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Announcing MongoDB 8.0 — Over 30% Faster Than Before — Learn how MongoDB 8.0 was built to exceed the most stringent security, availability, and performance requirements.

VueFormify 1.1: Simple Type-Safe Form Building for Vue — Bills itself as “your ticket to form-building autonomy.” There’s a getting started guide and GitHub repo.

Tauri 2.0: Small, Fast Desktop Apps using Web Technologies — Tauri is a Rust-based alternative to Electron for bringing together HTML, JavaScript and CSS code to create cross-platform desktop apps. Rather than using V8, it uses the natively available webview to run your code.

▶  Bundling: The Past, Present and Future — A history lesson on bundlers, why they’re used, the problems they solve, the current ecosystem, and a look at the potential future for these tools.

Unleash JavaScript's Potential with Functional Programming — More focused on the how, rather than the why, but a good primer nonetheless, especially if you’ve never tried to learn about FP before.

An Online Event You Won’t Want to Miss — 🔥 JetBrains JavaScript Day returns Oct 24, and it promises to be the best one yet! Explore an impressive agenda and register for free today.

The Nine Node Pillars: Principles for Doing Node Right — A group of prolific and productive Node.js contributors have put together a checklist to identify gaps in your current Node development practices, particularly when building large-scale apps.

A Complete Guide to Session Management in Next.js — Learn how integrating session management into your app provides robust security and enhances user experience.

What Are Durable Functions? A Visual JavaScript Primer — This is rather dependent on what Inngest, a durable function service, offers, but is a good primer to the general idea which may well suit your use cases.

What's New in Express.js 5.0 — Express.js 5.0 landed recently with rather brief release notes, so here's a deeper look at what it has to offer. The updates are largely incremental, but set the stage for Express’s future.

Angular Routing Essentials: Everything in One Post — A bold claim, but it does a pretty good job.

Schedule-X 2: A Modern Event Calendar Component — Available in the form of React/Preact, Vue, Svelte, Angular, or plain JS components. Open source but with a premium version with extra features. GitHub repo.

🧹 Vue Mess Detector: Code and Quality Analysis for Vue Projects — A static analysis tool that can catch various bugs and code quality issues in Vue-based projects, built atop rules from the Vue.js Style Guide and others. GitHub repo.

Tesseract.js: Pure JS OCR for 100+ Languages — A port of the C++-based Tesseract library commonly used for extract text from images. The homepage has a live demo where you can drop your own images. GitHub repo.

HumanifyJS: Deobfuscate JavaScript Code using ChatGPT — There’s an in-depth explainer here. The primary feature is its ability to reverse the loss of meaningful variable and function names based on the context of the code.

React Snap Carousel: DOM-First, Headless Carousel — Uses native browser scrolling and CSS scroll snap points for performance. Try out some of its features in its Storybook. The latest version adds support for infinite carousels.

Using Reddit's JSON API from a JavaScript App — How to pull data from Reddit’s API and display it in a simple web application built with Parcel.

Deno 2.0 Release Candidate — Deno started life as a manifestation of ideas that Node’s original creator, Ryan Dahl, had after his experiences with Node. Deno 2 is the next step: how the Deno team thinks Deno should ultimately be. Many changes await: window is gone and Node’s process appears, dependency management has been improved, numerous APIs have gone stable (e.g. WebGPU), and both...

Don't Sleep on AbortController — AbortController is a broadly available mechanism for, originally, aborting Web requests on demand, but you can use it for a lot more than that (or ‘anything!’, as Artem explains).

Learn to Build Feature-Rich, Native Mobile Apps Using React Native and Expo — Join Kadi Kraman for a video course designed to hone your React skills. Whether a beginner, or looking to further refine your skill set, you'll learn to create practical iOS and Android apps, covering components, styling, UX, linting, async storage, animation, and much more.

How Josh W. Comeau Rebuilt His Blog, App Router Style — We’re huge fans of Josh’s blog and he’s just rebuilt it entirely using Next.js, MDX, Sandpack, and an array of other technologies. Here, he goes into great depth about what's involved. A good look behind the scenes of a modern React-driven project.

A Guide to Destructuring in JavaScript — The destructuring assignment syntax appeared in ES6 almost ten years ago and has become a central part of modern JavaScript development. This is a good primer/reminder of the potential.

ts-blank-space: Fast Type-Stripping TypeScript to JS Compiler — It’s job is simple: be the fastest TS to JS compiler written in JS (it’s 5.6x faster than tsc.) Types are simply replaced with whitespace preserving the coordinates of the JS code which eliminates the need for sourcemaps entirely.

ts-remove-unused: Remove Unused Code from TypeScript Projects — A tool that can auto-fix unused exports (removing export from the declaration or the whole declaration based on its usage) and delete modules that have no referenced exports. Knip is another mature tool in this space, though focused more on detecting the things you can remove.