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JavaScript Weekly Concern 723: February 14, 2025


Fashion Observer: A Library to Observe CSS Property Adjustments — Lea Verou is a developer who’s simple to admire as a result of each time she units out to resolve an issue, the outcomes are all the time totally fashioned with no lower corners. So it goes with this ‘exhaustively examined’ JS library for observing modifications to CSS properties which deftly handles a lot of browser quirks. See the undertaking homepage for extra. (TIL there’s a .fashion TLD!)

Lea Verou

💡 Lea has many different tasks to take a look at, together with Coloration.js which equally nails the entire strategy of dealing with and manipulating colours in JS and the browser.

Why to Transfer On to ‘ESM-Solely’ — The march to utilizing ES modules has been occurring for years, however in case you’re nonetheless holding out, there’s most likely a very good motive why? Nonetheless, when you can preserve packages supporting each ESM and CommonJS, Anthony thinks it’s time to go ‘ESM solely’ and explains why.

Anthony Fu

💡 On that matter, Sarah Gooding writes about require(esm) being backported and steady on Node.js 20 which makes the transition even simpler to justify.

IN BRIEF:

RELEASES:

📒 Articles & Tutorials

  • Kaluma 1.2 – Tiny JavaScript runtime for the RP2040 (Raspberry Pi Pico).

  • bcrypt.js 3.0 – Optimized bcrypt in pure JS. Even within the browser.

  • Jasmine 5.6 – Testing framework for browsers & Node.

  • 🤖 Midscene.js 0.11 – Let AI be your browser operator.

🔠 And slightly typography bonus

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