~javascriptweekly | Issue 707 - Evan You's next big adventure (15)

pretty-print: Customizable String Representations of JS Values — Produce a string representation of any value. Similar to util.inspect but with many extra options for tree-ifying, coloring, sorting, choosing what to display, etc.

VoidZero: A Next-Generation Toolchain for JavaScript — Not content to have merely created Vue.js and Vite, JavaScript powerhouse Evan You has unveiled his latest adventure: a $4.6m funded company building an open-source unified development toolchain for the JavaScript ecosystem. With his track record, this is as good an attempt as it gets.

ESLint Now Officially Supports Linting JSON and Markdown — ESLint has been taking steps to become a more general purpose linter and that effort is beginning to bear fruit with this milestone.

Tauri 2.0: Small, Fast Desktop Apps using Web Technologies — Tauri is a Rust-based alternative to Electron for bringing together HTML, JavaScript and CSS code to create cross-platform desktop apps. Rather than using V8, it uses the natively available webview to run your code.

▶  Bundling: The Past, Present and Future — A history lesson on bundlers, why they’re used, the problems they solve, the current ecosystem, and a look at the potential future for these tools.

Unleash JavaScript's Potential with Functional Programming — More focused on the how, rather than the why, but a good primer nonetheless, especially if you’ve never tried to learn about FP before.

An Online Event You Won’t Want to Miss — 🔥 JetBrains JavaScript Day returns Oct 24, and it promises to be the best one yet! Explore an impressive agenda and register for free today.

SVG Coding Examples: Useful Recipes for Writing Vectors by Hand — Explores the basics of hand-coding SVGs, how to use JavaScript along the way, and practical examples to demystify the inner workings of common SVG elements.

🤖 assistant-ui: React Components for AI Chat — It doesn’t just give you the interface components, but has integrations for Vercel AI, Langchain, and talking to other common LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI), enabling you to build your own in-house AI chat system quickly. Examples.

qrframe: A Library to Generate 'Pretty' QR Codes — It's slightly odd as the QR codes generated aren’t guaranteed to scan reliably, but if you can generate ones that do, they look striking, and could be useful for branding/fun use cases. Play around with a live demo here.

Announcing MongoDB 8.0 — Over 30% Faster Than Before — Learn how MongoDB 8.0 was built to exceed the most stringent security, availability, and performance requirements.

Superdiff 2.0: Compares Two Arrays or Objects and Return a Diff — Got two similar objects and want to see the underlying differences?

µExpress / Ultimate Express: Like Express, But Faster — Imagine a reimplementation of Express with full API compatibility, but based on µWebSockets and with an optimized router for faster performance.

VueFormify 1.1: Simple Type-Safe Form Building for Vue — Bills itself as “your ticket to form-building autonomy.” There’s a getting started guide and GitHub repo.

Run GitHub Actions Up to 2x Faster at Half the Cost — Blacksmith runs your GitHub Actions substantially faster by running them on modern gaming CPUs. Integrating Blacksmith is a one-line code change. 100+ companies like Ashby, Superblocks, and Slope use Blacksmith to help developers merge code faster.