~javascriptweekly | Issue 692 - The biggest TypeScript release in years? (17)

Bread Jam: Make Variables and Properties Easier to See in VS Code — An interesting new VS Code extension that offers 11 different ways to make variable names stand out more in your editor, with both basic colorization approaches and an interesting emoji-based prefix option.

TC39 Meets Again and Advances Key Proposals — The Ecma TC39 group that pushes forward the development of ECMA/JavaScript met again this week and moved several key proposals forward, including Deferred Import Evaluation, Error.isError(), RegExp escaping, and Promise.try.

Announcing TypeScript 5.5 RC — This is shaping up to be one of TypeScript’s more significant releases, with popular dev-YouTuber Theo ▶️ dropping a 30 minute video on what he’s calling “the biggest TypeScript release in years.”

How to Compose JS Functions That Take Multiple Parameters — “Function composition is beautiful,” says James, who goes on to explain, in his usually elegant way, the use of partial application, currying, composite data structures, and more.

State of Frontend 2024 Survey Is Out Now! Hundreds Have Already Joined — Spare a few minutes to fill in the survey and receive a free report on the future of frontend development.

'I Tried React Compiler Today, and Guess What..' — The recently unveiled React Compiler automatically memoizes things – so can we ditch memo, useMemo and useCallback right away? Nadia investigates, finds the rough edges, and helps keep our feet on the ground.

'How a Single Vulnerability Can Bring Down the JS Ecosystem' — A slightly alarmist headline and it’s more about npm, but the issue outlined could have nonetheless posed big problems – luckily, GitHub is on the case.

Generating ZIP Files with JavaScript — JSZip makes it easy to dynamically create an archive for users to download.

Using Node.js's Test Runner: The Official Guide — A new guide on the official Node site covering the fundamentals of using Node’s new test runner functionality, along with snapshot tests (supported by Node 22.3).

DGM.js: Infinite Canvas Library with Smart Shapes — A library for rendering and working with infinitely pannable canvases that contain ‘smart shapes’ that you can script and give various constraints and properties. GPLv3 licensed.

Pastel 3.0: A Framework for Building Ink Apps — Ink brings the power of JSX and React components to building command line apps. Pastel provides more structure on top of that in a Next.js fashion.

Add Authorization, MFA, Biometrics and More to Your JavaScript App in Just Minutes — It's about time that somebody talked some sense about OAuth and JavaScript. So we did. You're welcome.

uuid v10: Generate RFC-Compliant UUIDs — Covers all major UUID standards. Works across all major browsers and Node 18+. v10.0 adds support for more types of RFC9562 UUIDs (namely v6, v7 and v8).

JsonTree.js: Customizable Tree Views for JSON Data — No dependencies, lots of customizations, and it’s easy to theme the trees using CSS variables. Try out some examples on the docs site.

Turf.js 7.0: Geospatial Engine for Browsers and Node — A collection of modules for doing spatial analysis, working with GeoJSON data, data classification, and more. GitHub repo.

Parvus 2.6: Accessible Lightbox with No Dependencies — I love how it says not to use overlays on web pages but if you have to, use this! There’s a CodePen example.

Free Auth for 1 Million MAUs — WorkOS provides easy-to-use APIs for authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM.