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TOAST UI Grid 4.0 Released

TOAST UI Grid (see samples here) is a powerful and customizable grid control for the Web that supports editing, calculations, a tree-like view, theming, and more. 4.0 is a big release as it tears out the old jQuery and Backbone dependencies, adds keyboard navigation, and can handle large datasets better. GitHub repo.

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Everything You Need to Know About Date in JavaScript

Runs through what you need to know about Date objects.

A Gentle Introduction to Web Components

Web Components (custom elements) allow you to implement reusable components with only HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Here’s how to build your first, and how to use them in your apps.

Building 'Micro Frontends' with React, Vue, and Single SPA

A look at how to use multiple JavaScript frameworks in a single-page application.. if you so wished.

Hit the Ground Running with WebAssembly 🚀

In this WebAssembly tutorial, you'll learn how to port the MD5 algorithm from C to WebAssembly, and how to run it in the browser! We'll also discuss practical applications for WebAssembly inside and outside the browser.

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Just: A JavaScript Task Library from Microsoft

If you’re familiar with Ruby’s rake, it’s a bit like that. Define tasks in JavaScript, run them with just (which works fine without installation using npx) and you get a bunch of nice features like logging and task composition.

Spotlight: A New Lightbox Gallery Library

It’s been years since we’ve linked to one of these (2 actually, when we linked to lightgallery.js, which remains a good option).

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V8 Release v7.6: What's New?

Another day, another branch of V8 is on the boil and headed to a Chrome 76 and future version of Node near you soon 😄 This time, the heavily used JSON.parse gets some significant performance improvements, BigInt now has better API support, we gain Promise.allSettled, and more.