~javascriptweekly | Issue 690 - A variety of JS hacks and creative coding (16)

How 1Password Used esbuild to Cut Browser Extension Build Times — 1Password is a popular password management tool that relies upon a browser extension to fill out passwords on the Web. At over a minute for a single build, things were starting to drag for the devs. Could esbuild help? A fun story with plenty of technical details.

Next.js 15 Release Candidate — The popular React meta framework gets ready for a major new release with a RC giving you an opportunity to experiment with React 19 (and React Compiler) support, executing code after a response with next/after, and a few potentially breaking changes.

Everything You Need to Know About Git — Join ThePrimeagen for this extensive video course and ensure you never run into an unsolvable Git problem again. You'll learn advanced git abilities like interactive rebasing, bisecting, worktrees, the reflog, and more.

aem1k: A Variety of JS Hacks and Creative Coding — This is a fun one. Martin really captures the joy and expressiveness of JavaScript and the Web with his collection of projects, whether it’s offering a NSFW-named tool to convert your JavaScript into just six characters, rendering a spinning globe in 1KB of JS, the Game of Life in 176 bytes, and many more...

10 Modern Node.js Runtime Features to Start Using in 2024 — If it ever feels like the new feature spotlight shines too much on Bun or Deno, never fear - Node.js has been taking huge strides forward too. Liran looks at lots of what’s new.

ECMAScript 2023 Feature: Symbols as WeakMap keys — Dr. Axel continues his look at language features by explaining what WeakMaps are for and why using symbols for keys has added benefits.

Introducing a New Fullstack TypeScript DX from AWS — Build every part of your app’s cloud backend with TypeScript: auth? TypeScript. Data? TypeScript. Storage? TypeScript.

▶  uBlock Origin: Let's Read the Code — A prolific code reader spends some time digging into the popular ad blocker that’s almost entirely built in JavaScript.

Want Out of React Complexity? Try Vue — A high level piece that may provide some context if you haven’t dabbled with Vue yet.

Stale Thinking Causes Teams to Thrash — You Need a Breath of Fresh Air ☀️ — Get fresh perspective from product managers who’ve been-there-done-that across tons of domains, use cases, and problems.

Regexper: Display JavaScript Regular Expressions as Railroad Diagrams — Might come in handy for learning regular expressions or if you have a complex regular expression and you don’t know what it does (not an uncommon situation..!)

Hono 4.4: The Standards-Based JS Web App Framework for Everywhere — Hono is a small, fast web framework with a straightforward API, middleware support, and that runs pretty much on anything (Deno, Bun, Node, Cloudflare, and more). v4.4 brings it to JSR, adds timeout middleware, and a helper to get information about connected clients.

Inertia.js 1.1: Build SPAs for Any Backend — Inertia acts as ‘glue’ between various frontend libraries (React, Vue, or Svelte, say) and server-side frameworks (e.g. Rails or Laravel).

ShareDB 5.0: Realtime Database Backend Based on Operational Transformation — For when you need real time synchronization of JSON documents (such as for behind a real time collaboration app).

Qlock: A JavaScript Quine Clock — We linked to Martin's array of creative JavaScript experiments earlier, but why not finish with one that particularly tickled us? A quine is a program that takes no input but manages to produce, as output, its own source code. Here’s a fun JavaScript example that isn’t merely a quine, but a clock too.