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📌 Issue 27 / 02.08.2023 📄 PythonMonkey: JavaScript/WASM Interop for Python The alpha release of a new way to bring Python and JavaScript together, by way of embedding Mozilla SpiderMonkey into the Python VM. This post introduces the concept with some examples, an idea of where the project is headed, as well as some Colab demos. Despite using SpiderMonkey rather than V8, Node and npm compatibility is important to the project and more Node integration is on its roadmap. GitHub repo. WILL PRINGLE 📄 Speeding Up V8 Heap Snapshots When diagnosing a memory leak in a JavaScript app, engineers at Bloomberg encountered some weird performance issues with capturing a single full-size heapshot taking more than 30 minutes(!) at times. Here’s the full story of how they investigated and resolved the problem, making JS memory analysis faster than ever for all of us. JOSÉ DAPENA PAZ (IGALIA) 🛠 Node.js Toolbox: A Way to Find Node.js Packages Several months ago we featured this brand new project curating Node packages in areas like HTTP frameworks, browser testing and query builders, and it’s continued to go from strength to strength. They’ve recently added a feature to compare the weekly download numbers of packages in each category. MAXIM ORLOV ©️NODE.JS WEEKLY

❓ CHALLENGE #93

😮 Did you know that the Node.js has an async verison of setimmediate

❓ CHALLENGE #92

➡️ Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (2019) Update your skill set for ES 6 and 7 with the ultimate JavaScript guide for pros Professional JavaScript for Web Developers is the essential guide to next-level JavaScript development. .. Matt Frisbie

🤣 A new module every minute

❓ CHALLENGE #91

ESLint Reimagined: Creating a Linter from Scratch Erick Wendel

So true 😂

🎉 RELEASES Bun 0.7 The JavaScriptCore-based alternative JS runtime adds (experimental) Vite support, Web Workers support, and includes a --smol option to run in memory constrained environments (with a significant memory reduction shown off in the post). Astro 2.9 The 'zero JS by default' framework adds experimental support for view transitions and more. Neutralinojs v4.13.0 Lightweight cross-platform desktop app framework. Remix 1.19 Modern full-stack JS framework. Node.js v20.5.0 (Current)

⚡️ IN BRIEF 🐦 React/Redux's Dan Abramov is leaving Meta. Having achieved so much and reaching a point where he feels ready to move on, Dan is departing Meta but will remain on the React team as an independent third party. 💙 📘 The Concise TypeScript Book is, unsurprisingly, a guide to using TypeScript. More surprisingly, it's all on GitHub and free to read. Hurrah. Tixy is an interactive page for learning logic, math and expressions by solving puzzles using a visual grid. It starts off very simply, but gets elaborate quickly. This is a neat way to pick up some of the skills needed for Dwitter. JSPlayground is a new Web-based JavaScript sandbox tool. Is the term 'Jamstack' finished? Brian Rinaldi wonders.