JavaScript Weekly Concern 705: September 19, 2024

‘Oracle, It’s Time to Free JavaScript.’ — It’s lengthy been a bone of competition that Oracle owns the trademark for ‘JavaScript’ (we put out a name two years in the past) however this marks the primary severe effort to try to change that, together with petitioning the USPTO, if vital. You may assist the trouble by signing this open letter, becoming a member of an unlimited array of JavaScript luminaries.

The JavaScript Group

ts-blank-space: Quick Kind-Stripping TypeScript to JS Compiler — It’s job is straightforward: be the quickest TS to JS compiler written in JS (it’s 5.6x sooner than tsc.) Varieties are merely changed with whitespace preserving the coordinates of the JS code which eliminates the necessity for sourcemaps solely.

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ViteConf is October third! — StackBlitz is r(ai)sing the bar within the ViteConf ’24 keynote. You gained’t need to miss it 👀.

StackBlitz

A React 19 Cheat Sheet — From Kent C Dodds, of Epic React fame, comes this half cheat sheet, half succinct reminder of a few of the new issues you are able to do in React 19, together with (very) transient code examples.

Kent C. Dodds

ts-remove-unused: Take away Unused Code from TypeScript Initiatives — A device that may auto-fix unused exports (eradicating export from the declaration or the entire declaration primarily based on its utilization) and delete modules that don’t have any referenced exports. Knip is one other mature device on this house, although targeted extra on detecting the issues you’ll be able to take away.

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