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WTF Wednesday (May 22, 2024)

Your /r/javascript recap for the week of May 13 - May 19, 2024

Monday, May 13 - Sunday, May 19, 2024

Top Posts

score comments title & link
86 66 comments I developed a PC game just with JavaScript
80 39 comments Introducing React Compiler – React
52 5 comments I open sourced Athena Crisis, a game built entirely with JavaScript, React and CSS
38 10 comments LDAPjs decomissioned by maintainer over hateful email
30 15 comments My first electron project using JS, a note-taking application with reminders & more.
26 2 comments I made a soundfont MIDI player in vanilla JavaScript
25 30 comments Introducing Code Screenshot - Create presentation-ready visuals of your code
25 6 comments Fuzzysort v3 release – Fast, Tiny, & Good fuzzy search for JavaScript
23 5 comments Silly little app I made that converts math equations into sound
21 7 comments Comprehensive guide to JavaScript performance analysis using Chrome DevTools

 

Most Commented Posts

score comments title & link
0 44 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] What editor do people use on linux?
0 37 comments Is vim deserves learning guys ?
5 32 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] How to find paid mentor?
0 30 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] Is it bad practice in 2024 to extend native JavaScript objects?
7 26 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] Looking for an ES6-based MVC framework

 

Top Ask JS

score comments title & link
11 8 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] I want to create an interactive tutorial about how browser really works and i need links
6 8 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] Is Chokidar still the best library for detecting folder changes across platforms?
4 5 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] what lesson can I learn from this upcoming project (using react)

 

Top Showoffs

score comment
1 u/Vegetable_Agent_6361 said A real-time spreadsheet collaboration using React and Jspreadsheet. [https://github.com/jspreadsheet/spreadsheet-react-server](https://github.com/jspreadsheet/spreadsheet-react-server&#41...
1 u/InternationalAct3494 said I made an easy-to-use video transformation API and released it on GitHub. [StreamPot.io](http://StreamPot.io) [https://github.com/jackbridger/streampot](https://githu...
1 u/flik-lab said Hey developers, I made my first VSCode Extention called YOCO (You Only Copy Once) with my friends. If you frequently copy and share code snippets, YOCO will make your life easier by a...

 

Top Comments

score comment
67 u/jessepence said I'm happy to begin to stop caring about things like useCallback and useMemo, but it's hard to get excited about a project solely intended to plug holes in a leaky abstraction.
63 u/markus_obsidian said Yes, this is a bad practice. It was a bad practice in 2004. It is a bad practice in 2024. We do not own these global types. They can be changed upstream by browsers or node at any time. I cite smoo...
31 u/TwiliZant said Arrow function resolve `this` to the value of the lexical environment they are defined in. If you rewrite the second example it might be more clear. this // <-- global object con...
25 u/senocular said Yes its still bad practice. See [smooshgate](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/smooshgate).
19 u/dpistole said dont feed the trolls