Hacker News with Generative AI: JavaScript

Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search (techcrunch.com)
Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely-used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search.

Google Search, Web Development, JavaScript

12 points by jmsflknr 10 hours ago | 4 comments

A standards-first web framework (nuejs.org)
Today Nue takes a new, more natural direction: it becomes a standards first web framework.

Web Frameworks, JavaScript, Standards

162 points by tipiirai 2 days ago | 191 comments

Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript (ycombinator.com)
Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript

Google, Search Engines, Privacy, Web Browsers, JavaScript

92 points by superkuh 2 days ago | 79 comments

Modern JavaScript for Django developers (saaspegasus.com)
JavaScript is the lifeblood of the modern web application. You need it to do anything remotely complex on the web.

JavaScript, Django, Web Development

235 points by rob 3 days ago | 154 comments

Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com (sourcecodered.com)
Every morning I get up and check what malicious packages my detector had found the night before. It’s like someone checking their fishing nets to see what fish they caught.

Security, Software Development, Open Source, JavaScript

569 points by arkadiyt 4 days ago | 311 comments

What is a DOM node? A peek under the hood (gregros.dev)
What makes an object a DOM node? Is it the prototype or something else?

Web Development, JavaScript, Programming, HTML, DOM

24 points by thunderbong 5 days ago | 9 comments

Gleam v1.7 (gleam.run)
Gleam is a type-safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.7.0 has been published, featuring an array of wonderful improvements. Let’s take a look!

Programming, New Releases, Erlang, JavaScript, Functional Programming

182 points by akkad33 8 days ago | 26 comments

A New Chapter for Express.js (expressjs.com)
As we step into the new year, it’s almost impossible to ignore the unmistakable energy coursing through the Express.js community. The past twelve months have proven both foundational and forward-looking: an era of governance overhauls, technical triumphs, and security enhancements that not only shaped 2024 but also laid the groundwork for what promises to be a transformative 2025.

JavaScript, Web Development, Node.js, Software, Frameworks

3 points by ent101 8 days ago | 0 comments

Node.js enables TypeScript handling by default (nodejs.org)
This release enables the flag --experimental-strip-types by default. Node.js will be able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration:

Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Software, Programming

16 points by Shakahs 10 days ago | 7 comments

Oracle Will Not Voluntarily Withdraw JavaScript Trademark (twitter.com)

Oracle, Trademarks, Lawsuits, JavaScript

154 points by cfnewsperson1 10 days ago | 87 comments

Koa – Next generation web framework for Node.js (koajs.com)
Koa is a new web framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs.

Web Development, Node.js, Frameworks, JavaScript

14 points by edweis 11 days ago | 23 comments

The Future of Htmx (htmx.org)
htmx began life as intercooler.js, a library built around jQuery that added behavior based on HTML attributes.

Web Development, JavaScript, Libraries, HTML

787 points by polyrand 11 days ago | 430 comments

Show HN: LogLayer – Unified logger that routes logs to various logging libraries (loglayer.dev)

JavaScript, Open Source, Logging, Software, Tools

56 points by theogravity 12 days ago | 26 comments

Gleam v1.7 (gleam.run)
Gleam is a type-safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.7.0 has been published, featuring an array of wonderful improvements. Let’s take a look!

New Releases, Programming Languages, Erlang, JavaScript, Functional Programming

20 points by lpil 13 days ago | 1 comments

Breaking Up with Long Tasks or: how I learned to group loops and wield the yield (perfplanet.com)
Arrays are in every web developer’s toolbox, and there are a dozen ways to iterate over them. Choose wrong, though, and all of that processing time will happen synchronously in one long, blocking task. The thing is, the most natural ways are the wrong ways. A simple for..of loop that processes each array item is synchronous by default, while Array methods like forEach and map can ONLY run synchronously.

JavaScript, Performance Optimization, Web Development

203 points by jcbhmr 14 days ago | 71 comments

Swc4j: SWC for Java (github.com/caoccao)
swc4j (SWC for Java) is an ultra-fast JavaScript and TypeScript compilation and bundling tool on JVM.

Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Compilation, Bundling

70 points by stefankuehnel 14 days ago | 17 comments

Minimal Vanilla JavaScript Framework (belaprodev.github.io)

JavaScript, Frameworks, Web Development

11 points by Octo-Shark 14 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Made a small JavaScript benchmarking app – BenchJS (benchjs.com)

JavaScript, Benchmarking, Tools, Web Development

33 points by _andrei_ 18 days ago | 5 comments

Libsearch: Simple index-free full-text search for JavaScript (github.com/thesephist)
Simple, index-free text search for JavaScript, used across my personal projects like YC Vibe Check, linus.zone/entr, and my personal productivity software. Read the annotated source to understand how it works under the hood.

JavaScript, Full-text Search, Open Source, Personal Projects

96 points by thesephist 20 days ago | 19 comments

Show HN: Caravan, a flexible, transport-based logging system for TypeScript apps (github.com/carlos-menezes)
A flexible, transport-based logging system for JavaScript/TypeScript applications.

TypeScript, Logging, JavaScript, Software, Open Source

18 points by carlos-menezes 24 days ago | 4 comments

Compiling Full-Featured JavaScript to WASM (twitter.com)

JavaScript, WebAssembly, Compilation

7 points by tmikov 24 days ago | 0 comments

JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess (byteofdev.com)
I hate benchmarking code, just like any human (which, at this point, most viewers of this probably aren’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). It is much more fun to pretend that your caching of a value increased performance 1000% rather than testing to see what it did. Alas, benchmarking in JavaScript is still necessary, especially as JavaScript is used (when it shouldn’t be?) in more performance-sensitive applications. Unfortunately, due to many of its core architectural decisions, JavaScript doesn’t make benchmarking any easier.

JavaScript, Benchmarking, Performance, Programming, Software Development

133 points by joseneca 25 days ago | 83 comments

Show HN: NoSQL, but it's SQLite (github.com)
SQLite-backed key-value store with JS-like object manipulation and automatic JSON serialization.

Databases, NoSQL, JavaScript, SQLite

98 points by vsroy 27 days ago | 39 comments

XState – State machines for state management in JavaScript (github.com/statelyai)
XState is a state management and orchestration solution for JavaScript and TypeScript apps. It has zero dependencies, and is useful for frontend and backend application logic.

JavaScript, State Management, Frontend Development, Backend Development, Libraries

29 points by sebmellen 27 days ago | 9 comments

Why Playwright Is Dominating Browser Automation: A Deep Dive (leapcell.io)

Browser Automation, Software Testing, Web Development, JavaScript

7 points by issac_0v0 28 days ago | 5 comments

Hexagon Page Animations (redblobgames.com)
When I first wrote my hexagon guide[1] in 2013 I used d3.js[2], which has a nice animation system.

Web Development, Animation, JavaScript

5 points by signa11 28 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Mizu.js – Lightweight HTML templating library for any-side rendering (mizu.sh)
Supercharge your HTML!

JavaScript, HTML, Templating, Front-End Development, Open Source

225 points by lowlighter 29 days ago | 86 comments

How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect (exotext.com)
I had a "woah" moment once when one programmer got genuinely baffled about the fact that a website somehow "erases" the history of requests from the Network tab of Chrome DevTools. He was wondering what magic method was used to hide the communication. He hadn't realized the app was not a single-page JS application (SPA), and he actually wasn't aware there is another way to make web apps.

Web Development, JavaScript, Front-End Development

206 points by todsacerdoti 30 days ago | 200 comments

Show HN: CCState is a semantic, strict, and flexible state management library (github.com/e7h4n)
CCState is a semantic, strict, and flexible state management library suitable for medium to large single-page applications with complex state management needs.