Presentation: Combating AI-Generated Fake Images with JavaScript Libraries

Kate Sills discusses JavaScript libraries to use for cryptographic hashes, digital signatures and timestamping, the traditional archival process, and how cryptographic hashes can prevent tampering. By Kate Sills ... more

Presentation: Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno

Ryan Dahl discusses Deno Runtime, Deno KV: A datastore anchored by ACID transactions and powered by FoundationDB, Deno Queues, NPM in Deno By Ryan Dahl ... more

AdonisJS v6 Released: TypeScript, ESM, and Beyond

AdonisJS, a Node.js web application framework, has released its latest major release AdonisJS v6. Notable highlights include a transition to ECMAScript Modules (ESM), an improved and simplified IoC container, improved TypeScript integration, and a more ... more

JQuery 4.0.0 Beta Released with Important Deprecations and Breaking Changes

Timmy Willison recently announced the beta release of jQuery 4.0. The new version of jQuery is a large release with numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and some breaking changes. IE By Bruno Couriol ... more

Presentation: JavaScript: Empowered by Rust

Chris Biscardi explores what Rust is being used for on the front-end and introduces the language from the perspective of a JavaScript developer. By Chris Biscardi ... more

Data Solutions Framework: An Open Source Project for Building Data Solutions on AWS

AWS recently released the Data Solutions Framework (DSF), an opinionated open-source framework designed to accelerate the creation of data solutions on AWS. Built using the AWS CDK, the framework exposes abstractions and patterns as building blocks for ... more

Deno 1.40 Released, Features Upcoming JavaScript’s Temporal API and Decorators

The Deno team recently released Deno 1.40. Deno 1.40 implements upcoming JavaScript’s Temporal API for advanced date and time operations; and the latest JavaScript’s decorator proposal for meta- and aspect-oriented programming. By Bruno Couriol ... more

Bun Announces Cross-Platform Shell Scripting in JavaScript and TypeScript

Bun recently announced the release of Bun Shell, offering JavaScript and TypeScript developers a cross-platform shell. This release aims to simplify the execution of shell scripts in JavaScript and TypeScript, providing a bash-like environment with features ... more

AWS Introduces an Experimental Low Latency Runtime for Faster, More Efficient Serverless Apps

AWS recently open-sourced its JavaScript runtime, called LLRT (Low Latency Runtime), an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient Serverless applications. By Steef-Jan Wiggers ... more

2023 JavaScript Rising Stars

The recent report from Rising Stars highlights the trends in the JavaScript ecosystem and showcases standout projects based on GitHub Stars in 2023. Overall, the most popular project was shadcn/ui, a collection of UI components that can be used to create ... more

JetBrains JavaScript Days 2023

JetBrains JavaScript Days 2023 recently concluded, offering developers a wealth of practical insights into the dynamic realms of Angular, AI integration, TypeScript, ECMAScript development, React best practices, JavaScript tooling improvements, and innovative ... more

MySQL Introduces Javascript Support in Preview

Oracle recently announced that the MySQL database server now supports JavaScript functions and procedures. JavaScript for stored routines is currently in preview and only available in the MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Heatwave. By Renato Losio ... more

Ngrok JavaScript and Python SDKs Aim to Turn Ingress into a High-Level Abstraction

The new ngrok JavaScript and Python SDKs enable embedding secure ingress into apps with a single line of code. It includes out-of-the-box support for capabilities such as high performance, resilience, security and observability, allowing developers to ... more

Javet 3.0.2 Released: Bridging Java and JavaScript with Enhanced Features

Javet, a fusion of Java and V8 (JAVa + V + EighT), has recently released its version 3.0.2, marking a significant advancement in embedding Node.js and V8 in Java. This version includes Node.js v20.10.0 and V8 v12.0.267.8, highlighting the project's commitment ... more

Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process for Tech Decisions

The analytic hierarchy process uses pairwise comparisons and scoring for criteria between the alternatives to give insights into what the best option is and why. John Riviello spoke about applying the analytic hierarchy process to decide what JavaScript ... more

Article: Going Global: A Deep Dive to Build an Internationalization Framework

Internationalization (i18n) is a critical process in web development, and requires a robust, well-designed framework to ensure scalability. While some JavaScript libraries exist, this article provides a language-agonistic framework that can be implemented ... more

Transformers.js: ML for the Web, Now with Text-to-Speech

Transformers.js, the JavaScript counterpart to the Python Transformers library, is designed for running Transformers models directly within web browsers, eliminating the necessity for external server processing. In the recent update to version 2.7, Transformers.js ... more

Node.js 21 Release Updates V8 Engine, WebSteams Module and Test Runner

The Node.js team has recently released Node.js 21. This release introduces changes such as updates to the V8 JavaScript engine, stable fetch and WebStreams modules, an experimental flag for altering module defaults, a built-in WebSocket client, and enhancements ... more

Article: How to Sustain Quality and Velocity in a JavaScript or TypeScript Project?

The JavaScript language and its ever-changing ecosystem of packages and practices can make codebases quickly become hard to maintain. The resulting loss of development velocity and/or code quality can be prevented without rewriting everything from scratch, ... more

Deno 1.37: Significant Developer-Focused Enhancements

Deno 1.37 introduces enhancements to the developer experience, particularly through its seamless integration with Jupyter notebooks. This integration enables developers to use JavaScript and TypeScript within Jupyter notebooks for tasks such as data ... more

GraalVM Replaces the GraalVM Updater with Language Libraries

The GraalVM team announced that Java libraries will replace the GraalVM Updater (gu) starting with JDK 21. The updater enabled the installation and management of GraalVM language runtimes and utilities. Libraries are available for languages such as JavaScript, ... more

QCon San Francisco 2023: Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno by Ryan Dahl

Ryan Dahl, Co-Founder and CEO at Deno and Software Engineer best known for creating Node.js, presented “Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno” at QCon San Francisco 2023. Dahl introduced Deno, an open source next-generation JavaScript runtime, and ... more

Combating AI-Generated Fake Images with JavaScript Libraries, by Kate Sills at QCon San Francisco

At the recent QCon San Francisco conference Kate Sills gave a talk about combating AI-generated fake images using existing JavaScript libraries. She advocated for using cryptographic timestamping to ensure the time photos were taken, and using digital ... more

AWS CodeArtifact Now Supports the Swift Package Manager

AWS-based software artifact repository CodeArtifact now supports the Swift Package Manager, in addition to Maven, NuGet, npm, pip, and others. This allows developers to store and retrieve Swift packages using Apple's official package manager just like ... more

Node.js Alternative Bun Now Generally Available

The release 1.0 of the JavaScript toolkit Bun has been recently announced. Aiming to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js, Bun is garnering attention from the JavaScript and serverless communities for its speed and ease of use. By Renato Losio ... more

LangChain - Working with Large Language Models, Made Easy

LangChain is a framework that simplifies working with large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI GPT4 or Google PaLM by providing abstractions for common use cases. It supports both JavaScript and Python. By Guy Nesher ... more

Bun Releases Native Bundler and Introduces Macros

Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript apps that aims to replace Node.js. Bun has recently launched its fast native JavaScript bundler, bringing enhanced bundling capabilities to the Bun ecosystem. The new bundler, now in beta, offers ... more

Manifest Confusion Paves the Way to New npm Supply Chain Threats

A recent report by former npm engineering manager Darcy Clarke found that the npm registry does not validate manifest information against the contents of its corresponding package tarball. This creates a double source of truth that attackers can exploit ... more

Import Maps, Now Available in All Browsers, Improves Module Resolution in JavaScript

With Safari 16.4 recently adding support for import maps, JavaScript developers can now use import maps in all modern browsers. Older browsers can use a polyfill. Import maps bring better module resolution for JavaScript applications. By Bruno Couriol ... more

New JavaScript Incremental Computing Library Delivers Better UX for Single-Page Apps

The team behind the collaborative whiteboard tldraw recently published a library that brings incremental computing to JavaScript. Signia seeks to overcome fundamental performance limitations of tldraw’s chosen UI and reactive framework and ultimately ... more