Eight Options to Reduce JavaScript Code: Solid.js creator Ryan Carniato suggests several approaches to reduce JavaScript code footprint, covering areas from code splitting to progressive hydration and hybrid routing.

• TC39 has started a new task group to standardize source maps.
• Colin Eberhardt goes over The State of WebAssembly 2023 results.
• The latest React Jam gamedev event began today with ten days to create a game using React. Previous winning entries are available.
• You can also see the latest js13kGames winners.
• Obfuscating JavaScript and then compressing it doesn't have a great outcome in terms of size reduction.
• The Node.js project has an official mascot design contest.

RELEASES:

• TanStack Query v5: Query-led declarative state management and data fetching.
• Storybook 7.5: Frontend component dev tool with Vite 5 and Lit 3 support, faster starts, and Angular-focused improvements.
• Lit 3.0: Build agnostic components on top of modern Web standards.
• Rockpack 4.0: React app starter/generator.
• Astro 3.3, Biome 1.3, and Bun 1.0.6.

Articles & Tutorials:

• The Nuances of Base64 Encoding Strings in JavaScript: Matt Joseph looks at how to do Base64 encoding and decoding in JavaScript and areas to take special care.
• event.target.closest: Jeremy Keith introduces this way to return the closest DOM node that matches a specified CSS selector.
• Prototyping a JavaScript JIT Compiler: Andreas Kling's 80-minute screencast is fascinating if you have the time and inclination. Andreas has developed a JavaScript-capable browser called Ladybird for his own OS SerenityOS.

Code & Tools:

• Postgres.js 3.4: A high performance Postgres client working with several JavaScript platforms including Node, Deno, Bun, and Cloudflare, offering features like realtime change subscription, dynamic query building, high availability support, async cursors, etc.
• PureImage: A pure JS HTML Canvas 2D for Node.js to get a browser-like 2D canvas experience without native dependencies.
• eslint-plugin-regexp 2.0: ESLint plugin to find regex related issues with an interactive demo.
• little-rat: Chrome extension to monitor (and block) other extensions' network calls.
• Sortable 3.0: Make tables sortable with class="sortable".
• AdminJS 7.3: Automatic admin interface for Node apps.
• Shoelace 2.10: Suite of elegant web components.
• Recharts 2.9: React and D3 charting library.
• Fable 4.3: F# to JavaScript compiler.