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The 2025 JavaScript Rising Stars
At the start of each year, Michael rounds up the projects in the JavaScript ecosystem that gained the most popularity on GitHub in the prior year. After a two-year run of topping the chart, shadcn/ui has been pushed down to #3 by n8n and React Bits. This is a fantastic roundup, now in its tenth(!) year, and features commentary from a few industry experts too.
MicroQuickJS: A New JavaScript Engine from Fabrice Bellard
Fabrice, one of the world’s most prolific developers well-known for creating FFmpeg, QEMU and QuickJS, is back with a new JavaScript engine targeting embedded systems, and that can run with as little as 10KB of RAM.
How to Compile JavaScript to C with Static Hermes
The creator of Parcel is porting parts of the project to Rust, but this raises some challenges on interoperating with existing JavaScript plugins, especially without a runtime JS interpreter. What about compiling JavaScript to C libraries that can be called directly? It’s possible!
🦖 Build a Dinosaur Runner Game with Deno
An ongoing series of posts (part two and three are also available) on the official Deno blog where you get to recreate something akin to Chrome’s Dinosaur Game for yourself.
Why Object of Arrays (SoA Pattern) Beat Interleaved Arrays
A dive down a JavaScript performance rabbit hole.
SurveyJS: JavaScript Libraries for Custom Web Forms
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