JS CC Digest

A huge release for the “what if I reinvented Node again from scratch?” runtime. Backwards compatibility with Node is a headline feature, but there’s a lot more baked in. After a slightly bombastic opener, Ryan presents a fantastic ‘keynote’ style tour of everything Deno has to offer.

Over the past few months, Josh's been working on a brand new version of his blog. A couple of weeks ago, he flipped the switch! Here’s a quick side-by-side.

While Vercel is a great option for deploying Next.js apps, sometimes you might want to deploy your app to your own server in order to save costs or simply to have more control over your infrastructure.

Categorized and searchable, these are tested daily by bots so if any API is taken down or moved behind a paywall, it's removed from the site.

Examples of numerous common algorithms (e.g. bit manipulation, Pascal’s triangle, Hamming distance) and data structures (e.g. linked lists, tries, graphs) with explanations.

A tutorial that brings together a lot of ideas in one place. CLIP is used to turn images into text descriptions. Postgres is used as a vector database. JavaScript provides the glue for both the frontend (with React) and backend (Node.js).

In a rather quirky slidedeck presented at TC39 recently, an idea was floated to call the language JS engines implement ‘JS0’ and a myriad of features that have to be compiled to JS0 ‘JSSugar’.

The architects behind the development of the ECMAScript / JavaScript spec got together again this week and they had a packed agenda. Import attributes, Iterator helpers, Promise.try and Regexp modifiers all made it to stage 4, and more besides.

People talk about htmx as though it’s saving the web from single-page apps. React has mired developers in complexity and htmx is offering a desperately-needed lifeline.

Articles about structuring React apps are always popular; this one breaks the idea down to five steps from the simplest of apps to more complex ones. Bulletproof React is worth a look too for something broader.