#599 — July 22, 2022
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JavaScript Weekly
RedwoodJS vs. Blitz.js: The Way forward for Fullstack Meta-Frameworks — Fairly a prolonged evaluation of each frameworks. Redwood is an opinionated React-based framework oriented closely spherical the thought of a GraphQL server because the ‘one API’ on the coronary heart of an app. Blitz, however, is a Ruby on Rails-inspired layer on prime of Subsequent.js with SPA, server facet rendering and static website technology chops. Do not forget Remix too.. it is a busy area!
Tamas Kadlecsik
Ten Widespread JavaScript Points Builders Face — In case you’ve been working with JavaScript for a few years (maybe since 2014 when this newly-updated article was first penned), these are potholes you (in all probability) already know easy methods to steer round, however there’s a lot to chew on right here in any other case.
Ryan J. Peterson
CSS Animations and Transitions — Be part of David Khourshid on this detailed video course and uncover easy methods to deliver your interfaces to life with UI animations. Find out about CSS transitions, keyframes, customized properties, choreography, animation states, and far extra
Frontend Masters sponsor
Decreasing the Dimension of a Massive JavaScript SDK Bundle by 29% — After some feedback on how massive their JavaScript bundle was getting, builders at Sentry (an app monitoring service) set to work making an attempt to get an preliminary 30% discount. Tree shaking turned out to have the most important impact.
Abhijeet Prasad (Sentry)
Payload 1.0: A Headless CMS Platform Constructed on Node — An thrilling undertaking that appeared in early 2021 with a bang then grew to become open supply simply a few months in the past. There’s quite a bit to love about Payload should you want a headless CMS together with a customizable React-based admin system, GraphQL or REST APIs, versatile auth and file add techniques, and it’s simple to get began. GitHub repo.
Payload CMS
IN BRIEF:
UPDATE / ERROR: Final week we linked to a comparability of Bun and Node.js’s efficiency however, as is commonly the case with benchmarks, there was a flaw: Node.js was being run in each instances! 😬 We await additional outcomes. Because of Craig Doremus for letting us know.
Hemanth HM presents a fast replace from the 91st TC39 assembly the place a number of language proposals have been superior.
Hermes is a JS engine constructed by Fb primarily to be used in React Native and, curiously, it was potential to misuse its quicksort implementation to run the basic FPS DOOM – a bug leading to a $12k bounty payout.
📊 A knowledge-driven try to match the recognition of React, Angular, Angular.js, Vue and Svelte. Spoiler: React sits on prime.
RELEASES:
NeutralinoJS 4.7.0 – Light-weight cross platform apps with JS & HTML.
npm-check 6.0 – Verify for outdated or unused dependencies.
Fastify 4.3 – Quick Node.js net framework.
ESLint 8.20
Angular 14.1
Vue 2.7.8
.. and extra releases at finish of this difficulty.
📒 Articles & Tutorials
Ideas on Integer Math in JavaScript — No concrete examples right here but when quick integer math is one thing you want, you may do worse than to construct upon James’ considering (to which he hopes to put in writing a extra full follow-up).
James Darpinian
JavaScript Obfuscation Methods by Instance — The Hacker Information dialogue round this text was, maybe, much more attention-grabbing, I thought.
Trickster Dev
10 npm Safety Greatest Practices
Snyk.io sponsor
JavaScript AST Manipulation with Babel: The First Steps — From the identical writer because the merchandise on obfuscation (above) comes a take a look at the fundamentals of utilizing Babel to show obfuscated code right into a syntax tree after which again into extra readable JavaScript.
Trickster Dev
▶ An Introduction to SvelteKit in 80 Minutes — Svelte is an more and more widespread approach to construct reactive frontend apps and SveltePackage gives a framework and extra full growth expertise round Svelte. Nacho offers us a tour.
Nacho Falk
▶ Blazingly Quick ‘React’ with Contemporary — One of the crucial widespread React YouTubers on the market heads Deno-side to take a look at Contemporary, a brand new islands-based net framework that doesn’t use React per se however.. shut sufficient, with Preact and JSX for rendering and templating.
Jack Herrington
2022 State of the Java Ecosystem Report — New Relic’s report is predicated on information gathered from thousands and thousands of functions offering efficiency information.
New Relic sponsor
Changing Cypress E2E Specs from JavaScript to TypeScript — Extra to it than you would possibly anticipate.
Gleb Bahmutov
🛠 Code & Instruments
Tweakpane 3.1: Compact UI Aspect for Tweaking Parameters and Viewing Worth Modifications — That is the form of factor you see in inventive coding demos very often, however could possibly be used virtually wherever. You possibly can create your personal mini pane of primary UI controls to dynamically modify (or simply replicate) values referring to one thing happening on the web page. It’s easy and appears nice, and in order for you a demo, then…
cocopon
Fireworks.js 2.0: It is Actually Fireworks for Your Net Web page — Properly, actually in a visible sense no less than 😉 The homepage is a neat demo given you may dynamically mess around with all the library’s parameters (courtesy of Tweakpane, talked about above!)
Vitalij Ryndin
Breakpoints and console.log Is the Previous, Time Journey Is the Future — 15x sooner JavaScript debugging than with breakpoints and console.log, now with help for Vitest.
Wallaby.js sponsor
Superstate: A New ‘Micro’ State Administration Library — So micro, even, that the getting began tutorial takes all of 30 seconds to learn. GitHub repo.
Guilherme Oderdenge
TanStack Desk v8: Headless UI for Constructing Tables and Datagrids — Need the onerous work of managing a desk or information grid aspect taken care of however need to hold 100% management over markup and types? That is what you want (if the thought of a ‘headless UI’ is new to you, learn this intro). Vanilla JS, React, Vue, Strong and Svelte builders are all taken care of.
Tanner Linsley
Atropos: Create Contact-Pleasant 3D Parallax Hover Results — Use with plain JS, React, or Vue and it’s simple to configure with no dependencies. The house web page contains some fairly putting examples that aren’t as excessive as you’d anticipate.
Vladimir Kharlampidi
OTHER QUICK RELEASES:
PrimeNG 14 – Suite of 80+ Angular UI elements.
Acorn 8.8 – Tiny JS parser written in pure JS.
Discord.ts 10.0 – Framework to create a Discord chat bot.
Prisma 4.1 – Fashionable ORM for Node.js and TypeScript.
MelonJS 13.0 – 2D sprite-based JS sport engine.
Safe Electron Template 20.0 – An Electron boilerplate app.
zip.js 2.6.2 – Zip and unzip information within the browser or Deno.
Octokit.js 2.0.4 – GitHub SDK for browsers, Node, and Deno.
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❓ Do you know..
… there is a totally open supply on-line MIDI editor known as Sign? Fairly enjoyable to compose with (or, in my case, simply scribble notes over).
… Smashing Journal has executed a roundup of picture compression and optimization instruments? Largely on-line, however some native ones too.
… there is a Website online that satirizes the fashionable Net looking expertise? Wonderful and dispiriting in equal measure.
… 🌆 you may create a miniature 3D ‘metropolis’ of your GitHub contributions?
… we’ve 💌 a Node.js e-newsletter too?
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