Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 198

Safari Technology Preview Release 198 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia beta and macOS Sonoma. If you already have Safari Technology Preview installed, you can update it in System Settings under General → Software Update. This release includes ... more

ECMAScript 2024 JavaScript standard approved

ECMAScript 2024, the latest version of ECMA International’s standard for JavaScript, has been officially approved, with features including transferring ArrayBuffers and advanced capabilities for working with string sets. The ECMAScript 2024 specification, ... more

Intro to multithreaded JavaScript

The JavaScript language is one of the wonders of the software world. It is incredibly powerful, flexible, and versatile. One limitation of its fundamental design, however, is its single-threaded nature. Traditional JavaScript appears to handle parallel ... more

WebAssembly vs JavaScript: A Comparison

We compare WebAssembly and JavaScript, examining their performance, portability, ease of use, security, and community support. Continue reading WebAssembly vs JavaScript: A Comparison on SitePoint. ... more

Node v22.4.0 (Current)

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Angular 18 Introduces Zoneless Change Detection

Angular recently announced the release of Angular 18, introducing zoneless change detection, a new developer hub, stable versions of several features, server-side rendering improvements, and more. This release focuses on stabilizing new APIs, addressing ... more

Over 100K+ Sites Hit by Polyfill.io Supply Chain Attack

E-Commerce security firm Sansec unveiled a new supply chain attack affecting the Polyfill JS service when accessed through a number of CDNs hosting it. According to Sansec, over 100K sites were hit. The original author of the service, Andrew Betts, suggested ... more

Tuesday, July 2, 2024 Security Releases

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Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 197

Safari Technology Preview Release 197 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia beta and macOS Sonoma. If you already have Safari Technology Preview installed, you can update it in System Settings under General → Software Update. This release includes ... more

Exploring Randomness In JavaScript

Ben Nadel compares the randomness of Math.random() to crypto.getRandomValues() in JavaScript.... ... more

Node v20.15.0 (LTS)

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WebStorm 2024.2 EAP Digest #2: New TypeScript Engine, Ability to Run .ts Files, Git and Markdown Improvements

We’re halfway through the Early Access Program for WebStorm 2024.2! It’s been a while since we walked you through the latest improvements and features in this release, so it’s about time for an update. Read on to learn about the key changes that made ... more

JavaScript needs more money

There isn’t nearly enough money in open source today. We can complain about venture capitalists distorting open source licensing, wring our hands about sustainability, and fret over how much foundation execs like Mozilla’s make, but the real issue isn’t ... more

Send Personalized Emails using Gemini API, SendGrid and Node.js

Learn how to. build an application that uses Sendgrid and the Gemini API to generate personalized emails based on your prompt. ... more

Mistral Introduces AI Code Generation Model Codestral

Mistral AI, has unveiled Codestral, its first code-focused AI model. Codestral helps the developers with coding tasks offering efficiency and accuracy in code generation. By Daniel Dominguez ... more

Node v22.3.0 (Current)

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JetBrains Aqua IDE for Test Automation Now Generally Available

Aqua, the first IDE for test automation, is now generally available. The IDE supports multiple languages and major testing frameworks like Selenium and Cypress. JetBrains introduces a new licensing model with Free Individual Non-Commercial and Paid Commercial ... more

Article: Streaming HTML – Asynchronous DOM Updates without JavaScript

Web applications provide the best user experience when pages load quickly and display additional data as it becomes available. Developers typically use JavaScript to load data asynchronously, but this adds complexity when compared to server-side rendering. ... more

News from WWDC24: WebKit in Safari 18 beta

The last year has been a great one for WebKit. After unveiling Safari 17 beta at WWDC23, we’ve shipped six releases of Safari 17.x with a total of 200 new web technologies. And we’ve been hard at work on multiple architectural improvement projects that ... more

How to Create a Modal in React with HTML Dialog

How to Create a Modal in React with HTML Dialog 23 minutes by Colby Fayock Modals aren’t anything new, but gone are the days that we need to install bloated libraries to one to our app. Instead, let’s see how we can drop in a new modal to a React app ... more

TypeScript adds support for ECMAScript’s Set methods

TypeScript 5.5, the latest version of Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, has graduated to a release candidate (RC) stage. The update, which brings improvements ranging from performance and size optimizations to regular expression checking, ... more

Improving Web Accessibility with Web Platform Tests

Last year, a colleague introduced me to the Interop Accessibility project. I immediately resonated with its charge to “improve the state of accessibility across the entire web, regardless of which platform, browser, or assistive technology.” The project’s ... more

Safari Technology Preview 196 Release Notes

Safari Technology Preview Release 196 is now available for download for macOS Sonoma and macOS Ventura. If you already have Safari Technology Preview installed, you can update it in System Settings under General → Software Update. This release includes ... more

Introducing Shared Memory Versioning to improve slow interactions

On the Chrome team, we believe it’s not sufficient to be fast most of the time, we have to be fast all of the time. Today’s The Fast and the Curious post explores how we contributed to Core Web Vitals by surveying the field data of Chrome responding ... more

The overwhelmed person’s guide to Google Cloud: week of May 30

The content in this blog post was originally published last week as a members-only email to the Google Cloud Innovators community. To get this content directly in your inbox (not to mention lots of other benefits ), sign up to be an Innovator today . ... more

New Signals Proposal Seeks to Formalize Reactive Programming Primitives in JavaScript

The JavaScript language recently added the Signals proposal (currently in Stage 1) to the list of candidate features striving to improve the language. The Signals proposal seeks to provide common primitives primarily for framework maintainers to implement ... more

Deno adds support for private NPM registries

Deno Land has released Deno 1.44, the latest version of the JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime rivaling Node.js. The upgrade adds support for private NPM registries, letting developers use internal packages with Deno by configuring an .npmrc ... more

The Deno Team Releases JSR, a New JavaScript Package Registry

The Deno team recently beta released JSR, a new JavaScript registry that strives to better fit the current needs of modern development and unify a fragmented JavaScript ecosystem. In particular, JSR embraces ESM (JavaScript native modules), natively ... more

Best practices for AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs

In this post, we will look at strategies to consider when building out your GraphQL API and explore why AWS AppSync is a great choice for building and deploying this API. We will review best practices that have been devised by the AWS AppSync team and ... more

Why learn LangChain (as a JavaScript developer)?

My main scope for this article is to detail why learning LangChain is a worthwhile investment, both for seasoned and beginner JavaScript developers. As a disclaimer, just wanted to let you know that yesterday was the official launch date of the 📘 LangChain ... more