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WTF Wednesday (May 14, 2025)

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• 👤 Posted by: u/AutoModerator
• 📅 Posted on: 5/14/2025
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Your /r/javascript recap for the week of May 05 - May 11, 2025

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• 👤 Posted by: u/subredditsummarybot
• 📅 Posted on: 5/12/2025
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We’re building a decentralized Reddit alternative, fully open-source—JS devs, we need you.

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• 💬 Comments: 51
• 👤 Posted by: u/PlebbitOG
• 📅 Posted on: 5/14/2025
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I made a p2p alternative to discord/slack

• 👍 Upvotes: 16
• 💬 Comments: 4
• 👤 Posted by: u/thebadslime
• 📅 Posted on: 5/15/2025
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SnapDOM is an open source JS tool to convert HTML to images

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• 💬 Comments: 8
• 👤 Posted by: u/tinchox5
• 📅 Posted on: 5/14/2025
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I've started scanning the entire NPM registry for malware and compiling the results

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• 💬 Comments: 3
• 👤 Posted by: u/FatherCarbon
• 📅 Posted on: 5/14/2025
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Real-time Github Analytics with ClickHouse, Redpanda

• 👍 Upvotes: 8
• 💬 Comments: 0
• 👤 Posted by: u/Ok_Mouse_235
• 📅 Posted on: 5/14/2025
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Node.js WhatsApp Socket Library

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• 👤 Posted by: u/Ok-Persimmon-3951
• 📅 Posted on: 5/14/2025
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How the jax.jit() compiler works in jax-js

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• 👤 Posted by: u/fz0718
• 📅 Posted on: 5/14/2025
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JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management

• 👍 Upvotes: 39
• 💬 Comments: 11
• 👤 Posted by: u/feross
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2025
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Built Reactylon: a React + Babylon.js framework for building cross-platform WebXR apps - Feedback welcome!

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• 💬 Comments: 1
• 👤 Posted by: u/Vegetable_Ring2521
• 📅 Posted on: 5/14/2025
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Prefetch based on intent, not hover or viewport entering! - ForesightJS open-source library

• 👍 Upvotes: 18
• 💬 Comments: 10
• 👤 Posted by: u/supersnorkel
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2025
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[AskJS] What’s the weirdest line of code that actually solved a real problem for you?

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• 💬 Comments: 19
• 👤 Posted by: u/PixieE3
• 📅 Posted on: 5/14/2025
• 🏷 Flair: AskJS

I built a small node.js CLI tool to turn markdown into simple docs sites (works with github pages & open source)

• 👍 Upvotes: 4
• 💬 Comments: 6
• 👤 Posted by: u/ivoin
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2025
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I built a MCP Chat client from scratch using. Nextjs and Composio

• 👍 Upvotes: 4
• 💬 Comments: 2
• 👤 Posted by: u/SunilKumarDash
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2025
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scira-multilingual – Making AI search available in 14 languages

• 👍 Upvotes: 0
• 💬 Comments: 3
• 👤 Posted by: u/littleyauty
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2025
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Package that auto-generates time zone data from IANA DB weekly

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• 👤 Posted by: u/RealFlaery
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2025
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I think the ergonomics of generators is growing on me.

• 👍 Upvotes: 58
• 💬 Comments: 66
• 👤 Posted by: u/alexmacarthur
• 📅 Posted on: 5/12/2025
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[AskJS] General question

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• 💬 Comments: 5
• 👤 Posted by: u/AdAutomatic5665
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2025
• 🏷 Flair: AskJS

[AskJS] JavaScript: It's easy to start, hard to master.

• 👍 Upvotes: 0
• 💬 Comments: 11
• 👤 Posted by: u/RohanSinghvi1238942
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2025
• 🏷 Flair: AskJS

[AskJS] Any recommendations for a light weight dataframe package with good typing for browser env?

• 👍 Upvotes: 2
• 💬 Comments: 4
• 👤 Posted by: u/hillac
• 📅 Posted on: 5/12/2025
• 🏷 Flair: AskJS

How V8 JavaScript Engine Works Behind the Scenes

• 👍 Upvotes: 14
• 💬 Comments: 1
• 👤 Posted by: u/FederalRace5393
• 📅 Posted on: 5/11/2025
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Jeasx 1.8.0 released - JSX as a server-side rendering framework on top of Fastify & esbuild

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• 💬 Comments: 1
• 👤 Posted by: u/-jeasx-
• 📅 Posted on: 5/12/2025
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Expand the List of Recurring Dates Easily with recur-date-based.

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• 💬 Comments: 0
• 👤 Posted by: u/Mediocre-Chocolate33
• 📅 Posted on: 5/12/2025
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[AskJS] Code Plausibility Question

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• 💬 Comments: 4
• 👤 Posted by: u/Datboi01X
• 📅 Posted on: 5/11/2025
• 🏷 Flair: AskJS

neverever: No bullshit Option<T> and Result<T, E> types for TypeScript

• 👍 Upvotes: 33
• 💬 Comments: 71
• 👤 Posted by: u/Borderlinerr
• 📅 Posted on: 5/10/2025
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[AskJS] why do you choose (or avoid) JavaScript on the backend?

• 👍 Upvotes: 26
• 💬 Comments: 97
• 👤 Posted by: u/FederalRace5393
• 📅 Posted on: 5/10/2025
• 🏷 Flair: AskJS