Writing shell scripts with JavaScript

zx: A Tool for Writing Better Shell Scripts — Tired of turning to bash, Python or Ruby to throw together a quick script? Stick with the JavaScript you know and love – this makes it easier with some handy functions for calling other programs, processing their output and results, changing directory, etc.

Google

AWS Introduces ‘CloudFront Functions’ — Think (very) short running JavaScript functions right within Amazon CloudFront designed to rewrite, redirect, or otherwise work with incoming requests.

Amazon Web Services

Dependency Managers Don’t Manage Your Dependencies — Christoph Nakazawa has kicked off a new series on JavaScript infrastructure by putting the role of tools like npm, Yarn, or pnpm into context and explaining how you can begin to ‘take ownership’ of your dependencies.

Christoph Nakazawa

Mantine: A New React Component Library — An MIT licensed, TypeScript-based collection of around 60 components and hooks with native dark theme support and a focus on usability and accessibility. Plenty of documentation and examples – we like it. Oh, and they work with Preact too.

Mantine Team

Spotlight: A Lightbox Gallery Library — We first linked to this two years ago when it was new, now it’s more mature and boasts as being the ‘most easy to integrate’ lightbox gallery with no dependencies either. Demos here.

Nextapps GmbH

Fx: A Command-Line JSON Processing Tool — If you’ve got some files full of JSON that you want to process, Fx will slice and dice it however you want, including using JavaScript one-liners to add a bit of logic to the process.

Anton Medvedev