Tag: javascript

That’s so fetch

February 3, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

‘How I Reversed a Node.js Malware and Found The Author’ — Someone was sending messages to people on the author’s Discord server encouraging them to download and run a nefarious .exe file.. which turned out to be a packaged up Node.js app. Here’s the rest…

Etsy moved from React to Preact

January 28, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Take the State of JavaScript 2022 Survey — Now several years in, the popular State of JavaScript survey returns for a joint 2021/22 run and, as ever, seeks to establish what libraries and frameworks developers are excited about. It’s not a perfect approach, but the…

Doing the opposite of Jim Cramer with Node

January 27, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Trilium Notes: A Knowledge Base App Built with Node — A hierarchical note taking app. Built as an Express app but most commonly used on the desktop via an Electron packaged version. It’s been around a few years but continues to see frequent updates and…

NaNNaNNaNNaN Batman

January 21, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

⁉️ If the subject of this issue has got you confused, it’s a reference to the infamous Wat video of 2012 which we mention a couple of times in the issue today 🙂__Peter Cooper, your editor TypeScript Features to Avoid? — Remember Gary Bernardt’s Wat…

Eleventy 1.0

January 20, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Remix vs Next.js — While this is a comparison written by the Remix team, it seems open about its methodology and tries to be fair in its comparison. The comparison (and sometimes implicit criticism) of Jamstack has been a Remix talking point – not entirely…

Advanced TypeScript Editing Features in CodeLobster IDE

January 15, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

There are many truly minimalistic TypeScript editors on the software market. But developers get a much greater advantage when TypeScript support is already integrated into their IDE. If you are not a fan of open source tools, you do not have time to learn all…

Parcel.js 2.2 and Eleventy 1.0

January 14, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Retool Is the Fast Way to Build Internal Tools — Visually design apps that interface with any database or API. Switch to code nearly anywhere to customize how your apps look and work. With Retool, you ship more apps and move your business forward—all in…

📦 Broken packages

January 13, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

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 which resulted in GitHub suspending his…

The rising stars of JS in 2021

January 7, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

2021’s JavaScript Rising Stars — Back for the 6th year running is this popular look at JavaScript projects that have continued to be popular on GitHub. Stars aren’t the only way to determine what projects are good, but it’s one way, and we tend to…

The JavaScript 2021 megamix

December 24, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

The Best of JavaScript Weekly in 2021 This is the last issue of the year (we’re back on January 7, 2022) so we’re taking a look back at some of the most popular items of 2021, starting with top links overall before moving on to top…