😆 If this were an episode of Friends, it would be called something like “The One With All The Big Releases” — enjoy! __ Peter Cooper, editor
JavaScript Weekly
jQuery 3.6.0 Released — I’m always delighted to share jQuery news for a few reasons. First, it’s one of the best JavaScript nostalgia trips we still have. Second, jQuery is still so heavily used whether in CMSes or even by developers who simply continue to appreciate it. The updates are minor here, but we’re promised a jQuery 4.0 is on the way.
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Gatsby 3.0 Released — Gatsby is a React-based open source framework with performance, scalability and security built-in. v3.0 promises an 80% speed improvement to the local development experience. They’ve also introduced Gatsby Hosting.
Hashim Warren (Gatsby)
Electron 12.0.0 Released — Despite some compelling alternatives like Neutralino and Tauri, Electron remains the big cheese in the ‘build desktop apps with JavaScript’ game. v12 updates from Node 12 to 14 (hello V8 8.9!) and to Chromium 89.
Vue Mastery have opened up free access to their Vue 3 + TypeScript course till March 9 (next Tuesday).
RedMonk is a top developer analyst firm and their latest programming language rankings report is fantastic news for JavaScript (which is the #1 language) and TypeScript (now at 8th).
Deno 1.8 has landed with experimental support for WebGPU, making doing GPU-based computation from JavaScript even easier.
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📖 Articles, Opinion & Tutorials
▶ How to Build a Space Invaders Clone in JavaScript — Ania set herself a fun challenge to try and code up Space Invaders as quickly as possible while explaining what she’s doing at the same time. It’s fun to follow her thought process.
Ania Kubów
Building a Discord Bot Using Discord.js — Node is ideal for building chat bots and here’s a complete walkthrough of using the Discord.js library to do this on the Discord chat system to create a joke posting bot.
Swiper: A Modern Mobile Touch Slider — Complete with hardware accelerated transitions and native-like behavior. There are integrations with React, Svelte, Vue.js and Angular, too.
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