~javascriptweekly | Issue 693 - The results are in (12)

The Results of the State of JavaScript 2023 Survey — It feels odd including something about 2023 in June 2024, but the results of the major annual JavaScript developer survey are now out. It’s interesting to see what features JS devs do and don’t use, changes in library popularity over time, what build tools people are using, the divide between JavaScript and TypeScript usage,...

How JavaScript is Finally Improving the Module Experience — Multiple long-term proposals collectively known as “module harmony” will complete the features lost as developers move away from CommonJS.

How React 19 (Almost) Made the Internet Slower — Even changes that are planned in advance can have big effects on the developer experience if people aren’t aware of them. A change to Suspense in React 19 led to much confusion and surprise, but the story has a happy ending with the React team ready to listen to end users more closely.

▶  3D in TypeScript with Raycasting — Raycasting is a somewhat old fashioned technique to render 3D environments (you may have seen it in 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D) but it’s easy to understand and worth implementing at least once.

Live Types in a TypeScript Monorepo — Several strategies to make a TypeScript monorepo feel more “alive” in the sense of the propagation of changes.

Intro to Sentry & Codecov: Live Demo — From pre to post-release, learn how Sentry help developers find and fix errors and slowdowns and deploy with confidence.

What Happens When a Major npm Library Goes Commercial? — The ua-parser-js library is commonly used to parse user agent strings and gets over 12 million downloads a month, but it has recently switched to AGPL+commercial licensing.

Dual Publishing ESM and CJS Modules with tsup and 'Are the Types Wrong' — tsup makes it easy to bundle TypeScript libraries and 'Are the Types Wrong?' analyzes packages for issues with their types.

Phoenix: A macOS Window Manager You Can Script with JS — macOS is set to adding more window management features in Sequoia, but how about something you can script entirely with JavaScript right now? GitHub repo.

JSONEditor: A Component for Viewing and Editing JSON — If your app needs to let users work with JSON directly, this is worth a look. It supports both text and tree views and is cross browser compatible. Live demo.

Rooster v9.6: Microsoft's Framework-Independent Rich Text Editor — A rich-text editor control neatly nested inside a single div element (demo). Several years old, but still maintained.

NLUX: A Library for Rendering Conversational AI Experiences — If you want to spin up a ChatGPT-style conversational experience on top of your own services or third party AI backends, this provides the pieces needed to get an interface up quickly. GitHub repo.