December 3, 2024

JSter #232 - Libraries and more

You’re playing it safe, just waiting for me to JavaScript up.

Only a couple of weeks until xmas. It's a good time to pick up advent of code.

Articles

• If Not React, Then What?

Guides

• Welcome to the world of Statecharts

Techniques

• Anchor Positioning Is Disruptive
• Building data-centric apps with a reactive relational database
• Rendering performant Sanity.io images

Frameworks

• Mastra - The TypeScript AI framework
• better-auth: The most comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript

Libraries

• JonasKruckenberg/imagetools: Load and transform images using a toolbox of custom import directives!
• humanwhocodes/crosspost: A JavaScript utility for posting across multiple social networks at once
• React Router v7
• nanostores - A tiny (286 bytes) state manager for React/RN/Preact/Vue/Svelte with many atomic tree-shakable stores

Books

• Adactio: Journal—Going Offline is online for free

Tools

• Vite 6.0 is out!
• Deno 2.1: Wasm Imports and other enhancements
• Announcing TypeScript 5.7