~javascriptweekly | Issue 698 - What's new for us in ECMAScript 2024 (15)

litegraph.js: A Graph Node Engine and Editor — Useful if you need to create a system for users to create and manipulate graphs or interconnecting ‘nodes’ for things like graphics, audio or data pipelines. Demo.

Astro 4.12: Say Hello to Server Islands — The flexible Astro framework for building modern content-based sites continues to go from strength to strength. v4.12 includes a new concept of server islands, a way to integrate static HTML and server-side generated components together.

What’s New for JavaScript Developers in ECMAScript 2024 — High level analysis of developments in the ECMAScript spec, with insights from Ecma vice president Daniel Ehrenberg, TC39 co-chair Rob Palmer, and developer Ashley Claymore. A good, thorough roundup of the state of play.

Level Up Your Next.js Skills — Join Scott Moss for this detailed video course on intermediate Next.js. Learn how to build production-ready apps by diving into concepts such as server actions, data fetching, protected routes, form authentication, performance caching, and more.

A Post Mortem of What Broke Node v22.5.0 — Node's ‘Current’ release line gives access to the latest Node has to offer, at the risk of encountering troublesome bugs too – v22.5 included two, alas, with Node v22.5.1 quickly following to resolve them.

So You Think You Know Box Shadows? — The author indulges his creative side with some fun experiments into what he calls “some of the worst possible things” you can do with box shadows on a DIV element, coupled with JavaScript.

▶  Don't Use JS for That: Moving Features to CSS and HTML — Packed with code and examples. Some techniques aren’t universally supported yet, but there’s a lot that the browser can offer that you don’t need to reimplement yourself, like color picking, modals, and animations.

How to Choose the Best Rendering Strategy for Your App — The differences between Static Site Generation (SSG), Server-Side Rendering (SSR), Client-Side Rendering (CSR), Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR), and Partial Prerendering (PPR).

A Practical Guide to Not Blocking the Event Loop — A look at the core principles of synchronous and asynchronous work in a single-threaded environment, stressing the importance of non-blocking code for efficient event loop utilization.

Why is Spawning a New Process in Node So Slow? — The developers of the Val Town platform noticed that Node couldn’t spawn more than 40 external processes per second, whereas Deno and Bun could do a lot more..

Debugging Your Node.js Project with Sentry — Join us live today to learn all the basics to monitoring and debugging your Node.js projects with Sentry.

Ky: Tiny, Elegant Fetch-Based HTTP Client for Browsers — Makes the Fetch API tidier to use as shown here. If you want to tighten up your fetch calls, it's worth a look.

React Native Filament: A 3D Rendering Engine for React Native — Fast, native 3D rendering with a React touch. Rendering takes place on a separate thread for efficiency. GitHub repo and pretty good docs, too.

Git Granary: A Personal Git LFS Server — A Deno-powered (but can run under Bun and Node) Git Large File Storage (LFS) server implementation written in TypeScript for self-hosted personal use cases.

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