JavaScript

via Hacker News 100 (@hn100@social.lansky.name): How’s Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

Dennis Brotzky reverse-engineers the architectural decisions that make Linear feel instantaneous: a real database (IndexedDB) in the browser, local-first mutations that render synchronously, and a sync engine that pushes deltas over WebSockets in the background. It’s a good tour of the local-first playbook — the core insight being that the fastest network request is the one you never make.

via Kevin Stewart (@kstewart@hachyderm.io): Observable 2.0 | Observable

Observable 2.0 reframes the notebook company around Observable Framework, an open-source static site generator for building fast, polished data apps from Markdown and JavaScript. Data loaders run at build time, so dashboards ship as plain static files — a refreshingly simple architecture for data visualization on the web.

via Jack Rusher: “I will try to convince you that ridiculing JavaScript for this is less insightful than it first appears and that Swift’s approach to string length isn’t unambiguously the best one. Python 3’s approach is unambiguously the worst one, though.”

Leaflet - a JavaScript library for interactive maps

via Rust Weekly: My Node.js is a bit Rusty: a x25 perf boost by rewriting a Node.js module into Rust with napi.rs

via Kevin Stewart: Build a Cross-Platform CLI with Deno in 5 minutes

via a co-worker: VitePress: Vite & Vue Powered Static Site Generator

via Kevin Stewart: Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React

via Rust Trending: swc-project / swc: Rust-based platform for the Web ★27978

via Boa JavaScript engine: Boa just arrived at @fosstodon, so here we have our #introduction. 😋

via Webdev Weekly: Can Rust Beat JavaScript in 2023?