~javascriptweekly | Bookmarks (12)

▶  Node.js: A Documentary of Its Origin Story — It's an hour long, but this documentary covers the history of Node particularly well, including how everything brewed up to the io.js fork of 2014. Easter weekend watching, perhaps?

▶  Setting up an Express.js App with TypeScript in 2024 — This hour-long video isn't about building an entire app, but getting everything set up and working in a clear, easy to follow way, including a variety of modern DX niceties.

▶  Drizzle ORM Explained in 100 Seconds — The latest bitesize video from the always educational Fireship channel covers Drizzle ORM, a fast, TypeScript-based way to work with a variety of database systems across numerous JavaScript platforms, from Node to Bun, Deno Deploy, Supabase Functions, Cloudflare Workers, and more. If you need more, there’s ▶️ a 13 minute ‘crash course’ to learning Drizzle, too.

▶  Pac-Man in JavaScript in 1 Hour — I felt old when Ania said “if you’ve never played Pac-Man before..” 😅 – nonetheless, she’s back with another of her fantastic, thorough walkthroughs.

▶  So You Think You Know Git.. — GitHub co-founder Scott Chacon gave a spirited talk at FOSDEM 2024 digging into many interesting parts of git, as well as a few GitHub bits. If you’d prefer to read rather than watch, he has some blog posts covering it all too.

▶  A Deep Dive into htmx — Covers the fundamentals, digging into htmx’s codebase – plus it’s an unlisted video so you can feel like you’re in a secret club.

▶  Reimplementing GORILLAS.BAS in JavaScript — My first experience of publishing programming content was in the DOS QBasic era, so I have a soft spot for the Gorillas game that came with QBasic. Hunor has recorded a spectacular screencast on reimplementing it in JavaScript, but if you don't like videos, there’s a detailed written tutorial, too.

▶  How to Make A Great Framework Better? - Svelte 5 with Rich Harris — A sit-down interview with Rich Harris, creator of Svelte and SvelteKit. Dives into the philosophy, features, and future of Svelte, and covers how it aims to simplify web dev and make apps faster through its build time compilation approach. (78 minutes)

▶  An Alpine, HTMX, and Astro-Based Wordle App — Popular dev YouTuber Jack demonstrates building a Wordle clone with a modern Alpine, HTMX and Astro-based stack. Or you can go straight to the code, if you prefer.

▶  Let's Code Minesweeper in JavaScript — Ania is back with another of her fantastic step-by-step walkthrough videos. Now you can actually implement Minesweeper, rather than waste time playing it.. 😁

▶  HTMX for React Developers in 10 Minutes — You're not interested in discussions about semantics.. you just want to get something done with htmx? Here, Jack takes ten minutes to show off the essentials.