New JavaScript features of the past few years

JavaScript Features from the Past Few Years — Packed with examples, this post tackles the changes and tweaks to JavaScript and TypeScript over the past several years (some as far back as ES6/ES2015, like tagged template literals).

Linus Schlumberger

Astro’s 2023 Web Framework Performance Report — The folks working on Astro looked at data from thousands of sites to understand how sites built around Astro, Gatsby, Next.js, Nuxt, Remix, SvelteKit and WordPress perform on common Web performance metrics. Shipping less JS equals more performance.

Fred Schott (Astro)

TypeScript’s Migration to Modules — TypeScript has restructured its codebase to use ES modules. For this, we get smaller package sizes, quicker build times, and little disruption to end users. A CommonJS API is provided for now so that build scripts don’t break. This post goes deep in to what the move entailed.

Daniel Rosenwasser and Jake Bailey

Common Beginner Mistakes with React — Experienced React educator Josh has seen all the problems people encounter and here he digs into “9 of the most dastardly gotchas” and how to resolve them.

Josh W Comeau

How to Make Slow React Native Apps Faster — The folks over at Retool recently released an app to build native apps in a similar way to Web-based ones. This post covers a few optimizations they made to make it app faster.

James Lee (Retool)

Chrono: A Natural Language Date Parser — Give it a string like “today”, “last Friday”, “2 weeks from now”, or even an entire date and time, and it’ll come up with a date object to suit.

Wanasit Tanakitrungruang