Svelte 4 released

June 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

UnsuckJS: Comparing Lightweight JavaScript Options — “No build tools, no compilers, and no hassle.” It’s a table of frontend JavaScript libraries on a simple page – that’s it! But it’s a handy table, letting you see the relative popularity, size, and latest versions of libraries as diverse as Preact, bau, htmx, Hyperapp, and Mithril.

Adam Hill

🤔 Claudio Holanda’s ‘Thoughts on Svelte(Kit), one year and 3 billion requests later‘ provides some interesting balance to our cheerleading.

The Complete UI Component Library For Enterprise Web Apps — A professional UI component library with power widgets like data grid, calendar, scheduler & Gantt charts. Includes API docs, guides and an unreasonable amount of demos to play with. Seamlessly integrates with React, Angular, Vue & Salesforce apps.

Bryntum

A Look at TypeScript 5.2’s New Keyword: using — using brings something akin to Python’s with context management into TypeScript by providing a way to automatically run a Symbol.dispose function when an object leaves scope. You could use this to shut down database connections, close file handles, etc.

Matt Pocock

If you’re not a TS fan, the idea behind using is also an ECMAScript proposal (currently at stage 3) called Explicit Resource Management and there’s more detail to enjoy in their examples.

⚡️ IN BRIEF:

The Register reports malicious actors are exploiting expired S3 buckets to inject harmful code into legitimate npm packages without needing to modify existing code.
Fresh, a Deno-first full-stack Web framework, has a new release in the shape of Fresh 1.2. There have been some concerns over its maintenance, but now there’s a new full-time maintainer, Marvin Hagemeister, and a lot of promise on the horizon. Welcome Marvin!

📒 Articles & Tutorials

▶ Recreating a JS Runtime to Understand Node’s Magic — Popular speaker, educator, Microsoft MVP and Node.js core team member Erick gives a very enthusiastic talk on the latest ‘hello world’ in the JavaScript world: building a runtime 😏 Somehow, Erick manages to run through the key concepts involved in just 20 minutes.

Erick Wendel

E-Commerce Simplified — A practical guide to building your Store with Storyblok, Commercetools, and React.js.

Storyblok

Positioning Anchored Popovers — Popovers are commonly positioned relative to their invoker — but when using the new popover attribute, anchoring can be tricky as these popovers are placed in the top layer, away from the context of their invoker. Hidde looks at options to resolve this.

Hidde de Vries

🛠 Code & Tools

💡 An SBOM is a “software bill of materials” – essentially an inventory of dependencies and components that make up an application, as Liran Tal explains.

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