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from my link log —
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem: polyfills gone rogue.
https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem-part-6/
saved 2023-09-21

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Polyfills gone rogue
Many popular npm packages depend on 6-8x more packages than they need to. Most of these are unnecessary polyfills and it's one of the key reasons node_modules folders are so large. The eslint ecosystem seems to be most affected by this.

🥳 Just published JSDB version 8.0.0
JSDB is a zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb
⁃ Breaking: Minimum Node version is now 24 (LTS)

jsdb
A zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.

The ternary operator is all fun and games until you end up with a branch coverage drop without a line number for the culprit (because one of the branches is covered).
#dev #programming #JavaScript…

If you're using #TypeScript or #JavaScript or #NPM, where do people hang out and talk about projects/issues these days (other than on Reddit, Discord), i.e. where are the communities/exchanges, since …

🔧 Ships as a language server (harper-ls), a JavaScript library, a Rust crate, browser extensions and editor plugins: VS Code, Neovim, Zed, Obsidian, WordPress block editor, Chrome, Firefox and a macOS desktop app that works in every text field system-wide.

This is what cve.org is showing when I don't allow JavaScript execution for a third party domain (mitre.org) in my LibreWolf browser: "Service is currently unavailable." 🤦‍♂️
I guess the #security community should do better than that.
And yes, when JavaScript is disabled for cve.org, I do get a helpful message that informs me that the web site can't work without JavaS…

Okay, i knew that the infosec industry is being commoditized, but damn, it is completive out there.
#JobSearch #ShitPost #Shitposting

HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
Building a SPA (Single-page Application) is a complex puzzle: a JavaScript framework that draws the view, an API serving JSON, and 2 independent codebases forced to understand each other through contracts. It is an accepted, professionalized scenario. […]
— by @…
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from my link log —
Enumerating and analyzing 40 non-V8 JavaScript implementations.
https://notes.eatonphil.com/javascript-implementations.html
saved 2021-09-22

Little tip when linking to source code in your docs, etc.
You can link directly to lines using anchors if the web view of your source control system supports it. e.g., for Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb/src/branch/main/lib/QuerySanitiser.…

jsdb/lib/QuerySanitiser.js at main
jsdb - A zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.