Web Development recap for week 48/2023

From 27/11/2023 to 3/12/2023

Articles #

• Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates 981 comments in 6 discussions

• You don't need JavaScript for that 513 comments in 8 discussions

• Squeeze the hell out of the system you have 480 comments in 4 discussions

• Writing Javascript without a build system 423 comments in 10 discussions

• Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queries per second on MySQL 399 comments in 3 discussions

• Just normal web things. 366 comments in 5 discussions

• Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-In 341 comments in 3 discussions

• Prettier $20k bounty to rewrite in Rust was claimed 341 comments in 2 discussions

• Kafka is dead, long live Kafka 312 comments in 2 discussions

• Stop building databases 302 comments in 2 discussions

• A horrifying globalThis polyfill in universal JavaScript (2019) 282 comments in 4 discussions

• 10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped The Internet 276 comments in 4 discussions

• A good engineer thinks like a product manager 216 comments in 2 discussions

• Sveltekit + Pocketbase + Marmot = ❤️ 201 comments in 9 discussions

• Have a side project and feel overwhelmed by all the choices out there. Want input and will buy a pizza for the highest recommended implementation. 160 comments in 3 discussions

Releases #

• Simplism v0.0.6 🪲 [beetle] released

• wasmer-sdk 0.3.0 released

• Emscripten 3.1.50 released

• Oqtane 5.0.0 released - Build interactive web UI using C# instead of JavaScript - Supports Blazor WebAssembly

• Wasmtime 15.0.1 released

Projects #

• Great examples of multi-language flask apps? looking for inspiration 523 comments in 15 discussions

• You Don't Need JavaScript 159 comments in 6 discussions

• Refine is our open-source React Framework or building CRUD apps like internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps. We've written it TypeScript and would love your feedback! 96 comments in 12 discussions

• container2wasm is a container-to-wasm image converter that enables to run the container on WASM 70 comments in 1 discussion

• NPMprune: remove unnecessary files from node_modules to optimize storage 53 comments in 2 discussions

• Surfingkeys: Supercharged Vimium with JavaScript Support 46 comments in 3 discussions

• Major Update to React Starter Kit: Welcome Joy UI and Jotai! 45 comments in 4 discussions

• Just reached 100+ ⭐ stars on GitHub for my React Native Boilerplate made with Expo + React Native + Tailwind CSS/NativeWind + TypeScript + ESLint + Prettier + E2E Testing 21 comments in 3 discussions

• Guys, have I gone too far? - POC of a federated application using HTMX & NGINX 17 comments in 1 discussion

• I made a library to help simplify complex DynamoDB techniques 16 comments in 3 discussions

Videos #

• Interview with Senior JavaScript Developer [video] 523 comments in 5 discussions

• HTMX Announced as Framework of the Year 25 comments in 1 discussion

• Ben McCann - enhanced:img, handling images in Svelte and Kit 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Demo of page refreshes with morphing (Turbo 8) 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Simple Typescript Pattern - Discriminated Unions, Perfect for frontend state types 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Tutorial on coding CSS with an emphasis on good looking design. Deconstructing Interfaces: feyapp.com

• Wasm Is Becoming the Runtime for LLMs