The outcomes are in

#​693 — June 20, 2024

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JavaScript Weekly

The Outcomes of the State of JavaScript 2023 Survey — It feels odd together with one thing about 2023 in June 2024, however the outcomes of the most important annual JavaScript developer survey are actually out. It’s fascinating to see what options JS devs do and don’t use, modifications in library recognition over time, what construct instruments individuals are utilizing, the divide between JavaScript and TypeScript utilization, and rather more apart from.

Devographics

How JavaScript is Lastly Bettering the Module Expertise — A number of long-term proposals collectively often known as “module concord” will full the options misplaced as builders transfer away from CommonJS.

Mary Branscombe / The New Stack

Simplify Your Information Assortment with a Totally Built-in Type Administration Platform — SurveyJS is an open-source JavaScript library suite for safe type creation and information assortment in your app. Construct JSON-driven surveys/varieties rapidly, with out handbook coding. Combine with any backend system, collect and retailer responses whereas retaining full management over your information.

SurveyJS sponsor

How React 19 (Virtually) Made the Web Slower — Even modifications which might be deliberate upfront can have huge results on the developer expertise if folks aren’t conscious of them. A change to Suspense in React 19 led to a lot confusion and shock, however the story has a cheerful ending with the React crew able to hear to finish customers extra carefully.

Henrique Yuji

IN BRIEF:

• Evan You, the creator of Vue.js, lately gave ▶️ a chat on 10 years of Vue, masking each its previous and future.

• Over on Twitter/X, Daniel Lemire confirmed off a scenario the place Bun is way quicker than Node.js, even when each are utilizing the identical underlying library, because of the complexities the V8 engine introduces.

• 🎵 Do you know TC39 now has its personal pop group and a tune?

RELEASES:

• htmx 2.0 – The favored ‘entry plenty of JS and Internet API options through particular HTML attributes’ library will get a brand new main model primarily to take away deprecations and drop IE help.

• Electron 31 – The cross-platform desktop app framework steps as much as Chromium 126, Node 20.14, and V8 12.6.

• Relay 17 – Fb’s declaritive GraphQL shopper for React.

• ESLint 9.5, Serverless Framework v4, pnpm 9.4

Your Quickest Path to Manufacturing — Construct, deploy, and scale your apps with unparalleled ease – out of your first consumer to your billionth.

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📒 Articles & Tutorials

▶  3D in TypeScript with Raycasting — Raycasting is a considerably quaint method to render 3D environments (you might have seen it in 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D) but it surely’s simple to grasp and price implementing not less than as soon as.

Tsoding Every day

Stay Varieties in a TypeScript Monorepo — A number of methods to make a TypeScript monorepo really feel extra “alive” within the sense of the propagation of modifications.

Colin McDonnell

Intro to Sentry & Codecov: Stay Demo — From pre to post-release, learn the way Sentry assist builders discover and repair errors and slowdowns and deploy with confidence.

Sentry sponsor

What Occurs When a Main npm Library Goes Industrial? — The ua-parser-js library is often used to parse consumer agent strings and will get over 12 million downloads a month, but it surely has lately switched to AGPL+industrial licensing.

Matteo Collina

Twin Publishing ESM and CJS Modules with tsup and ‘Are the Varieties Fallacious’ — tsup makes it simple to bundle TypeScript libraries and ‘Are the Varieties Fallacious?’ analyzes packages for points with their varieties.

John Reilly

📄 How you can Use Google Sheets as a ‘Database’ from React Paul Scanlon

📺 How Svelte and RSCs are Altering Internet Growth – A bunch dialogue together with Svelte’s Wealthy Harris, Tracy Lee, Ben Lesh, and Adam Rackis. This Dot Media

📄 Mastering Date Formatting utilizing Intl.DateTimeFormat Rafael Camargo

📄 MobX Memoizes Parts (You Do not Want React Compiler) – In case you’re really utilizing MobX, that is. Mike Johnson

📄 Refactoring a Scroll-Pushed Animation from JavaScript to CSS Andrico Karoulla

📄 UUIDv7 Carried out in 20 Languages – Surprisingly quick and candy. Anton Zhiyanov

🛠 Code & Instruments

Phoenix: A macOS Window Supervisor You Can Script with JS — macOS is about to including extra window administration options in Sequoia, however how about one thing you possibly can script completely with JavaScript proper now? GitHub repo.

Kasper Hirvikoski

JSONEditor: A Part for Viewing and Enhancing JSON — In case your app must let customers work with JSON straight, that is price a glance. It helps each textual content and tree views and is cross browser appropriate. Stay demo.

Jos de Jong

Transformational Auth & Id | Userfront — “In comparison with our earlier experiences within the safety/auth house, Userfront is an order of magnitude less complicated to use.”

Userfront sponsor

Rooster v9.6: Microsoft’s Framework-Unbiased Wealthy Textual content Editor — A rich-text editor management neatly nested inside a single div ingredient (demo). A number of years previous, however nonetheless maintained.

Microsoft

NLUX: A Library for Rendering Conversational AI Experiences — If you wish to spin up a ChatGPT-style conversational expertise on high of your personal companies or third celebration AI backends, this supplies the items wanted to get an interface up rapidly. GitHub repo.

Salmen Hichri

⚙︎ NodeSwift – Bridges Node.js and Swift so you possibly can write Swift code that talks to Node and vice versa. Kabir Oberai

⚙︎ Vuesion – Boilerplate for Subsequent/Vue app improvement. Werner-Most Ideen GmbH

⚙︎ Kitbag Router – Kind protected router for Vue.js. Craig Harshbarger

QUICK RELEASES:

• Electron Retailer 10.0 – Easy information persistence for Electron apps.

• React Date Picker 7.1 – Easy date picker element. (Demo.)

• Monads 0.7 – Rust-inspired Choice, Outcome, and Both varieties.

• Plasmo 0.88 – “Like Subsequent.js for browser extensions.”

• MUI X 7.7 – Standard React element suite.

• React Tag Autocomplete 7.3

🤖 QUICK NOTE

Subsequent week, I am attending the AI Engineer World’s Truthful. In case you occur to be there, come and say hello!

It is perhaps a bit late to attend in individual except you are primarily based in SF, however you possibly can subscribe to the AI Engineer YouTube channel to be notified when the livestreams go stay subsequent Wednesday and Thursday if you would like to see what is going on on.

— Peter Cooper, your editor