🗞 Issue 26 / 28.07.2023


📄 Hono + Htmx + Cloudflare: A New Stack?

A lot of people seem to be jumping on htmx lately as an alternative to the complexity of frameworks like React, but what if you want to keep using JSX? Hono is a (vaguely Express-like) Web framework targeting edge function use cases and includes middleware for rendering JSX. Yusuke gives a quick example of how all this can come together with Cloudflare Workers and D1 for a simpler, full-stack JS experience.

YUSUKE WADA


📄 Shrinking VS Code with Name Mangling

There’s a fair bit of JavaScript in VS Code but the team has managed to reduce the size of the shipped code by almost 4MB without actually doing any deleting or refactoring thanks to a new ‘name mangling’ build step. This is a great read on how the team approached things and got it working.

MATT BIERNER


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⚡️ IN BRIEF

🐦 React/Redux's Dan Abramov is leaving Meta. Having achieved so much and reaching a point where he feels ready to move on, Dan is departing Meta but will remain on the React team as an independent third party. 💙

📘 The Concise TypeScript Book is, unsurprisingly, a guide to using TypeScript. More surprisingly, it's all on GitHub and free to read. Hurrah.

Tixy is an interactive page for learning logic, math and expressions by solving puzzles using a visual grid. It starts off very simply, but gets elaborate quickly. This is a neat way to pick up some of the skills needed for Dwitter.

JSPlayground is a new Web-based JavaScript sandbox tool.

Is the term 'Jamstack' finished? Brian Rinaldi wonders.

🎉 RELEASES

Bun 0.7
The JavaScriptCore-based alternative JS runtime adds (experimental) Vite support, Web Workers support, and includes a --smol option to run in memory constrained environments (with a significant memory reduction shown off in the post).

Astro 2.9
The 'zero JS by default' framework adds experimental support for view transitions and more.

Neutralinojs v4.13.0
Lightweight cross-platform desktop app framework.

Remix 1.19
Modern full-stack JS framework.

Node.js v20.5.0 (Current)

So true 😂