Tag: javascript

ES2021 approved by Ecma

June 25, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

▶  Coding Up a Mario Game in JavaScript with Kaboom.js — Ania is back showing us how to create a basic platformer in the course of an hour in her typically breezy, easy to follow manner. Watch this if you want to reignite that coding spark. Ania Kubów…

Node 16.4.0 released

June 24, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

Learn to Build Scalable React Apps — Brian Holt covers the latest tools in the React ecosystem like TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Redux, Jest, and more in this new and updated video course! Frontend Masters ApostropheCMS 3.0 Released — The latest release of a fully featured MIT-licensed Node.js-based…

What you need to know about React 18

June 18, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

Benchmarking JavaScript Memory Usage — Historically, memory usage hasn’t been a heavily tracked thing in the JavaScript world, whether for a lack of tooling or motivation. This is changing, and new tools and APIs are turning up all the time. Here, Tim has done some…

A better HTTP client for Node

June 17, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

Undici 4.0: An HTTP Client, Written from Scratch for Node — The goal of this project has been to replace Node’s core HTTP library with something faster, more scalable, and without the ‘fundamental design issues’ of the core API. v4 introduces redirect support, a faster…

Vue.js 3.1 released

June 11, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

Learn to Build Scalable React Apps — Brian Holt covers the latest tools in the React ecosystem like TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Redux, Jest, and more in this new and updated video course! Frontend Masters Introducing Chrome’s New Memory Inspector — Landing in Chrome 91’s DevTools is the…

Svelte for the experienced React developer

June 4, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

Making JavaScript Run Fast on WebAssembly — Twenty years ago, JavaScript had a reputation of being rather slow but a huge amount of time, money and research went into making it incredibly fast in the browser. Now, the Bytecode Alliance is supporting work to do…

RIP Node 15, we hardly knew ye..

June 3, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

Electron 13.0 Released — Maybe 13 is unlucky for some, but lucky for you if you have cross-platform desktop apps to build with Node! Version 13 gets you onto Chromium 91 (reading files from the clipboard seems to be a new possibility..), Node 14.16, and…

V8 finds another 5-15% performance boost

May 28, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

Sparkplug: V8’s Non-Optimizing JavaScript Compiler — When you wonder just where the V8 team will pull out a few more % of performance improvements, they come up with something :-). Their new ‘super-fast non-optimizing compiler’ in V8 v9.1 sits in between the existing interpreter and…

Imagine Node running in the browser..

May 27, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

▶  How To Create Your First Flow in Node-RED — Node-RED is a browser-based ‘flow’ programming environment that uses Node.js under the hood and is particularly popular in enterprise IoT systems but works at small scale too. This hour long screencast presents a thorough introduction into…