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#​719 — January 17, 2025

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JavaScript Weekly








Learn Yjs and Building Realtime Collaborative Apps in JavaScriptYjs is a CRDT (Conflict-free replicated data type) library for building collaborative and local-first apps. CDRTs are powerful but can be tricky to ‘get’ which is why this new interactive Yjs tutorial is so valuable. A great way to learn about building collaborative, syncing webapps from the ground up.


Jamsocket






Bun v1.1.44: The Fast JS Runtime Adds On-Demand Frontend Bundling — The popular, high-performance alternative JavaScript runtime has extended its Bun.serve() HTTP handler with support for bundling frontend apps on demand using HTML imports.


Ben Grant






Protect Against Bots, Fraud, and Abuse in Real Time — With WorkOS Radar you can detect, verify and block harmful behaviour, protecting your app with advanced device fingerprinting. Stop fake signups, stop free tier abuse, and stop bot attacks and brute force attempts today.


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A Checklist for Your tsconfig.json — What I love about Dr. Axel is when he’s done the hard work of figuring something out for himself, he writes it down. So it goes here, with his journey to set up a good tsconfig.json for his projects.


Dr. Axel Rauschmayer




IN BRIEF:





RELEASES:




📒 Articles & Tutorials





A Look at Regular Expression Pattern Modifiers — You may be familiar with using flags to change the behavior of regexes, but Dr. Axel looks at a proposal bringing a way to change regex flags within subexpressions (e.g. /^[a-z](?-i:[a-z])$/i;). It’s at stage 4 and should land in ECMAScript 2025.


Dr. Axel Rauschmayer






Accessibility Essentials Every React JS Developer Should Know — If you’re an experienced frontend developer, these might be second nature to you by now, but this is a good roundup of the entry level ‘table stakes’ for frontend accessibility, whether using React or not.


Martijn Hols






Write More Maintainable JavaScript with AI Code Reviews — CodeRabbit is your AI-powered code review companion that deeply understands the JavaScript codebase. Free for open source.


CodeRabbit sponsor






Five Years of React Native at Shopify — Five years ago, Shopify said React Native was the future for mobile development at their company and they meant it, with every mobile app moving to RN over time. Here’s what they learnt along the way and why they’re sticking with it.


Mustafa Ali (Shopify)






Revealed: React's Experimental Animations API<ViewTransition /> is based on the browser's View Transition API. It’s only in pre-release versions of React, but Matt is armed with examples for you to get a feel for the potential.


Matt Perry (Motion)




📄 All JavaScript Keyboard Shortcut Libraries are Broken – Reflections on long standing complexities with the myriad ways of detecting keypresses. Jack Duvall


📄 JavaScript Hashing Speed Comparison: MD5 vs. SHA-256 – You shouldn’t be using MD5 anyway, but you especially shouldn’t be using it with the misconception that it’s faster. Daniel Lemire


📄 5 Technical JavaScript Trends You Need To Know About in 2025 Alexander T. Williams


📄 Creating a Generative Artwork with Three.js Eduard Fossas


📄 JavaScript’s Promise.race and Promise.all Are Not “Fair” Chris Krycho


📄 Node.js's Type Stripping Explained Marco Ippolito



🛠 Code & Tools








♟️ Chess.js: A Library to Manage a Chess Game — Provides move generation, validation, piece placement, check/checkmate/stalemate detection – "everything but the AI!" v1.0 offers a rewrite to TypeScript and a variety of enhancements.


Jeff Hlywa




💡 Chess Engines: A Zero to One is a neat article digging into the technicalities of implementing a chess engine.





react-nil 2.0: A React 'Null Renderer' — An interesting experiment to use React in situations where you don’t need it to render anything, but you want to use hooks, suspense, context, and other bits of the React lifecycle. Like in, say, a Node app. Maybe this CodeSandbox example will provoke some ideas.


Poimandres






🔎 file-type 20.0: Detect the File Type of a File, Stream or Data — For example, give it the raw data from a PNG file, and it’ll tell you it’s a PNG. Uses a ‘magic number’ approach so is targeted at non text-based formats. v20 adds support for yet more formats, including JARs, Word/Excel templates, and now supports ZIP decompression.


Sindre Sorhus






Node Web Audio API 1.0: A Web Audio API Implementation for Node — More accurately, it’s a set of Node bindings for a Rust-powered non-browser implementation of the Web Audio API.


IRCAM – Centre Pompidou




⚙️ Vue Spring Bottom Sheet – A lightweight, flexible solution for bottom sheets in Vue apps. megaarmos


⚙️ Act – A Go-powered tool that looks at your repo's GitHub Actions, uses Docker to grab the necessary images, and runs the tasks locally. Nektos


⚙️ Svar – A new suite of open source UI components for Svelte, React, and Vue. XB Software







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01/15/2025

Even those feature-rich WordPress themes that offer virtually unlimited flexibility can’t necessarily handle every possible demand a designer or developer may throw at them, leaving the website builder with the choice of relying on coding to resolve the issue or seek another solution.  That other solution often takes the form of a WordPress plugin. Plugins […]


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#​718 — January 10, 2025

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🗓️ Friday is the new Thursday! If you were a JavaScript Weekly reader several years ago, you might remember it always landed on Fridays and after getting caught out by a variety of big news items landing on Thursdays in recent years, we're back ;-)
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 2024's JavaScript Rising Stars — It’s time to fully wave goodbye to 2024, but not before Michael Rambeau’s annual analysis of which JavaScript projects fared best on GitHub over the past year. Even if you dislike GitHub stars as a metric for anything, this remains a great way to get a feel for the JavaScript ecosystem and see what libraries and tools have mindshare in a variety of niches. A fantastic roundup as always.


Michael Rambeau






A Look at Import Attributes — It’s always a pleasure to see Dr. Axel blogging about JavaScript again, and he’s back with one of his typical deep dives into a newer ECMAScript feature: import attributes. This feature provides an inline syntax for attaching metadata to module imports such as for importing non-JavaScript modules (e.g. JSON, WASM or CSS).


Dr. Axel Rauschmayer






How to Enable End-to-End Testing with Synthetic Monitoring — Synthetic Monitoring helps you launch new features with confidence and speed. Learn how you can create robust end-to-end test suites, spend less time on false positives, and proactively catch errors before they get to production.


Datadog sponsor






Node’s New Built-in Support for TypeScriptNode.js v23.6.0 (Current) has just been released and makes Node’s new type-stripping features work by default, so you can just run node file.ts and it Should Just Work™. Dr. Axel explains how it works and what the limitations are.


Dr. Axel Rauschmayer




IN BRIEF:





RELEASES:




  • pnpm 10 – The efficient npm alternative no longer runs lifecycle scripts of dependencies for security reasons, hashing algorithms have been upgraded to SHA256, and lots of minor tweaks.




  • Bun v1.1.43 – The high-performance runtime gets first class S3 support, an HTML bundler, and can output V8 heap snapshots (which is quite something as Bun uses JavaScriptCore, not V8).




  • 🔠 Tesseract.js 6.0 – The popular pure JS multilingual OCR library has resolved a variety of memory leak issues.




  • Docusaurus 3.7 – The popular docs-oriented site generator goes full React 19.




  • Node.js v22.13.0 (LTS) – The permission model system is now stable.




  • Puppeteer 24.0, RxDB 16.0, Ember 6.1, QuickJS 0.8





📒 Articles & Tutorials





The Future of htmxhtmx is an increasingly popular way to enhance HTML and actually write less JavaScript on the frontend. This post reflects on how htmx would like to be ‘the new jQuery’, not least in the sense that one of the project’s goals is to push the ideas of htmx into the HTML standard itself, as in this set of proposals.


Gross and Petros






You Don't Need Next.js — As much as Next.js is considered the React meta-framework of choice, if your requirements are modest, simply going with plain React offers numerous benefits in terms of simplicity and speed, as seen here.


Benny Kok






Introducing Clerk SDKs for Vue and Nuxt — Official @clerk/vue & @clerk/nuxt SDKs for authentication integration with pre-built UI components in Vue/Nuxt apps.


Clerk sponsor






Using TypeScript Without Build Tools — Chris Coyier enjoys the benefits of TypeScript while developing, but actually compiling it to JavaScript in various scenarios is less endearing. We’ve learnt (above) that Node can now run .ts files directly, but what other projects support the use of TypeScript without build tools?


Chris Coyier




📄 Using a JavaScript Component Inside a Haskell App – Did you know Haskell’s main compiler supports integrating with JavaScript? Mateusz Goślinowski


📄 Crafting a Dreamy Particle Effect with Three.js and GPGPU Dominik Fojcik


📄 Build Your Own Site Speed Testing Tool with Puppeteer Henry Price


📄 Sharing a Variable Across HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Chris Coyier


📄 Benchmarking GraphQL Solutions in the JS/TS Landscape Tomasz Nieżurawski


📄 Shallow Clones vs Structured Clones Phil Nash



🛠 Code & Tools








PostalMime: A Universal Email Parsing Library — An email parsing library happy in most JS runtimes. Takes the raw source of emails and parses them into their constituent parts.


Postal Systems






trimMiddle(): The Missing String Trim Method? — If you’ve got a long string and want to keep the start and end and truncate in the middle, this is for you. There’s a live demo here and GitHub repo.


Christian Heilmann






Fully Customizable Form Builder that Blends Seamlessly with Your JS App — Need a survey solution you control? With SurveyJS, customize your form builder’s look and functionality. Try it for free.


SurveyJS sponsor






Introducing @smoores/epub: A Package for Working with EPUB FilesEPUB is a popular e-book file format and this new library provides a way to both read and write them. npm package link.


Shane Friedman






Tipex: An Advanced Rich Text Editor for Svelte — Based on the popular Tiptap editor framework, it’s customizable, has theming support, and is Svelte 5-ready. Here’s a live example.


Friend of Svelte






React-Toastify 11: In-Page Notifications Made Easy — There’s an elaborate demo page here but essentially it’s a flexible, easy to style ‘toast’ style notifications system with many years under its belt. GitHub repo.


Fadi Khadra






Electrobun: A New JS Cross-Platform Desktop App Toolkit — A fresh take on the concept covered by Electron and Neutralinojs, except based around Bun. It’s early days, though, with only ARM-based Macs supported for now.


Blackboard Technologies inc.










Tagify 4.33: An Elegant Input Component for Tags — The polished demos show a lot of effort has been put in here. GitHub repo.


Yair Even-Or











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🎁 And one for fun?








📄 Play Tetris in a PDF File — (direct link to PDF)





I'll let you decide if this one is fun or frightening! Whether or not this will work depends on your PDF reader or browser support, but it works with Chrome and Firefox, at least.


The PDF document format supports embedded JavaScript and this experiment uses it to implement a game of Tetris. The developer, Thomas Rinsma, has used Python to output the PostScript that includes the game's JavaScript. Couple that with the fact many browser PDF renderers are themselves implemented in JavaScript (e.g. PDF.js) and you have a veritable Matryoshka doll of technologies at play here.










01/08/2025

When you select a WordPress theme, you will naturally familiarize yourself with the design tools, aids, and other features the theme has to offer. The greater the number of features, it the more a theme should be able to do for you. “More” sometimes means “better” but you still have to ask if “better” will […]


The post Best WordPress Themes To Try Out in 2025 appeared first on WebAppers.


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#​717 — December 19, 2024

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🎄 We've made it to the end of 2024! In this issue, we're being reflective, leading with a few news items but then looking at what made 2024 special in the world of JavaScript, and covering some of the biggest things we linked to this year.

Then we're on a Christmas break for two weeks and will be back in your inbox on Friday, January 10, 2025, — yes, we're moving back to Fridays for 2025! We hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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JavaScript Weekly








The State of JavaScript 2024 Results — We recently encouraged you to take the annual State of JavaScript survey; the results are now out. 14,015 folks took part and we get to see what language features folks are using, experiences with popular libraries, build tool popularity, AI preferences, popular podcasts, runtime usage, and perhaps controversially, how more JavaScript developers are using TypeScript than not. There’s a lot to dig through here.


Sacha Greif






Complete Intro to React v9: New Project, Modern Stack — Join Brian Holt in building a pizza delivery app from scratch. Master hooks, TanStack Router, testing, and React 19 features in this comprehensive guide to modern React development. No prior React experience needed.


Frontend Masters sponsor




IN BRIEF:





RELEASES:








Introducing Authentication Support for React Router — Add authentication and authorization to your React Router application in minutes with pre-built components and more.


Clerk sponsor





📄 Introducing TanStack Start – A new full-stack React framework powered by TanStack Router. Adam Rackis


📄 How to Create Multi-Step Forms with Vanilla JS and CSS Fatuma Abdullaho


📄 Summarizing Text with Transformers.js Raymond Camden



🗓️ What Happened to JavaScript in 2024



The JavaScript world has had a busy 2024, as you'd expect for the world's most used programming language (despite the threat of being split into two). We looked back over the year and remembered some things that occurred:








Boost Semantic Search with MongoDB Atlas Vector Search — Create embeddings, index them, and run semantic queries—just follow the quick start tutorial.


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🥇 Our Top Items of 2024



Next up is a walk through the top items we included in 2024, ordered by level of reader engagement. No editorial judgments here – these are the things you cared about most:










1. console.delightBy far our most popular link of the year with over 20,000 clicks(!) – but who doesn't use and love console.log? This post showed us how in the browser console it's not merely for printing plain text, but can be used to render things like SVGs and HTML.


Zach Saucier






2. JavaScript Visualized: Promise Execution — A well-diagrammed article coupled with an (optional) 8 minute video that went into how promises work under the hood. Hugely popular as most of Lydia's content tends to be.


Lydia Hallie







WorkOS: Sell to Enterprises with a Few Lines of Code — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, offering flexible, easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and FGA in minutes instead of months.


WorkOS sponsor







3. Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework? — Despite being five years old, htmx has seen a surge in popularity in 2023 and 2024, partly due to framework fatigue, but also as its simple HTML-oriented approach to adding functionality to pages appeals to a diverse group of developers. v2.0 landed in June.


Alexander Petros






4. Ecma International Approves ECMAScript 2024: What’s New? — In June, the Ecma General Assembly approved the latest ECMAScript / JavaScript spec, officially making it a standard. As with ES2023, it was a reasonably small step forward, but Dr. Axel rounded up what was new.


Dr. Axel Rauschmayer






5. JavaScript's ??= Operator: Default Values Made Simple — The ??= nullish coalescing assignment operator snuck into JavaScript a few years ago via ES2021 and has been broadly supported almost everywhere for ages. Trevor showed off how it can tighten up your assignments.


Trevor I. Lasn






6. Eloquent JavaScript: The Fourth Edition — Coming several years after the third edition, the latest version of what is, perhaps, the best ‘all rounder’ book for learning JavaScript arrived in March “adjusted to the realities of 2024 and generally touched up.”


Marijn Haverbeke






7. 33 JavaScript Concepts Every Developer Should Know — A curated collection of links to tutorials on 33 different areas it’s worth understanding well, including types, closures, equality, scope, and different engines.


Leonardo Maldonado






8. How Google Handles JavaScript In Its Indexing Process — At one point if you wanted Google to index your content it needed to be directly written in HTML and not dynamically rendered with JavaScript. Things have since changed, of course, but by how much?


Zecchini, Moore, Siddle, Ubl (Vercel)







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🤗 Many thanks for reading JavaScript Weekly in 2024, sending in your links, and generally supporting us. We look forward to seeing you again early next year. Remember, we're moving back to Fridays (long term subscribers may remember we used to go out on Fridays for the first several years) so we'll be back on Friday, January 10.