Things People Get Wrong About Electron — A long-time maintainer of the wildly successful Electron cross-platform app framework stands by the technical choices Electron has made over the years and defends it against some of the more common criticisms here.
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A WebAssembly Compiler That Fits in a Tweet — Or 192 bytes, if you prefer. This is a look into a fantastic little bit of JavaScript hacking that can compile arithmetic expressions into WebAssembly you can run very easily. You can learn a lot in so little time here.
Mariano Guerra and Patrick Dubroy
Announcing TypeScript 5.8 Beta — It’s that time again. What’s new? Support for using require() for ES modules in Node 22+, checked returns for conditional and indexed access types, startup and building optimizations & more. While not a huge release overall, it’s particularly good for Node devs.
Daniel Rosenwasser
💡 One neat 5.8 feature is --erasableSyntaxOnly, a way to ensure that ‘type stripping’ techniques still result in runnable code by disallowing TypeScript-exclusive features like enums.
There’s been a lot of chatter about Create React App being effectively ‘deprecated’ due to a lack of updates from Meta. Turns out, it is deprecated, but the process is now being managed gracefully and some basic React 19 support will be merged in.
The Modern Way to Write JavaScript Servers — The irony is that while Node popularized JavaScript on the server (though Netscape was doing it in the 90s) this modern, standardized cross-runtime approach doesn’t work on Node …yet 😉
Marvin Hagemeister
Introducing Mentoss: The fetch Mocker — A new approach to mocking global fetch() calls (in both browsers and server-side runtimes) inspired by previous attempts like Nock and MSW.
📄 Computing with Tuples in TypeScript – A way to bring objects of different types together but in a lighter way than keyed objects. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
📊Plotly 3.0: A JavaScript Graphing Library — A high-level, declarative charting library, built on top of D3 and stack.gl, with over 40 chart types, including 3D charts, statistical graphs, and SVG maps. v3 is largely to remove deprecations, fix bugs, and a switch to esbuild.
DBOS Transact v2: Lightweight Durable Execution in TypeScript — Durable execution means persisting the execution state of your program while it runs, so if it’s interrupted or crashes, it resumes from where it left off – ideal for long-running or business-critical workflows. Docs.
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Ruck 9.0: A React Webapp Framework for Deno — A lean React-based way to build modern React apps with Deno using features like ESM, dynamic imports, HTTP imports, and import maps with no transpilation or bundling.
