Best Headless CMS for Vue: The Top 7 Choices
A headless content management system (CMS) is a software platform that provides the same capabilities as a traditional CMS but without its interface. This can be useful when you want to use your own front-end technology or framework with your website.
Douglas Crockford calls JavaScript ‘smelly.’
#642 — June 8, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Polywasm: A Polyfill to Run WASM in JS Environments — The creator of esbuild is back with something fresh: a polyfill that uses live translation to be able to run .wasm files in JS environments that either lack a WebAssembly implementation or have it […]
Measuring latency from the client side using Chrome DevTools and N|Solid
Almost every modern web browser includes a powerful suite of developer tools. In our previous blog-post we covered __How to Measure Node.js server response time with N|Solid__, read more 👉 HERE. The developer tools have a lot of capabilities, from inspecting the current HTML-CSS and Javascript code to inspecting the current ongoing network communication client-server. […]
Bundle-time macros with Bun
#641 — June 1, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript Macros in Bun — Not content with giving the JavaScript world a brand new bundler, Bun’s Jarred has taken it a bit further: ‘macros’ that run at bundle time with the result being directly inlined into your code. They use stage 3 annotated […]
Measure Node.js server response time with N|Solid
As software developers, we constantly face new challenges in an ever-changing ecosystem. However, we must always remember the importance of addressing performance and security concerns, which remain at the top of our priority list. To ensure that our applications based on Node.js can meet our performance and scalability needs without compromising security or incurring costly […]
Microsoft shrunk the TypeScript
#640 — May 25, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny Thingamabobs — DeviceScript is a new Microsoft effort to take the TypeScript experience to low-resource microcontroller-based devices. It’s compiled to a custom VM bytecode which can run in such constrained environments. (A bit like Go’s TinyGo.) It’s aimed at VS […]
jQuery lives on; major changes teased
#639 — May 18, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Bun’s New Bundler: 220x Faster than webpack? — Bun is one of the newest JavaScript runtimes (built atop the JavaScriptCore engine) and focuses on speed while aiming to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js. This week’s v0.6.0 release is the ‘biggest release yet’ with […]
Why Svelte is converting TypeScript to JSDoc
#638 — May 11, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The JavaScript Ecosystem is Delightfully Weird — There are plenty of examples of how JavaScript is weird but Sam focuses on the why. If you’ve been a JS developer for many years you’ll have seen it go through many phases and morph to fit […]
‘It’s a miracle anything about this ecosystem works at all.’
#637 — May 4, 2023 Read on the Web Psst.. if you’re wondering about the context of today’s subject line, see the first ⚡️ In Brief. JavaScript™ Weekly Angular v16 Released — With the “biggest release since the initial rollout of Angular”, v16 of the extensive framework introduces a preview of a new signals-based reactivity model (a.k.a. […]
Oracle’s lawyers on JavaScript™
#636 — April 27, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript™ Weekly Babylon.js 6.0: The Powerful Web-Based 3D Framework — Babylon.js remains one of the world’s leading WebGL-based graphics engines with a visual scene builder and best-in-class physically-based rendering. v6.0 includes a new physics plugin with plenty of docs and demos, fluid rendering, major improvements to […]
NodeForest Status Report – Earth Day Project
In an effort to mitigate our environmental impact and increase awareness among Nodesourcers, NodeSource collaborated with Pal/Projectability to conduct a tree-planting activity in 2022. The initiative was a resounding success, resulting in the planting of a forest called __NodeForest__, which exceeded the original target by 52%. Read the previous blog-post here 🌳👉 https://nodesource.com/blog/Nodeforest-experience Ensuring the […]
