Parcel.js 2.2 and Eleventy 1.0

January 14, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

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JavaScript Developer Breaks Two Popular npm Packages — The creator of Faker.js and colors.js, two packages we’ve mentioned quite often, made some unorthodox commits to his projects recently that caused them to either disappear or break in ‘interesting’ ways.

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RELEASES:

Billboard.js 3.3 – D3-based charting library.
D3.js 7.3.0 – The powerful data visualization library.
React Date Picker 4.6.0 – You can guess what this is for.
Handsontable 11.1 – Data grid / spreadsheet JS component.
Elk 2.2 – Low footprint JS engine for embedded systems.
Shaka Player 3.3 – JS library to play DASH, HLS and more.
Jan 10th Node.js Security Releases – Affecting all major lines.

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How Not to Learn TypeScript“Learning TypeScript, even in 2022, can be frustrating it seems,” notes the author who reflects on five common mistakes TypeScript newcomers make (so that you can avoid them yourself!)

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