Episode 154

2/20/2021

Getting started

Taming Environments with Volta, the Hassle-Free JavaScript Tool Manager
Let’s Build a Todo App with Deno
Accessing hardware devices on the web
How to Create a Hybrid NPM Module for ESM and CommonJS
Avoiding npm substitution attacks
Learn Snowpack: A High-Performance Frontend Build Tool

Articles & News

The best JavaScript date libraries in 2021
Interview with Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave (Video)
Super fast `super` property access [in V8]
Faster JavaScript calls [in V8]
'It's where the industry is heading': LibreOffice team working on WebAssembly port
Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js

Tips, tricks & bit-sized awesomeness

[Dr. Axel Rauschmayer's] “Tackling TypeScript” is now free to read online
Introducing adaptive notification requests in Microsoft Edge
WebAssembly SIMD proposal reached phase 4
Linux Foundation offers free Node.js class
NASA used Three.js for a realtime simulation of Mars rover landing

Releases

Vite 2.0
Node v15.9.0

Libs & demos

cube-composer
fjb
blazepack
under-pressure
scully
tauri
gutenberg
skyline.github.com

Interesting & silly stuff

Crypto-mining attack in my GitHub actions through Pull Request
Functorio