👀 DOCX 9.0: Generate Word .docx Files from JavaScript

The code to lay out documents is verbose but there’s a lot of functionality baked in and there aren’t many other options for this task. Here’s a CodePen-based example to give you an idea. GitHub repo.

Dolan Miu

CHALLENGE ❓

const obj = Object.freeze({
  name: "Alice",
  info: {
    age: 25
  }
});

try {
  obj.name = "Bob";
  obj.info.age = 30;
} catch (e) {
  console.log("Error:", e.message);
}

console.log(obj.name, obj.info.age);

CHALLENGE ❓

function* numberGenerator() {
  let i = 0;
  while (i < 3) {
    yield i++;
  }
}

const gen = numberGenerator();
console.log(gen.next().value);
console.log(gen.return(10).value);
console.log(gen.next().value);

CHALLENGE ❓

function processData({ a = 10, b = 20 } = { a: 30 }) {
  console.log(a, b);
}

processData({ a: 5 });
processData();

✌️ 10 New JS Features You Should Know About

Awesome

CHALLENGE ❓

const obj = {};
Object.defineProperty(obj, 'name', {
  value: 'Alice',
  writable: false,
  configurable: false
});

try {
  obj.name = 'Bob';
  delete obj.name;
  console.log(obj.name);
} catch (e) {
  console.log('Error:', e.message);
}

🤟 Node v20.18.0 (LTS) Released; v20 'Iron' Prepares to Bow Out as Active LTS Release

It’s been a quiet few weeks for official releases. This update marks one of the last in Node 20’s run as the active LTS release, and introduces experimental network inspection support. Node 22 will soon take over the active LTS crown (as per schedule) but what will its codename be given there are no elements starting with J? Amazingly, this question was asked six years ago and it's (probably) going to be Jod.

Michaël Zasso

CHALLENGE ❓

const map = new Map();
const key1 = {};
const key2 = key1;

map.set(key1, "Value for key1");
map.set(key2, "Value for key2");

console.log(map.get({}));
console.log(map.get(key1));

👀 The Story of Web Framework Hono, By Its Creator

Hono is a neat, lightweight framework designed to run on any JavaScript runtime that has been picking up steam in the past year. You can create a simple app reminiscent of Express.js, say, but run it on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, or Node. It’s in heavy use all over the place, and has lots of interesting features like letting you write HTML with JSX.

Yusuke Wada

🥂 We Did It – 25K Subscribers!

We're excited to announce that our newsletter reached 25,000 subscribers! This was one of our biggest goals for 2024, and we couldn’t have done it without your amazing support.

Thank you for being part of this journey. We’ve got more exciting content coming, so stay tuned!

CHALLENGE ❓

Promise.resolve(1)
  .then(value => {
    console.log(value);
    throw new Error('Something went wrong');
  })
  .then(() => {
    console.log('This will not run');
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log('Caught:', error.message);
    return 42;
  })
  .then(value => {
    console.log('Recovered with:', value);
  });

😆 True ...

It's just easy to start.