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One Build, Ten Locales: How We Bake Translations at Compile Time Instead of Resolving Them at Runtime

For applications supporting multiple languages, localization architecture can dramatically affect build times, bundle sizes and caching. This technical deep dive explores why one development team chose a custom webpack plugin to c…

Oct 27, 20263 min

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Feb13

Blogs

TypeScript 6.0 Sets Stage for Performance-Focused 7.0

Microsoft has released the beta of TypeScript 6.0, highlighting what the company describes as a transitional moment for the widely used programming language. The release will be th…

3 min

Feb12

Blogs

Arcjet SDKs Make It Simpler for Developers to Include Security Functions

Arcjet this week made available a software development kit (SDK) that makes it simpler for JavaScript developers to embed capabilities such as bot detection, rate limiting, email v…

3 min

Jan05

Blogs

Attackers Testing New Strain of Shai-Hulud on npm: Aikido

Threat actors behind the virulent Shai-Hulud worm that wreaked havoc in open npm repositories toward the end of 2025 apparently are trying out a new strain that comes with slight m…

3 min

Dec06

Blogs

Anthropic Acquires Bun to Accelerate AI Coding Tools

Anthropic says it has acquired Bun, a high-performance JavaScript toolkit, to turbocharge its artificial intelligence (AI) coding capabilities — further underscoring a significant…

3 min

Nov25

Blogs

Second Coming of Shai-Hulud Cyberattack Ravages JavaScript Repositories

A major expansion of the self-propagating Shai-Hulud cyberattack aimed at popular node package managers (npms) used by JavaScript application developers is creating a major headach…

3 min

Oct31

Blogs

Microsoft Engineers Highlight Git Repository Bloat Flaw

A Git functionality shortcoming means Git calculates changes between different versions of the same file, which ultimately creates repository bloat through the excess storage requi…

3 min

Jul02

Blogs

Open-Source Software Community Riled by Yet Another CVE

Another maintainer of an open-source software project has decided to no longer actively update IP address parsing utilities used widely by JavaScript developers.

3 min

Jun28

Cloud Management

Polyfill Becomes a Supply-Chain Risk to 100,000 Websites

A Chinese company in February bought the domain and GitHub account for Polyfill, a popular open-source library used by more than 100,000 websites to deliver JavaScript code.

3 min

Sep06

Blogs

Steady On. We Still Have a Job to Do

AI-generated change is not significantly different than the last couple decades where change has become IT’s constant companion.

3 min

Feb16

Blogs

Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps

In this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI.

3 min

Jan23

Blogs

A DevSecOps Process for Node.js Projects

Node.js is an open source development platform for running JavaScript code on the server side. Node is useful for developing applications that require a persistent browser-server c…

3 min

Dec30

API

Best of 2022: We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji

In this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub.

3 min

Jun13

Application Performance Management/Monitoring

AppSmith Adds Git Support to Low-Code App Dev Framework

AppSmith has added support for Git repositories to an open source framework for building custom applications using a low-code platform based on the JavaScript programming language.…

3 min

May09

API

Stytch Launches New, Flexibility-First SDK

Passwordless solutions have been a trend for a while now, improving user experience (UX) while reducing exposure to common attack vectors. Now, Stytch’s new JavaScript SDK aims to…

3 min

Jan11

Blogs

NPMs Sabotaged as OSS Sustainability Crisis Continues

A long-simmering debate over the sustainability of smaller open source projects moved beyond the theoretical when two widely used open source node packaged modules (npm) were delib…

3 min

Dec09

Application Performance Management/Monitoring

Vercel Acquires Turborepo to Gain Build System

Vercel today announced it has acquired Turborepo, a provider of a build system for JavaScript and TypeScript applications that provides developers with access to an easy-to-use mon…

3 min

Dec03

Blogs

Is TypeScript the New JavaScript?

While JavaScript is frequently the language of choice for all sizes of frontend and backend applications, it’s not the only option; nor is it necessarily the most efficient or cost…

3 min

Nov29

Blogs

WhiteSource Report Finds NPM Vulnerabilities Fixed Fast

WhiteSource today published a report that found most of the vulnerabilities that affect node package managers (NPMs), widely employed to deploy JavaScript applications, are address…

3 min

Nov24

Blogs

WTH? We Wanna WFH | DoD Dual-Sources JWCC | More Nvidia ARM Woes

In this week’s The Long View: Working from home is de rigueur, JEDI redux, and more about Nvidia/Arm.

3 min

Nov18

Blogs

Netlify Acquires OneGraph to Integrate GraphQL APIs

Netlify this week announced it has acquired OneGraph, a provider of a platform that simplifies the integration and management of application programming interfaces (APIs) based on…

3 min

May19

Application Performance Management/Monitoring

Netlify Acquires FeaturePeek to Streamline App Feedback Process

Netlify announced today it has acquired FeaturePeek as part of an effort to make it simpler for DevOps teams to create a portal through which application stakeholders can both insp…

3 min

Mar03

Blogs

Languages and DevOps: Web Development

Web development has changed a lot since DevOps first hit the scene. The languages used have shifted, where languages are used has shifted, the likely back-end hosting environment h…

3 min

Feb26

Blogs

Top Misconceptions About Low-Code Development

Accelerating the pace of development has become one of the biggest goals in DevOps. After all, having teams speed the creation and modification of applications is supposed to be on…

3 min

Latest in JavaScript

Blogs

One Build, Ten Locales: How We Bake Translations at Compile Time Instead of Resolving Them at Runtime

Oct 27, 20263 min