The Importance of THIS in Javascript

🗞 Issue 24 / 21.07.2023


📄 pkg-size: Find the True, Current Size of an npm Package Without Leaving Your Browser

A beautifully designed site that can show you the true size of an npm package (including dependencies) using the actual packages which are 'installed' in a browser-based WebContainers-powered environment. Hiroki has 🐦 a Twitter thread where he explains more about how it works.

HIROKI OSAME


📄 TypeScript and the Dawn of Gradual Types

From GitHub’s ReadME project comes a thorough journalistic take on how static typing made it into the JavaScript world, what TypeScript offers, some alternative approaches, and the possibility of adding type annotations to JavaScript iself.

MIKE MELANSON (GITHUB)


📄 Five Inconvenient Truths about TypeScript

A brief dose of reality for a world seemingly obsessed with TypeScript: “If you want to get into TypeScript, don’t think you can leave JavaScript behind. It will find you, and it will get you.”

STEFAN BAUMGARTNER


©️JS WEEKLY

⚡️ IN BRIEF

- The Promise.withResolvers proposal has progressed from stage 2 to 3 at TC39, as has the array grouping proposal, as well as source phase imports.

- 🗣 The folks on Hacker News discussed why the site isn't being indundated with links to new JavaScript frameworks recently. Has React 'won'? Has AI stolen the limelight? Or is a JavaScript revolution quietly brewing..?

- 👴🏻 A blog post from 1996 popped up telling us about the newest JavaScript features in Netscape 3.0 – definitely a blast from the past. Say hello to the typeof operator!

🍩 donut.js

Animates a spinning ASCII text donut on the screen.

wavesurfer.js 7: Audio Waveform Player

If you’re creating a podcast player, audio experience, or anything where seeing an interactive audio waveform could be useful, check this out. GitHub repo.

KATSPAUGH AND CONTRIBUTORS