📌 Issue 28 / 04.08.2023


📄 A Tale of Evading JavaScript Anti-Debugging Techniques

When you’re poking around debugging code written and distributed by a third party, there might be some sneaky traps thrown in your path to prevent your usual techniques from working. What next? Disable breakpoints in DevTools? Use a proxy? What about.. recompiling your entire browser? 😆

VERITAS


📄 VanJS 1.0: A 1KB Reactive UI Framework Without React/JSX

VanJS is particularly light and elegant, and its author has put some serious effort into documenting it and offering tools to convert your HTML to its custom format. This week’s v1.0 release is a relatively big step forward for what is still a young project. GitHub repo.

TAO XIN


🐉 dnt: A Tool to Publish a Hybrid npm Module for ESM and CommonJS

From the Deno team comes a tool that lets you write modules in JavaScript or TypeScript and then transforms them to support CommonJS, ESM, browsers, Deno, Node, and more.

ANDY JIANG (DENO)


©️JS WEEKLY

🆒 Linux's new and shiny asynchronous I/O technology, io_uring, is based on completions rather than readiness, and it boasts support for all file descriptors.

linux: introduce io_uring support #3952

Prototype using io_uring for true async fs I/O in libuv/Node.js

➡️Full Stack Serverless (2020)
Modern Application Development with React, AWS, and GraphQL

Cloud computing is typically associated with backend development and DevOps. But with the rise of serverless technologies and a new generation of services and frameworks, frontend and mobile developers ...

Nader Dabit

➡️Mastering React Test-Driven Development (2022)

Learn test-driven and behavior-driven development techniques that will give you greater confidence when building React applications key features. Explore the TDD process, how it works, and why it will help ...

Daniel Irvine

👀 How to Build a Drag-and-Drop Kanban Board

A complete screencast walkthrough of using React to build a Trello-like app based around the familiar Kanban board pattern. It also serves as an introduction to the dnd-kit drag-and-drop toolkit.

KLITON BARE

📌 Issue 29 / 09.08.2023


📄 npmgraph: A Way to Visualize Dependency Graphs

Give this Web-based tool one or more package names (or a package.json of your own) and you can see a visualization of the dependency graphs for those packages, including where they intersect. Packages can be colored by various criteria (such as number of maintainers) and you can download a SVG of the resulting graphs to paste into your reports and presentations if you like scaring people that way. There’s a lot more to this tool than meets the eye so have a play.

KIEFFER, BRIGANTE, ET AL.


📄 A Compilation of Outstanding JS Testing Articles

Since we’re taking a couple of weeks off, you might be keen to have some Node related reading stacked up, and Yoni delivers with his opinionated list of 10 outstanding testing articles, all with a Node slant to them. He also mentions his own list of JavaScript and Node.js Testing Best Practices which is worth revisiting too.

YONI GOLDBERG


©️NODE.JS WEEKLY

💿 Macintosh.js: A Virtual Macintosh Running via Electron

An impressive virtual machine emulating a 1991 Macintosh Quadra 900 with System 8, all running in Electron. We linked to this several years ago but it’s had some updates since then and runs faster than before. As well as a few games, such as Oregon Trail, there are a variety of apps pre-installed, including a trial of Adobe Photoshop 3 which starts up faster than my real Photoshop now.. (Download necessary since it's an Electron app and all..)

FELIX RIESEBERG, APPLE, ET AL.