JS CC Digest

The delete operator is arguably an old language feature of JavaScript. As it literally means, it wants to destroy something, but what exactly can be destroyed?

It has long been a bone of contention that Oracle owns the trademark for ‘JavaScript’ (we put out a call two years ago) but this marks the first serious effort to try and change that, including petitioning the USPTO, if necessary. You can support the effort by signing this open letter, joining a vast array of JavaScript luminaries.

The seminal Node.js webapp library seemed to take a nap for a few years, but development was reinvigorated earlier this year. v5.0 brings a variety of modern tweaks and dependency updates, though it's still tagged next at the npm registry.

The latest TypeScript has landed with full support for iterator helpers, support for arbitrary module identifiers, --noUncheckedSideEffectImports to import modules without importing any values, and more — all covered in the always thorough release post.

Dependency-free, full-text and vector search engine for all JS runtimes, with typo tolerance, filters, facets, stemming, and more.

From Kent C Dodds of Epic React fame comes this part cheat sheet, part succinct reminder of some of the new things you can do in React 19, along with (very) brief code examples.

In 2024, Angular keeps changing for better with ever increasing pace, but the big picture remains the same, which makes architecture know-how timeless and well worth your time!

Covers everything you need to know right through to publishing in the Chrome Web Store.

This guide covers some modern web performance features of Chrome DevTools, with a focus on the new Performance Panel features which helps you optimize Core Web Vitals and improve your general web performance.