Digging into explicit resource management

Prettier 3.1 Released — The popular opinionated code formatter has a new release including support for the new control flow syntax in Angular 17 plus a new, experimental formatting option for ternary expressions (as in x ? y : z) explained in more depth in “A curious case of the ternaries.”

Alex Rattray

On HTML Web Components — “With web components, you might even say React’s component model is being ported to the browser. But it’s being done in a way that works to enhance how the web already works, not replace it”.

Jim Nielsen

A Review of Lightweight JavaScript Frameworks — This overview is targeted at Django (i.e. Python) developers but if you, too, want to avoid larger frameworks like React or Angular, you might appreciate this look at numerous alternatives from Stimulus and htmx to more oblique options like Laravel Livewire.

Michael Yin

67 Browser-Based Debugging Tricks — A list of useful, ‘not-obvious’ hacks to get the most out of the browser’s DevTools. Assumes a reasonable existing understanding of said tools.

Alan Norbauer

Exploring V8’s Strings: Implementation and Optimizations — Note: This is very technical and most JavaScript developers do not need to go this deep. That aside, this is a fantastic look under the covers of how the V8 engine handles strings, including the optimizations used that allow it to go toe to toe with languages like C++.

Ilia Pozdnyakov

JavaScript Scratchpad for VS Code — Quokka.js is the #1 tool for exploring/testing JavaScript with edit-continue experience to see realtime execution and runtime values.

Wallaby Team

Moving Back to React (from Preact) — Preact felt like a logical, lightweight choice to this team at one time, but they’ve switched to React for better compatibility with Next.js, among other things. Their page weight is up slightly, but they feel the tradeoff is worth it.

Ante Barić (Daily․Dev)

My Journey to 3x Faster Builds: Trimming Barrel File Imports — “I maintain a small frontend application (4K LOC) which uses Vite as the compiler. The production build, using npm run build, was taking 26 secs on Github Actions. It seemed awfully slow for such a small application. I decided to investigate why.”

Ramana Venkata

Can Bun Eat Node’s ‘Lunch’? — An experiment in migrating a codebase (a restaurant voting app called Lunch) from Node over to Bun and seeing how it fares.

Jeffrey Carl Faden

gsplat.js: A Gaussian Splatting Library — Gaussian splatting is an increasingly popular graphics rendering techniques where rather than render millions of tiny, textured triangles in a scene, you get a more wild paintball-like splatter fest, where each paintball creates a smooth, colorful blob instead of a rigid shape. This demo is both simple and striking.

Dylan Ebert

Datasheet Grid: An Airtable-like React Component — If you’ve got an array of objects and you want a way for users to manipulate them, this is for you. It’s not going to replace a spreadsheet or an extensive data grid framework, but it’s a mature solution featuring smooth animations, virtualized rows/columns, keyboard navigation, and more.

Nicolas Keller