Three projects for you to explore, all on different spectrums, but doing something radical or peculiar. Happy weekend.

Project: Blockdom

blockdom is a fast virtual DOM library. Its main selling point is that it does not work at the granularity of a single HTML element, but instead it works with blocks: HTML elements, with arbitrary content.

Three projects for you to explore, all on different spectrums, but doing something radical or peculiar. Happy weekend.

Project: Lemonade.js

Lemonadejs is a lightweight reactive micro-library, written in vanilla JavaScript with support for two-way binding. It can help you to deliver reusable components and does not require transpilers, babel or other dependencies to work. Perfect for widgets and tiny interactive forms.

A new peeky way to test your apps, a wonderful article about iterables and the latest news from the Vue world

Project: Peeky- A test framework for the curious minds

A few good articles, a tiny new JS runtime and a win for VueJS

Article: How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs

I got a library for you, also a really nice course of establishing mental models, and a gentle introduction to web components for you. Happy weekend!

Library: Dinero.js

Dinero.js lets you express monetary values in JavaScript. You can perform mutations, conversions, comparisons, format them extensively, and overall make money manipulation in your application easier and safer.

This weekend let’s talk about CSVs, exporting modules and the abomination that npm audit is.

Library: lil-csv

Launches, reading, low-key this has been an exciting week for the eco-system

Article: In JS functions, the ‘last’ return wins

Fascinating read on how return statements work in JS, a neat little gotcha about that you may not have a practical use for, but it’s interesting to know nonetheless

Heya, today we read about performance, a sweet addition to your blogs and websites and things new to ES 2021

Article: Benchmarking JavaScript Memory Usage

Written by for WebPageTest, this article is an insightful read on how to benchmark your app, memory usage across frameworks, metrics from around the web and a lot more. A great read for sure

Happy weekend, here are the top 3 stories from this week.

Launch: Astro

Astro is a new kind of static site builder that delivers lightning-fast performance with a modern developer experience. It lets you bring your own framework and renders your entire page to static HTML, removing all JavaScript from your final build by default.

Happy weekend, here are the top 3 stories from this week.

Article: Tree-Shaking: A Reference Guide

Dealing with modern frontend development, you definitely must’ve stumbled upon the term . Here’s a deep dive on how tree-shaking works and how specs and practice work together to make bundles leaner.

Here’s another weekend, here’s a few good reads for you.

Release: Parcel 2 is 10x Faster

The parcel team released their third beta with a ground up rewrite of our JavaScript compiler in Rust, which improves overall build performance by up to 10x when minification is disabled.

Heya, been a while I sent one of these. Here’s some interesting JS stories to follow this weekend.

Article: Dependency Managers Don’t Manage Your Dependencies

If you have anything to do with modern front end development, you are most likely managing a host of dependencies for your apps. Here’s the first part of the JS infrastructure blog series by , explaining how we can take better decisions regarding these dependencies in our projects and enable long-term maintainability. It’s an interesting read, highly recommended

An issue after long, I run TinyJS just for the joy of it and sometimes personal and professional priorities take precedence. Haven’t been doing a lot of reading lately, but now that I have continued here’s another edition for you, top 3 stories for the JS world.

Project: svelte-nodegui

is a library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with Node.js and CSS which supported React and Vue for sometime now. Recently they released Svelte renderer for it.

A lot of reading for you this weekend, enjoy these reads from this week.

Article: undefined vs. null revisited

Trends in the ecosystem and a few projects, here are three stories worth your time

State of JS 2020

The report of the State of JS 2020 report is here, check this out to see new trends emerging and a few existing trends strengthening in the JS ecosystem.

Interesting articles and a place to find tiny javascript utilities, here’s three interesting pieces from the internet.

Article: Yes, vanilla JS does scale

Chris Ferdinandi, a long time vanilla JS advocate, writes an article contrary to popular opinion on scaling vanilla javascript. Regardless of where you are in the debate, this is an interesting read.

It’s holiday season, here is a quick catchup on the big stories from the JS world

Release: Volta 1.0

Volta’s job is to manage your JavaScript command-line tools, such as node, npm, yarn, or executables shipped as part of JavaScript packages. With its 1.0 release, Volta is ready for general use in projects of all sizes.

Happy weekend, just libraries this week.

ganja.js

Ganja.js is a Geometric Algebra code generator for JavaScript

Happy weekend, here are the top 3 reads from this week.

Article: Deep dive into Rome

Rome is a JavaScript toolchain created with the promise of unifying the frontend development. If you’ve been in the ecosystem for a while, you know how pertinent this problem space is. Here’s a great primer on what Rome is and what’s to come.

Happy weekend, here are the top 3 stories from this week.

Survey: State of JS 2020

State of JS 2020 is now live, an annual survey that for the past four years has been providing insights on the larger trends of the ecosystem by collecting data from over 20,000 developers

Just articles this time, happy weekend with the top 3 reads of this week.

Article: The case for Weak Dependencies in JS

If you’re using ES modules and want to check if one is present before using it in some optional way, what do you do? Lea explains why this would be useful and shares some ideas with how it could be implemented.

AngularJS 11, Babylon.js and a weekend read. Here’s what’s happening in the JavaScript world this week

Release: Version 11 of AngularJS is here

Version 11.0.0 is here, and it claims to have some great updates. Experimental webpack 5 support, faster builds, improved hot module replacement support, and more.

Future of Svelte, about math and time-zones on the frontend, here are a few interesting reads from this week.

Article: What’s the deal with SvelteKit?

Rich Harris, writes about the future of Svelte, the tooling and what’s happening with Sapper

Next.js 10, and a few good reads. Here’s some JavaScript stories for you.

Release: Next.js 10

Next.js 10 is here! Next.js gains a new built-in image component and image optimization, Analytics as well as Next.js Commerce along with many other improvements

A new way to discover JavaScript packages and two major releases, here are the top stories of this week.

Launch: Skypack Discover

Skypack discover is here to solve the discovery problem of JavaScript packages, a better alternative to jumping between npmjs, bundlephobia, Stack Overflow and more.

In your inbox today, grids, a really nimble alternative to ElectronJS, and should you be using public CDNs?

Library: Grid.js

Grid.js is a HTML table plugin written in TypeScript. It is simple and lightweight, works with most JavaScript frameworks out there.

It’s just articles this week, a story from Dropbox, about streaming HTML and a gentle introduction to WebAssembly

Article: jQuery to React at Dropbox

How Dropbox rewrote HelloSign, their web-based eSignature solution from jQuery to React

Chrome’s recent vision deficiencies emulation, and two awesome libraries, here are 3 awesome stories from the JavaScript World

Article: Emulate vision deficiencies in Chrome DevTools

Emulate vision deficiencies in Chrome DevTools to see how users who experience color blindness or blurred vision might see your site

Stories about ES2021, a nifty new library and Firefox getting faster, here are the top three stories of this week.

Blog: Feature Watch: ECMAScript 2021

From the ongoing TC39, this blog post tracks actual and potential features of ES2021.

An exciting week with major announcements and releases, here are the top 3 stories from this week.

Announcement: Moment.js Project Status

An interesting talk, the fastest memoization library for JS and decorators coming to JavaScript, here are the top 3 stories from this week.

Video: You Really Don’t Need All That JavaScript

In this talk from GOTO Chicago 2020. Stuart Langridge talks about frameworks and why we don’t need them every time. You don’t have to dump your Vue project after listening to this, but it will definitely give you a new purview of things.

TinyJS #3

A few good reads about front-end frameworks, performance and software quality, here are the top 3 stories of this week.

Article: React is becoming a black box

TinyJS #2

A super cool library to give your typography some jazz and a few good reads, here are the top 3 stories of this week.

Launch: ztext.js

TinyJS #1

A new development toolchain and some releases, here are the top 3 stories of this week.

Launch: Rome Frontend Toolchain