JetBrains JavaScript Day 2024
2024-10-24
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[JetBrains JavaScript Day 2021, JetBrains JavaScript Day 2022, JetBrains JavaScript Day 2023, JetBrains JavaScript Day 2024, JetBrains JavaScript Day 2025]
as the organisers put it
JetBrains JavaScript Day is back for its fifth year, and as always, we are ready to get you up to speed with the latest trends and answer all your questions about modern JavaScript development.
who it's for
frontend developers, typescript developers, web tooling engineers, framework maintainers, library authors, open source maintainers, developer productivity engineers
topics
oxc parser and transformer; rodn bundler performance; Vite unified toolchain; const type parameters; noinfer inference control; React 19 actions and compiler; TypeScript generics patterns; WebStorm Deno integration; Nx monorepo library publishing; Angular signals and template evolution; open source maintainer crisis; CSS :has and native patterns
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| JetBrains JavaScript Day 2024 | Evan You, Josh Goldberg, Bekah Hawrot Weigel, Kevin Powell, Shruti Kapoor, Chau Tran, Jeremy Elbourn, Danny Thompson | 07h 57m |
JetBrains announces WebStorm free for non‑commercial use; Vite reports 15M+ weekly npm downloads and funds Vo (seed $4.6M) to build a unified toolchain: Oxc… | ||
| Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling | Evan You | 42m |
Vite reaches 15M+ weekly npm downloads after four years and the team raises $4.6M to unify tooling. They build a native toolchain around oxc parser and a new… | ||
| TypeScript Generics: Practical Fun! | Josh Goldberg | 40m |
Covers concrete TypeScript recipes: writing generic interfaces and functions like a createBox and createState, typing an identity and a get(key) that uses… | ||
| The Silent Open Source Crisis: When Maintainers Walk Away | Bekah Hawrot Weigel | 41m |
May 2022 sees the primary maintainer of node-pre-gyp step down and the package effectively stalls until June 2024 meaning node-pre-gyp sat without a maintainer… | ||
| You Don’t Need JavaScript for That | Kevin Powell | 39m |
Claims that many interactions can be done without JS, then shows working demos: smooth scrolling with CSS plus scroll-padding to avoid hidden headers; form… | ||
| Ask Me Anything (AMA) With the WebStorm Team | 44m | |
WebStorm adds concrete support for Deno via the Deno plugin and close collaboration with the Deno team, and ships Svelte 5 syntax and ESLint 9 handling; a new… | ||
| Everything You Need to Know About React 19 | Shruti Kapoor | 38m |
React 19 is in RC and introduces concrete changes: form Actions are async functions (can run inside startTransition) so forms submit via an action attribute… | ||
| Driving Your JavaScript Library Ecosystem With Nx | Chau Tran | 40m |
Demonstrates running an Angular library ecosystem inside a single Nx Workspace that produces publishable packages, a Storybook, docs site and a demo app; shows… | ||
| Evolving Angular for the Long Run | Jeremy Elbourn | 41m |
Angular recounts 31,293 changes since its early days and argues for incremental, evidence-driven evolution: Ivy refactor took three years, control flow… | ||
| TypeScript and Your Codebase: They Deserve Each Other! | Danny Thompson | 40m |
Argues TypeScript accelerates onboarding and prevents real bugs with data: npm downloads rise from ~19M to ~63M in 2022–2024, TypeScript ranks among top… | ||
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