Polyfills gone rogue

#​503 — September 26, 2023 Read on the Web Speeding up the JavaScript Ecosystem: Polyfills Gone Rogue? — Marvin has been on a mission to speed up popular libraries – first blogging about speeding up the JS ecosystem, one library at a time last year. Earlier this year he tackled Read more…

Deno runtime now integrates with Jupyter Notebook

Deno runtime proponents are touting the simplification of software development via the use of Jupyter Notebook in Deno 1.37. This latest version of the runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly also features improved editor support for Visual Studio Code. To read this article in full, please click here

Bun 1.0 is out of the oven

Bun, an all-in-one toolkit for building, testing, debugging, and running JavaScript and TypeScript apps, has reached stable production-ready status as of September 8. Positioned as a drop-in replacement for Node.js, Bun is a single executable intended to eliminate complexity and slowness without tossing away everything that is “great” about JavaScript, Read more…

Node.js upgrade adds environment variable config

Node.js 20.6.0, the latest version of the asynchronous, event-driven JavaScript runtime, includes built-in 1env. file support for configuring environment variables. The update, cited as the “current” version of Node.js and announced September 4, can be downloaded from the project website. With 1env. , Node.js proponents said the configuration file should follow Read more…