✅ ⭐️ 2024's JavaScript Rising Stars

It’s time to fully wave goodbye to 2024, but not before Michael Rambeau’s annual analysis of which JavaScript projects fared best on GitHub over the past year. Even if you dislike GitHub stars as a metric for anything, this remains a great way to get a feel for the JavaScript ecosystem and see what libraries and tools have mindshare in a variety of niches. A fantastic roundup as always.

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✅ PostalMime: A Universal Email Parsing Library

An email parsing library happy in most JS runtimes. Takes the raw source of emails and parses them into their constituent parts.

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✅ Play Tetris in a PDF File

I'll let you decide if this one is fun or frightening! Whether or not this will work depends on your PDF reader or browser support, but it works with Chrome and Firefox, at least.

The PDF document format supports embedded JavaScript and this experiment uses it to implement a game of Tetris. The developer, Thomas Rinsma, has used Python to output the PostScript that includes the game's JavaScript. Couple that with the fact many browser PDF renderers are themselves implemented in JavaScript (e.g. PDF.js) and you have a veritable Matryoshka doll of technologies at play here.

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✅ Learning Vue for React Developers

If you already know React, learning Vue should be easy. The author proves this by comparing some code examples

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✅ Five Years of React Native at Shopify

Five years ago, Shopify said React Native was the future for mobile development at their company and they really meant it with every mobile app moving to RN over time. Here’s what they learnt along the way and why they’re sticking with it.

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✅ An Early Look at React's Experimental Animations API

<ViewTransition /> is based on the powerful browser-based View Transition API (unsupported in Firefox for now). It’s only in pre-release versions of React so far, but Matt comes armed with examples and demos for you to get an early feel for the potential.

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