAScript 2023 (and Angular)

#​634 — April 13, 2023

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The JavaScript Equality Desk Recreation — Minesweeper will really feel like a stroll within the park after this reminder of the horrors of JavaScript’s ==. If you must go in depth, Part 7.2.14 of the ECMAScript spec will assist, however in any other case? Stick to 3 equals (===) except you’ve got purpose not to.

Reinis Ivanovs

htmx 1.9 Launched — htmx (homepage) is an more and more widespread library exterior of the JavaScript house because it lets of us use issues like WebSockets, SSE, AJAX, and CSS transitions by marking up HTML moderately than writing a lot of JavaScript. v1.9 provides assist for view transitions and generalized inline occasion dealing with. The code examples are price a glance – htmx makes quite a bit potential, with moderately little tooling or markup wanted.

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Supercharge AWS S3 Video Streaming with ImageKit’s Video API — Get adaptive bitrate streaming, video optimizations, format conversions, and real-time transformations and watermarking by attaching ImageKit along with your AWS S3 bucket.

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The ECMAScript® 2023 Language Spec Steps Ahead — After prematurely asserting the development of the ES2023 spec in February, we will now announce: TC39 has authorized the ECMAScript 2023 spec, and whereas it stays a candidate, it’s now a step nearer to eventual ECMA Normal Meeting approval. The completed proposals checklist for 2023 now contains Array discover from final, hashbang assist, Symbols as WeakMap keys, and change Array by copy.

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IN BRIEF:

▶️ Angular is again with a vengeance, says Fireship.

Serverless platform AWS Lambda has launched response streaming on its JS runtime (for now) so you’ll be able to ship response information because it turns into out there moderately than all of sudden. (→ By way of Serverless Standing)

/[]/ A have a look at a seemingly JS-specific quirk in common expressions when empty character courses are used.

An evaluation of languages utilized in GitHub pull requests reveals JavaScript/TypeScript main the best way with Python simply barely behind. The feedback went in a lot of odd instructions right here.

Seven of us at Vue Amsterdam 2023 shared their ▶️ recommendations on getting began with Vue.js.

▶️ An hour-long chat on the State of Node.js with some main figures.

Node v18.16.0 (LTS) has been launched with backported assist for compiling JavaScript code right into a single executable app. Node 19’s Ada URL parser additionally seems.

A hanging visible introduction to React and its basic ideas.

RELEASES:

Node.js v19.9 (Present)

Puppeteer v19.9 – It is the week for nearly 20s.

pnpm 8.2 – Environment friendly npm different.

Redwood 4.5 – Widespread app framework.

Storybook 7.0 – With an official launch submit this time.

📒 Articles & Tutorials

Ranger: Use a Vary-Like Syntax for Something? — const numbers = 1[[…8]], anybody? This can be a neat trick for a little bit of syntatic sugar, however I’m undecided it could cross the sniff check for many groups. You may discover the implementation attention-grabbing to take a look at although. Lengthy could this form of experimentation proceed.

Jon Randy

💡 A proposal for JavaScript to get built-in vary assist is at stage 2.

📅  Construct and Deploy ‘23: Could third – Save the Date! — The final word CI/CD digital convention – greatest practices and end-user success tales from DevOps consultants. Plus, a keynote from Emily Freeman, writer of DevOps for Dummies.

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Attempting Node’s Constructed-In Check Runner — In 2022, Node gained an experimental built-in check runner (node:check). It’s going to change into steady within the forthcoming Node v20, so it’s time to have a look at the way it works and the way it compares to different options you may already be utilizing.

Gleb Bahmutov

▶  The Proper Method To Merge JavaScript Objects — In only one minute, too.

Jack Herrington

Ref vs. Reactive: What to Select When Utilizing Vue 3 Composition API?

Michael Hoffmann

The best way to Stream File Uploads to S3 Object Storage from Node.js

Austin Gil

The best way to Contribute to a Undertaking You Have No Concept About

Michal Warda

🛠 Code & Instruments

Reveal.js 4.5: An HTML Presentation Framework — Brings elegant shows to anybody with a Net browser. v4.5 was simply launched with assist for leaping to particular slides, a number of new themes, and with stay reload working with information in subfolders.

Hakim El Hattab

Record.js: Add Search, Kind, Filters, and Extra to Tables and Lists — A helpful library for including search, type, filters and adaptability to tables, lists or different HTML components. Need an instance? Why, of course.

Jonny Strömberg

🦘Quokka.js – #1 JavaScript Scratchpad for VS Code — With 2M+ downloads, Quokka.js is the #1 device for exploring and testing JavaScript/TypeScript. Code runs instantly as you kind.

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Queue: Async Perform Queue with Adjustable Concurrency — Exports a category Queue that implements many of the Array API.

Jesse Tane

But One other React Lightbox — Add a lightbox part to your tasks “in minutes” – there are a number of examples to strive, in addition to a playground with adjustable settings. GitHub repo.

Igor Danchenko

Sandpack 2.6: Element Toolkit for Creating Dwell Code Enhancing Experiences — Created by the oldsters at CodeSandbox, so that they absolutely know what they’re doing on this house. GitHub repo.

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Simple to Use, Full-Stack Utility Monitoring

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TS Author: A Template String Template Engine for Producing Code at Runtime — Reasonably area of interest, however geared toward conditions the place you may must generate code at runtime in TypeScript.

tinylibs

Minimatch 9.0
↳ Glob matcher library.
     minimatch(“bar.foo”, “*.foo”)

hls.js 1.4
↳ Play HLS in browsers with assist for MSE.

Partytown 0.8
↳ Relocate third-party scripts off the primary thread.

Plasmo 0.68
↳ “It is like Subsequent.js for browser extensions”

Obsidian 8.0 – GraphQL, constructed for Deno.

MUI X 6.1 – React part suite.

TestCafe 2.5 – Automate end-to-end internet testing.

Maquette 3.6 – Light-weight digital DOM library.

Venom 5.0 – WhatsApp bot library.

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