~javascriptweekly | Issue 703 - Reverse engineering minified JS with ChatGPT (19)

Belt: A New Tool for Starting React Native Apps — A CLI tool for starting a new React Native app that takes various mundane decisions away from you and uses tooling and conventions established by a productive app development team.

An SSR Performance Showdown — Fastify’s Matteo Collina set out to find the current state of server-side rendering performance across today’s most popular libraries. The first attempt faced negative feedback due to implementation issues, but the showdown has been improved and re-run.

Announcing Vue 3.5 — While v3.5 is a minor release, it’s one Vue users will love, with big performance and memory usage improvements in its reactivity system. With no breaking changes, upgrade and watch memory consumption drop.

Reverse Engineering Minified JavaScript with ChatGPT — Writing new code with AI is one thing, but could it be even better at understanding existing code that you’re struggling to grok? Yes, it seems.

Inside ECMAScript: JavaScript Standards Get an Extra Stage — After nine years of annual updates, TC39 has tweaked the process to make rolling out new features faster and smoother. The so-called ‘Stage 2.7’ has been around for a while, but this is a neat primer to what it represents.

[Workshop] Fix Your Front-End: JavaScript Edition — Learn practical tips to make debugging more tolerable. Join our JavaScript team live for a masterclass on Sept 24.

▶  Behind the Scenes: The Making of VS Code — A detailed conversation with two of the popular editor's principal engineers on what makes it tick. VS Code is surely one of the world's most widely distributed JavaScript-powered apps.

How I Created a 3.78MB Docker Image for a JavaScript Service — The smallest JavaScript app container images tend to run into tens of megabytes, but tailoring your app to run on a lighter runtime like llrt can yield striking results.

Leave Forms to SurveyJS and Get Back to What You Love Coding — Extensible JavaScript libraries for form management. Drag-and-drop UI, JSON form definitions, and seamless integration with any backend for full data control.

Exploring Goja: A Go-Powered JavaScript Runtime — Goja is a pure Go(lang) JS runtime that makes it possible to embed JS into Go apps.

How to Use React Compiler — The compiler feature in React 19 is generating a lot of buzz — this “complete guide”, as described by this author, covers much of what you'll need to get started.

Multithreaded Programming in Node.js using Atomics — Worker threads enable you to write multi-threaded Node apps, but sharing resources across them can quickly become tricky. Atomics can help avoid some of the pain.

jsdiff 6.0: A JavaScript Text Diffing Implementation — Can compare strings for differences in various ways including creating patches. There’s an online demo. (Don't worry – we're not going monthly ;-))

Redwood v8.0 Released — A long standing, opinionated React & GraphQL (and/or RSC) full-stack framework that covers all the bases for professional dev teams with best-in-class tool support. v8.0 introduces a background jobs system, Docker support, and easier SSR and RSC setup.

🇬🇧 GOV.UK Vue 1.0: Build Vue Apps, the British Way — The UK government is known for having an effective, well-designed site where Brits can complete various official tasks. Now you can get all of their components in Vue 3 form.

👀 style-observer: A Mutation Observer for CSS — Attach JavaScript callbacks to changes in computed values of CSS properties.

Goxygen: Quickly Generate a Go Backend for a JS Project — A tool that sets up a new Go-based project with Angular, React, or Vue in the front-end, and Docker and Docker Compose files to make it all work.

Typist 7.0: Tiptap-Based Rich Text Editor Component — Simple and opinionated. You can try several examples in the sidebar. Well suited for basic rich text situations like writing comments or messages and has a single-line mode.

WorkOS: The Modern Identity Platform for B2B SaaS — WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, offering flexible and easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and RBAC in minutes instead of months. It's trusted by hundreds of high-growth startups such as Perplexity, Vercel, Drata, and Webflow.