August 4, 2025

JSter #246 - Libraries and more

To JavaScript or to not JavaScript

Another month, another list of links to explore.

Libraries

• unnoq/mini-orpc: Simplified implementation of oRPC that includes essential features to help you understand the core concepts
• kettanaito/rettime: A type-safe marriage of EventTarget and EventEmitter.
• fabian-hiller/formisch: The modular and type-safe form library for any framework
• stan-smith/OpenFLOW: Make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams

Frameworks

• Layer Cake is a graphics framework for Svelte
• Next.js 15.4

History

• The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade
• The History of React Through Code

Techniques

• It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
• A handy use of subgrid to enhance a simple layout
• Taming JS Proxy API
• Simple live reload for developing static sites
• An email regex for reasonable people
• Give footnotes the boot
• Next.js Promise Racing
• Resilient Import Maps - Better Theme Development and Beyond (2025)
• Tips for making regular expressions easier to use in JavaScript

Tools

• JoviDeCroock/preact-mcp - MCP server for Preact ecosystem
• fx – a terminal JSON viewer & processor
• lirantal/npq: safely install npm packages by auditing them pre-install stage
• ArnaudBarre/tsl: An extension of tsc for type-aware linting
• Deno 2.4: deno bundle is back
• Announcing TypeScript 5.9

Articles

• Tapas Spent 40 Hours Writing Tests That Broke in 2 Weeks — A Confession Story
• JavaScript dos and donts

Magazines

• WebAssembly - ACM Queue

Security

• Active Supply Chain Attack: npm Phishing Campaign Leads to Prettier Tooling Packages Compromise

Quiz

• The JavaScript Date Quiz

Opinions

• Why React Is No Longer the Undisputed Champion of JavaScript
• Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens
• The time is right for a DOM templating API

Components

• DavidHDev/react-bits: An open source collection of animated, interactive & fully customizable React components for building stunning, memorable websites.