JavaScript Weekly Problem 682: April 4, 2024

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A Proposal to Add Alerts to JavaScript — A (very) early stage proposal for bringing a brand new characteristic to ECMAScript/JavaScript: indicators! The proposal brings aboard concepts from a swathe of standard frameworks and goals to align everybody and get us on the identical web page with regards to working with state and making updates based mostly upon modifications to state. Rob writes extra concerning the proposal right here.

Rob Eisenberg and Daniel Ehrenberg

Bun 1.1 Launched: Now Helps Home windows Too — With the lighthearted codename of Bundows, the choice server aspect runtime now runs straight on Home windows 10 and up (plus WSL, macOS and Linux, in fact). It is a key step in its adoption, with even options like Bun Shell completely happy on Home windows out of the field. Node compatibility continues to enhance with help for node:http2 and IPC help between Bun and Node processes.

The Complete Bun Staff

IN BRIEF:

Samuel Groß of the V8 workforce explains the V8 Sandbox, a safety mechanism designed to stop reminiscence corruption within the V8 engine impacting different reminiscence within the course of.
Dexie.js is a well-liked wrapper for IndexedDB and its creator has launched Dexie Cloud, a platform to retailer and synchronize information between apps.
Svelte’s Wealthy Harris is ‘shaken up’ after a misunderstanding round ‘self-closing’ HTML tags and their impact on Svelte.
🤡 There was a curious JS-themed April Fools prank the place a .js TLD for domains was ‘introduced’. Sadly, it isn’t true, however there is js.org if you would like one thing vaguely comparable.
An official replace on the merging of Angular and Wiz.

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📒 Articles & Tutorials

What Even Is a JSON Quantity? — Regardless of the presence of requirements round JSON, the reply is extra difficult than you’d suppose, notably with regards to interfacing with different ecosystems and languages that aren’t JavaScript.

Brian Terlson

The BFCache Defined — The again/ahead cache (‘bfcache’) is a browser optimization that makes going again and ahead within the browser a sooner expertise – it’s been current for years and normally leaves you alone as a JavaScript developer, however there are issues value being conscious of.

Sabatino Masala