~javascriptweekly | Issue 722 - Oracle dabbles in some JavaScript comedy (16)

A Protracker Module Player in Pure JavaScript — I’m a sucker for 90s tracker music, JavaScript experiments, and cool Web experiences, and this has all three. If you’re not familiar with tracker music, it’s a way to write music on a grid which triggers the playing of samples. This code manages to parse and play a Protracker file in pure JavaScript. (Note: The image above...

Oracle Claims 'JavaScript' Isn't a Generic Term, and More — In this 'motion to dismiss' Oracle has responded to Deno’s attempt to prove Oracle shouldn't hold the JavaScript™ trademark with the argument that “relevant consumers do not perceive JAVASCRIPT as a generic term” (does Oracle only consider people who give it money to be relevant?) among other comedic insights.

There Are a Lot of Ways to Break Up Long Tasks in JavaScript — Due to how browsers and the event loop work, letting a single task hog the main thread is a quick way to freeze up your site’s UI. Alex explains the problem and uses a simple example to walk through the pros and cons of different solutions from basic use of...

Debugging Shopping Cart Issues Faster — Vue/Nuxt devs: Get full insight into your shopping cart errors! Capture Pinia State wherever errors occur. Learn how on the Sentry blog ».

▶  Angular: The Documentary — From the creators of the fantastic ▶️ Node.js and ▶️ Ruby on Rails documentaries comes this fresh story covering the ups and downs of the popular Angular (née AngularJS) framework starring a cast of veritable JavaScript luminaries.

Which Rich Text Editor Framework Should You Choose in 2025? — A round-up of actively developed WYSIWYG editor options you can drop into your apps along with the pros and cons of each.

How to Publish ESM-Based npm Packages with TypeScript — Now that you can use the ES modules (almost) everywhere, it’s worth understanding how to package them up for use with npm. Axel digs into everything you need to know and shares some useful tools too.

Locate and Resolve JavaScript Errors Instantly with Datadog — Troubleshoot frontend JavaScript errors faster with frontend to backend correlation and automatic error tracking.

An Introduction to WebAssembly in Deno — How to build a simple WASM module and use it to call Rust code from JavaScript.

Vite with TypeScript — If you’ve created a JavaScript-based React project with Vite and want to get on the TypeScript train, here are the basic steps.

RE2JS 1.0: Linear Time Matching for Regular Expressions — RE2 is a regular expression engine built by Google designed to operate in time proportional to the size of the input, in order to avoid so-called ‘ReDoS’ problems caused by backtracking, and this brings such protection to the browser too.

Fuse.js 7.1: Lightweight Fuzzy-Search with No Dependencies — Want a simple search feature without a dedicated backend? This mature solution could help. Here’s a live demo.

🎨 tinygradient 2.0: A Gradient Generation Library — Generate color gradients with an unlimited number of color stops and steps in JavaScript to use as you wish. Supports named colors, hex colors, RGV, HSVa, and RGB CSS strings. GitHub repo.

parse-duration 2.0: Convert a Human Readable Duration to Milliseconds — You might wonder why a library that converts 1hr 20mins into 4800000 needs a version 2. Well, it now supports more units (mo, mth, microsec, and nanosec), has moved to ESM, and supports locales.

Waveform Renderer — Quickly create a visual waveform from a MP3 or WAV — you can also edit the look. Think of it as a lighter alternative to Wavesurfer.js. GitHub repo.

WorkOS: Sell to Enterprises with a Few Lines of Code — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, offering flexible, easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and FGA in minutes instead of months.