~javascriptweekly | Issue 732 - TC39: No to records and tuples, yes to enums (5)

The ECMAScript Records and Tuples Proposal Has Been Withdrawn — Several years in the making, the record and tuples proposal offered two new deeply immutable data structures to JavaScript, but at this week’s TC39 meeting, the consensus was to drop it.

Plug & Play Image Editor For Your Web App — Save yourself the headache of building an image editor. Import the pintura module, give it an image source, and instantly get features like cropping, rotating, resizing, and annotation. Need help? Support has you covered. Try it for free today.

Hako: A New High-Performance Embeddable JavaScript Engine — A fork of PrimJS (which is, itself, built on top of QuickJS) that compiles down to WebAssembly and can act as a portable, embeddable JavaScript engine for other apps (here’s an example of using it in a Go app).

A Flowing WebGL Gradient, Deconstructed — Even if you don’t want to render a neat plasma-style effect on the Web, this is a wonderfully deep exploration of the math and technology behind doing so using simple GLSL code that could be easily understood by any JavaScript developer.

Advanced React in the Wild — A round-up of case studies showing how five different engineering teams have pushed React to the limit in production and their real-world wins in areas like performance, Core Web Vitals, caching, and more. A lot to enjoy here.