🗞 Issue 20 / 07.07.2023
📄What's Next for JavaScript: New Features to Look Forward to
A reassuring and high level look at just what goes into making JavaScript better over time, along with some of the new things about to appear or still making their way through the arduous TC39 process.
MARY BRANSCOMBE (THE NEW STACK)
Mary has followed up this piece with Beyond Browsers: The Longterm Future of JavaScript Standards which goes into more depth on JavaScript's ongoing developments in the world of servers and edge functions.
🎬 Remotion v4.0: Create Videos Using React
A powerful framework for creating videos from code using React and JavaScript. v4 is such a big update they ▶️ recorded a keynote to show it off.
JONNY BURGER
©️JS WEEKLY
📄What's Next for JavaScript: New Features to Look Forward to
A reassuring and high level look at just what goes into making JavaScript better over time, along with some of the new things about to appear or still making their way through the arduous TC39 process.
MARY BRANSCOMBE (THE NEW STACK)
Mary has followed up this piece with Beyond Browsers: The Longterm Future of JavaScript Standards which goes into more depth on JavaScript's ongoing developments in the world of servers and edge functions.
🎬 Remotion v4.0: Create Videos Using React
A powerful framework for creating videos from code using React and JavaScript. v4 is such a big update they ▶️ recorded a keynote to show it off.
JONNY BURGER
©️JS WEEKLY
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RELEASES
TypeScript 5.2 Beta
Just a month after the final release of 5.1, too. using is the headline feature and the release post goes into fantastic detail.
Node.js v20.4.0 (Current)
Node gains an interesting new 'mock timers' feature for writing more reliable and deterministic tests for time-dependent functionality.
Vite 4.4
The frontend toolkit updates to esbuild 0.18, adds experimental Lightning CSS support, and there are new starter templates for Solid and Qwik users.
Deno 1.35 – The alternative JS runtime makes Deno.serve() (its Web server API) stable, and improves npm and Node compatibility.
Bun 0.6.13
TypeScript 5.2 Beta
Just a month after the final release of 5.1, too. using is the headline feature and the release post goes into fantastic detail.
Node.js v20.4.0 (Current)
Node gains an interesting new 'mock timers' feature for writing more reliable and deterministic tests for time-dependent functionality.
Vite 4.4
The frontend toolkit updates to esbuild 0.18, adds experimental Lightning CSS support, and there are new starter templates for Solid and Qwik users.
Deno 1.35 – The alternative JS runtime makes Deno.serve() (its Web server API) stable, and improves npm and Node compatibility.
Bun 0.6.13
🛠 CODE & TOOLS
🔩MathLive: A Web Component for Math Input
A web component that provides an interface for editing formulas. It uses LaTeX-style typesetting to keep things looking good. GitHub repo.
ARNO GOURDOL
🔩copy-text-to-clipboard: Copy Text to Clipboard in Modern Browsers
Pretty simple but will save you a little messing around with the browser API.
SINDRE SORHUS
🔩MathLive: A Web Component for Math Input
A web component that provides an interface for editing formulas. It uses LaTeX-style typesetting to keep things looking good. GitHub repo.
ARNO GOURDOL
🔩copy-text-to-clipboard: Copy Text to Clipboard in Modern Browsers
Pretty simple but will save you a little messing around with the browser API.
SINDRE SORHUS
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What is the output?
Anonymous Quiz
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undefined 10 undefined
42%
ReferenceError undefined 10
28%
undefined 10 5
9%
undefined undefined 5
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