Axios turns 1.0; TypeScript turns 10

‘I Turned JS Into a Compiled Language (for Fun and Wasm)’ — You can never be bored observing Surma’s work which continues to provoke ideas and discussion (such as with Web Workers). Now he’s trying to run JavaScript in WebAssembly, which required turning JavaScript into C++ first. Eek! Good idea? Does it matter? Spoiler: “I think this technique is a dead end” but it’s a neat journey anyway and he explains how AssemblyScript suggests a more promising way forward.

Surma

🎂  Ten Years of TypeScript — Even if you don’t use it, TypeScript’s influence on the JS landscape is significant, and it’s now ten years old. (It was our top feature in issue 99 along with the release of jQuery Mobile 1.2.0! 😏). TypeScript’s PM reflects on how its ideas have stood the test of time and looks forward to another ten years.

Daniel Rosenwasser (Microsoft)

🕹  The js13kGames 2022 Winners — The eleventh annual js13kGames coding competition that challenges participants to create games in 13KB or less of JavaScript has wrapped up and here are the winners. If you have the time, there’s a lot to learn from the shared code, or you could just play the winning game – a surprisingly slick 3D puzzler platformer.

Lee Reilly (GitHub)

The Future of the Web is on the Edge (Says Deno) — Deno is not merely an alternative server-side runtime for JavaScript – it’s at the heart of Deno Deploy, a serverless platform for taking JavaScript ‘to the edge.’ Andy sell us on the benefits of being edgy here while taking a potshot at north Virginia.

Andy Jiang (Deno)

μFuzzy: A Tiny, Efficient Fuzzy Search Library — A search library designed to match a relatively short search phrase (a figurative needle) against a large list of short-to-medium phrases (a figurative haystack) and to do so with low resource usage.

Leon Sorokin

zx 7.1: Google’s Tool for Easier Shell Scripting — The idea is simple: use JavaScript instead of bash or Perl, say. zx smoothes off the rough edges (see the README for examples). v7.1 introduces an --install option to detect and install all imported packages in a script making it even easier.

Google