March 2, 2023

JSter #190 - Libraries and more

JavaScript isn't what you think.

It's only three months until Future Frontend conference (6-9.6) in Finland. Exciting times.

Libraries

• ungap/esx - A template literal based ESX proposal
• a11y-dialog - a lightweight yet flexible script to create accessible dialog windows.

Frameworks

• tjkandala/baahu - State machine-based UI framework
• hydroxide-js/hydroxide - Next Generation Reactive JavaScript Framework

TypeScript

• Civet - CoffeeScript for TypeScript
• total-typescript/ts-reset - Resets (filter etc.) for TypeScript

Styling

• Typewind - Typesafe Tailwind
• Stylable - CSS for components
• 98.css - Style like it's 1998

Articles

• Svelte vs React: Which framework to learn in 2023?
• Module Extraction: The Silent Web Revolution
• Why useEffect May Not Be the Best Abstraction
• Streaming, snapshots, and other new features since SvelteKit 1.0
• An Introduction to RedwoodJS
• A Historical Reference of React Criticism
• Is React going anywhere?

Services

• Deploy app servers close to your users

Tools

• Payload CMS
• ArrowJS - an experimental tool for programming reactive interfaces using native JavaScript
• Eleventy v2.0.0 - the major static site generator has reached an important milestone
• Lightning CSS - An extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier

Techniques

• How to split JavaScript strings into sentences, words or graphemes with "Intl.Segmenter"
• Super Charging Fine-Grained Reactive Performance
• Who's your BFF? Rough notes on the popular BFF architecture pattern

Courses

• Free Course: Node.js Full Stack Developer Course

Guides

• A complete guide to iconography