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You Don't Need Next.js — As much as Next.js is considered the React meta-framework of choice, if your requirements are modest, simply going with plain React offers numerous benefits in terms of simplicity and speed, as seen here.

Introducing Clerk SDKs for Vue and Nuxt — Official @clerk/vue & @clerk/nuxt SDKs for authentication integration with pre-built UI components in Vue/Nuxt apps.

Using TypeScript Without Build Tools — Chris Coyier enjoys the benefits of TypeScript while developing, but actually compiling it to JavaScript in various scenarios is less endearing. We’ve learnt (above) that Node can now run .ts files directly, but what other projects support the use of TypeScript without build tools?

PostalMime: A Universal Email Parsing Library — An email parsing library happy in most JS runtimes. Takes the raw source of emails and parses them into their constituent parts.

trimMiddle(): The Missing String Trim Method? — If you’ve got a long string and want to keep the start and end and truncate in the middle, this is for you. There’s a live demo here and GitHub repo.

Tipex: An Advanced Rich Text Editor for Svelte — Based on the popular Tiptap editor framework, it’s customizable, has theming support, and is Svelte 5-ready. Here’s a live example.

React-Toastify 11: In-Page Notifications Made Easy — There’s an elaborate demo page here but essentially it’s a flexible, easy to style ‘toast’ style notifications system with many years under its belt. GitHub repo.

Electrobun: A New JS Cross-Platform Desktop App Toolkit — A fresh take on the concept covered by Electron and Neutralinojs, except based around Bun. It’s early days, though, with only ARM-based Macs supported for now.

Tagify 4.33: An Elegant Input Component for Tags — The polished demos show a lot of effort has been put in here. GitHub repo.

⭐ 2024's JavaScript Rising Stars — It’s time to fully wave goodbye to 2024, but not before Michael Rambeau’s annual analysis of which JavaScript projects fared best on GitHub over the past year. Even if you dislike GitHub stars as a metric for anything, this remains a great way to get a feel for the JavaScript ecosystem and see what libraries and tools have mindshare...

A Look at Import Attributes — It’s always a pleasure to see Dr. Axel blogging about JavaScript again, and he’s back with one of his typical deep dives into a newer ECMAScript feature: import attributes. This feature provides an inline syntax for attaching metadata to module imports such as for importing non-JavaScript modules (e.g. JSON, WASM or CSS).

How to Enable End-to-End Testing with Synthetic Monitoring — Synthetic Monitoring helps you launch new features with confidence and speed. Learn how you can create robust end-to-end test suites, spend less time on false positives, and proactively catch errors before they get to production.

Node’s New Built-in Support for TypeScript — Node.js v23.6.0 (Current) has just been released and makes Node’s new type-stripping features work by default, so you can just run node file.ts and it Should Just Work™. Dr. Axel explains how it works and what the limitations are.

The Future of htmx — htmx is an increasingly popular way to enhance HTML and actually write less JavaScript on the frontend. This post reflects on how htmx would like to be ‘the new jQuery’, not least in the sense that one of the project’s goals is to push the ideas of htmx into the HTML standard itself, as in this set of proposals.

Complete Intro to React v9: New Project, Modern Stack — Join Brian Holt in building a pizza delivery app from scratch. Master hooks, TanStack Router, testing, and React 19 features in this comprehensive guide to modern React development. No prior React experience needed.

1. console.delight — By far our most popular link of the year with over 20,000 clicks(!) – but who doesn't use and love console.log? This post showed us how in the browser console it's not merely for printing plain text, but can be used to render things like SVGs and HTML.

2. JavaScript Visualized: Promise Execution — A well-diagrammed article coupled with an (optional) 8 minute video that went into how promises work under the hood. Hugely popular as most of Lydia's content tends to be.

3. Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework? — Despite being five years old, htmx has seen a surge in popularity in 2023 and 2024, partly due to framework fatigue, but also as its simple HTML-oriented approach to adding functionality to pages appeals to a diverse group of developers. v2.0 landed in June.

4. Ecma International Approves ECMAScript 2024: What’s New? — In June, the Ecma General Assembly approved the latest ECMAScript / JavaScript spec, officially making it a standard. As with ES2023, it was a reasonably small step forward, but Dr. Axel rounded up what was new.

6. Eloquent JavaScript: The Fourth Edition — Coming several years after the third edition, the latest version of what is, perhaps, the best ‘all rounder’ book for learning JavaScript arrived in March “adjusted to the realities of 2024 and generally touched up.”

7. 33 JavaScript Concepts Every Developer Should Know — A curated collection of links to tutorials on 33 different areas it’s worth understanding well, including types, closures, equality, scope, and different engines.

8. How Google Handles JavaScript In Its Indexing Process — At one point if you wanted Google to index your content it needed to be directly written in HTML and not dynamically rendered with JavaScript. Things have since changed, of course, but by how much?

The State of JavaScript 2024 Results — We recently encouraged you to take the annual State of JavaScript survey; the results are now out. 14,015 folks took part and we get to see what language features folks are using, experiences with popular libraries, build tool popularity, AI preferences, popular podcasts, runtime usage, and perhaps controversially, how more JavaScript developers are using TypeScript than not....