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JSR isn’t another tool, it’s a fundamental shift

April 25, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

JSR is Not Another Package Manager — When Ryan created Node, JavaScript had no packages or standard module system. npm and CommonJS took off, and tools like Yarn or pnpm extended npm in certain areas, but in today’s ES modules era, it’s time for a transformation. JSR is not merely a new npm, but a shift in how packages are distributed, tailored for the modern era.

Ryan Dahl

Node.js v22 (Current) Released — The newest, cutting edge, major version of Node lands with some key enhancements. v22 becomes the new ‘current’ release (becoming active LTS in October). It adds support for require-ing ESM, gets a built-in WebSocket client, upgrades to V8 12.4, and includes a task runner (e.g. node --run task_name). This blog post takes a closer look.

Rafael Gonzaga

💡 If you’re a Node developer, be sure to subscribe to Node Weekly as well, where we go into more depth of server-side JavaScript each week.

Lydia Hallie Tests Your JavaScript Knowledge — Challenge your core knowledge with 50 interactive quiz questions covering topics like the event loop, scopes and closures, classes and prototypes, garbage collection, and more. After each question, you’ll get an in-depth visual explanation from Lydia to deepen your understanding of fundamental JS concepts.

Frontend Masters

pnpm 9.0: The Efficiency-Focused Package Manager — pnpm has long been a fantastic option for folks looking to save disk space and CPU cycles (or for its great monorepo support) while maintaining most of what makes npm great. v9.0 drops Node 16 and 17 compatibility, honors the packageManager field in package.json, makes some default config changes, and adopts Lockfile v9.

pnpm

IN BRIEF:

  • 🙈 Yesterday was JS Naked Day, a day to go entirely without JavaScript. Sadly we missed it.. 😏

  • 🇫🇷 dotJS 2024 is a JavaScript conference taking place in Paris, France on June 27. The speaker roster so far is pretty compelling.

  • rcompat is an interesting JS interoperability and runtime compatibility layer for servers, so you can avoid the differences between Node, Deno and Bun.

RELEASES:

📒 Articles & Tutorials

A Tale of Migrating a Project to Bun — Eric, an engineer at Render, walks through the steps of how he migrated his Sveld project to Bun (replacing Yarn and Vitest in the process), including some minor gotchas he encountered, and what the speed gains were.

Eric Liu

The Frontend Developer/Engineer Handbook 2024 — A guide to the current webdev landscape, covering how to get up to speed on topics like editors, CSS, UX, UI, the command line, tools and frameworks, perf, accessibility, etc.

Cody Lindley

▶  A Node.js Streams Masterclass — An hour-long odyssey with the creator of Fastify (and Node.js TSC member) into the world of streams. A stream is like an array over time.. we learn, before going into live coding and demos.

Matteo Collina

🛠 Code & Tools

ReScript 11.1 Released with Improved JSX Support — ReScript is an OCaml-inspired, typed language that compiles to JavaScript and has a JSX transform built into the language. JSX support was previously solely for React use cases, but now works with Vue, Preact, and other approaches too.

The ReScript Project

Devalue 5.0: Like JSON.stringify, But.. — “Gets the job done when JSON.stringify can’t.” Namely, it can handle cyclical and repeated references, regular expressions, Map and Set, custom types, and more.

Rich Harris

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