January 5, 2024

JSter #210 - Libraries and more

JavaScript doesn't mind cold.

New year, new cold records.

Libraries

• trekhleb/micrograd-ts: 🤖 A TypeScript version of karpathy/micrograd — a tiny scalar-valued autograd engine and a neural net on top of it
• gregberge/twc: Create reusable React + Tailwind components in one line
• tr1ckydev/webview-bun: Bun bindings for webview, a tiny library for creating web-based desktop GUIs.
• date-fns v3 is available now
• WebGPU — All of the cores, none of the canvas

Frameworks

• CableReady - Create complex apps driven by a server
• Announcing SvelteKit 2

Articles

• Sending UI over APIs
• Breaking Up with SVG-in-JS in 2023

Techniques

• Mark's Experience on Modernizing Packages to ESM
• The Future of Native HTML Templating and Data Binding
• Extracting Pokemon Red/Blue Map with JavaScript
• Running 1000 tests in 1s
• Sass in the Browser

React

• React Server Components: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• Announcing React Hydration Overlay - Easily Squash Hydration Errors

Tutorials

• Let’s learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one
• Building an AI powered WebGL experience with Supabase and React Three Fiber

TypeScript

• TypeScript's Hidden Feature: Subtypes
• TS Docs - Reference docs for npm packages

Papers

• Paper - Upcoming JavaScript web frameworks and their techniques

Tools

• projen - A new generation of project generators