Toronto JS TL;DR Issue #13
🍾 This year, wrapped 🍾
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ― Douglas Adams
Well, we’ve reached the last issue of TL;DR of the year, and the first that’s a week late! Oops! But we made it to 13 issues. Not bad! Perhaps we can double it next year.
Also, wow… what a wild year for our industry.
After years of growth, we’ve had the highest layoffs since the dotcom bubble in 2001. Many of which due to macro-economic trends, but of course also many companies taking advantage the downturn to get rid of people at a time everyone else does.
Many of us have felt the effects, either by being laid off and trying to find land the next gig or in our network. I wasn’t spared myself! Certainly a humbling experience.
So here’s hoping for a better year! We’re not out of the woods yet.
Upcoming events
We have one last JS Code Club: Online this year, happening this Saturday, the 23rd. Do you have a fun holiday project? This might be a great place to kick it off.
In the next year our first event will be a new Code Buddy event on Discord. Code Buddy is like a book club, but instead of books the group will study tutorials and courses together. This is happening January 16th. Read all about it on Guild.
The year in JS - Marco Campos
2023 went so fast, it seems like January 1st was yesterday! Lots of things happened on the web recently, so here are some reviews and highlights:
Let's start with this very thorough review from Kevin Powell on the new things happening in CSS in 2023:
Safari (and in turn every browser on iOS) are getting even better support for PWAs, making them almost usable in iOS.
Here is a overview from WWDC 2023: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10120
On JS land, here is another video with a bit of irony on the changes in Javascript this year:
On a more serious note, for all of you working with node and typescript: update to the latest LTS (version 20), set type: module on your package.json, and set module: nodenext and target: es2022 on your tsconfig.json.
This will ensure you will have native ES modules running on node with the least amount of compilation from typescript. It will save you a lot of headaches with edge cases and quirks on module resolution and async code… ask me how I know! 🙃
Happy holidays!
Hope you all get the rest you deserve and an excellent 2024, from Drey, Marco & Evert and all of the Toronto JS volunteer team!