JavaScript Weekly Subject 656: September 28, 2023

The Saga of Google’s Closure Compiler — Dan seems to be again at Google’s Closure Compiler, a JavaScript transpiler Google in-built 2004 and used most closely within the pre-TypeScript period to scale back the dimensions of JavaScript recordsdata, examine varieties, and in any other case deal with frequent pitfalls. A neat little bit of JavaScript historical past.

Dan Vanderkam

Constructing Cross-Platform Desktop Apps with Electron — On this detailed video course Steve Kinney shares how one can construct strong, user-friendly Electron-based desktop apps, protecting key ideas like principal and renderer processes, inter-process communication, safety, and extra.

Frontend Masters

One Factor No person Defined To You About TypeScript — The writer makes a powerful case for making a separate tsconfig.json for every surroundings your code runs in: “Immediately, I write about one factor about configuring TypeScript that took me years to appreciate. I’m positive you’re making the identical mistake as I did.”

Artem Zakharchenko

Upgrading Frontend Dependencies with Confidence — Writing assessments for logic in our apps is straightforward, however how will you decide if a part is not rendering correctly? Visible regression testing. This is a workflow primarily based on GitHub Actions, Playwright, and Argos.

Sébastien Lorber

JS Crush: Match Values That Are Equal in JS — The writer’s remark that that is “a sport that mocks JS equality quirks, probably the most absurd function of the language” ought to put you in the precise way of thinking for giving this Sweet Crush-inspired informal sport a go!

Herrington Darkholme