~javascriptweekly | Issue 733 - Bring back the fun with p5.js 2.0 (13)

p5.js 2.0: The JavaScript Library for Creative Coding — A popular Processing-inspired creative coding library that makes it easy to create interactive, visual experiences (examples). v2.0 improves its font support, adds more ways to draw and manipulate text, adds a way to write shaders in JavaScript, and much more. p5.js 2.0: You Are Here has more details on the release and where the project...

Unbork Your Laravel App (Live) — Laravel is so in right now. Join us for a hands-on debugging session using a demo app, Unborked. We’ll track errors, replay sessions, trace slowdowns, and maybe even let the robots help. Bring your bugs.

Big Updates in the React World — You know it’s been a big week in the React world when the React Compiler hitting Release Candidate is the second most important story. In this latest React Labs post, we learn about two new features ready to try out today in react@experimental: View Transitions and the <Activity> component.

Creating a 3D Split-Flap Display with JavaScript — A split-flap display is a electro-mechanical display commonly associated with live timetable displays and it makes for a neat effect on the Web too. Jhey breaks down how to replicate it, or you can hit up this live demo.

Impossible Components — Dan Abramov digs into the idea of so-called ‘impossible’ components that mix server-only and client-only features and how React Server Components can help bridge the divide, culminating in an example you can experiment with for yourself.

How to Build a Multi-Tenant App Using Clerk + Supabase — Clerk and Supabase empower you to build B2B apps with only a few small changes to your codebase. Learn how in this guide.

Optimizing Node Performance with V8 GC Optimization — Matteo recently ▶️ gave a talk about Node’s memory usage and has written it up into this blog post. He notes that high memory usage doesn’t necessarily mean you have a memory leak, explains how V8’s garbage collection works, and how to tune things for your own use case.

Abusing DuckDB-WASM by Making SQL Draw 3D Graphics (Sort Of) — Oh, this is a fun experiment. DuckDB is a small and powerful in-process SQL database (think SQLite but for analytical tasks) and has a native WebAssembly build. Couple that with some JavaScript, and you too could do some rather bizarre things..

JavaScript Font Picker — A surprisingly featureful control for letting users pick fonts from a range of system fonts, Google fonts, and custom fonts of your choice. You can play with a code demo here or go to the GitHub repo.

Scala.js 1.19.0: A Way to Bring Scala and JavaScript Together — Scala is a powerful language that never quite seemed to make it big to me, but it has a devoted fanbase and has grown beyond its JVM roots to also have JavaScript and native runtimes. Scala.js is a Scala to JavaScript compiler and the homepage has some neat code and feature comparisons.

Penpot Launches Native Design Tokens! — Simplify your design & code collaboration with Penpot design tokens: the key to consistency and scalability.

Spectacle: Create Sleek React-Powered Presentations — A React-based library for creating sleek presentations using JSX syntax that gives you the ability to live demo your code, add interactive elements, scrollable code blocks, graphics effects, and more.

Frimousse: A Lightweight, Unstyled, and Composable Emoji Picker for React — The picker is accessible and won’t display any emojis that aren’t supported on the device. You can explore some demos here.