JavaScript

Essential TypeScript 4: From Beginner to Pro (2021) Learn the essentials and more of TypeScript, a popular superset of the JavaScript language that adds support for static typing. Adam Freeman

How To Code in React.js eBook (2021) This book is an introduction to React that works from the foundations upward. Each chapter takes you a little deeper into the React ecosystem, building on your previous knowledge. Joe Morgan

Most of the complaints about JavaScript come from people who don't know JavaScript 👀 Here's why! ERICK WENDEL

ARTICLES & TUTORIALS 📄 A better way to Learn JavaScript NAIRI HARUTYUNYAN 📄 5 Ways to Speed Up Frontend Development FERNANDO DOGLIO 📄The const 'Deception' If the exact role of const has confused you in the past, this will be a handy primer that digs into the distinction between “assignment” and “mutation” in JavaScript. JOSH W COMEAU 📄 Write Better CSS by Borrowing Ideas from JS A curious look at taking best practices from the JavaScript space for writing better CSS. YAPHI BERHANU 📄 The Interactive Guide to Rendering in React An interactive, illustrated guide exploring why, when and how React renders, complete with a series of well thought out animations. RAUNO FREIBERG

MAJOR RELEASES Capacitor 5.0 Build cross-platform native PWAs. Node.js v20.1.0 (Current) pnpm 8.4 Efficient package manager. React Native macOS 0.71 Electron 24.2

IN BRIEF 📜 The Deno team just released fastwebsockets — but with a name like that, I have no idea what it does or at what speed it does it. 📜 Next 13.4 was just released to much fanfare. App Router is now stable, Turbopack is now in beta, and Server Actions are now in Alpha. 📜 Amelia Wattenberger wrote a good article about Why Chatbots Are Not the Future.

🗞 Issue 2 / 05.05.2023 📄 Angular v16 Released It is touted as the "biggest release since the initial rollout of Angular". The new version brings exciting features such as a preview of a new signals-based reactivity model (known as Angular Signals), better interoperability with RxJS, enhanced server-side rendering (SSR) and hydration, experimental esbuild support, Jest unit testing, and several other improvements. MINKO GECHEV 📄 Qwik Reaches v1.0 In “other big JS frameworks that aren’t React” news, Qwik has hit a major milestone too. Qwik’s selling point remains performance through serving up as little code as needed on initial page load. “Think of it as streaming for your JavaScript,” they say. Nonetheless, you get the JSX, directory-based routing, and middleware options you may be familiar with. QWIK TEAM ©️JS WEEKLY

JavaScript from Beginner to Professional (2021) Learn JavaScript Quickly by Building Fun, Interactive, and Dynamic Web Apps, Games, and Pages Rob Percival, Maaike van Putten, Laurence Lars Svekis