JavaScript Weekly Subject 669: January 4, 2024

🌟 The 2023 JavaScript Rising Stars — At first of every 12 months, Michael rounds up the initiatives that gained probably the most reputation on GitHub within the prior 12 months. Rocketing to #1 is the shadcn/ui suite of React elements, however there are numerous recent entries. Bun and Subsequent.js keep on the listing, whereas htmx and Drizzle ORM make their first appearances within the prime ten.

Michael Rambeau et al.

Let’s Convey Again JavaScript’s with Assertion..? — Famously roasted in JavaScript: The Good Elements earlier than its deprecation, with isn’t a preferred language characteristic in any respect, so Alex’s attraction right here is partly tongue in cheek. Nonetheless, with has some doubtlessly fascinating makes use of in fashionable JavaScript.

Alex MacArthur

Making Sense of ‘Mindless’ JavaScript Options — We’ve tackled with (above), now Juan Diego Rodriguez seems to be at a number of different seemingly “absurd” JS eccentricities, explains how they got here into existence, and tries that can assist you keep away from the issues they trigger.

Juan Diego Rodriguez

Introduction to HTMX — htmx is an fascinating library for imbuing your HTML with dynamic performance in a light-weight, dependency-free means.

Refine

Plotteus: A JavaScript Library for Knowledge Storytelling — Appears to be like to be a robust answer not only for creating static visualizations (graphs, plots, and many others.) however interactive ones that visualize information adjustments through scrolling, UI controls, or different consumer interactions.

Bartosz Prusinowski