philnash

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Generate Related Posts for Your Astro Blog with Vector Search (www.datastax.com)
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__dirname is back in Node.js with ES modules (www.sonarsource.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/11927506

Many times when I’ve tried to write some code in Node.js using ES modules I’ve found myself reaching for __dirname and then looking up how to replace it. Now Node.js, Deno and Bun support import.meta.dirname. Check out the article for more detail.

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__dirname is back in Node.js with ES modules (www.sonarsource.com)
 

Many times when I’ve tried to write some code in Node.js using ES modules I’ve found myself reaching for __dirname and then looking up how to replace it. Now Node.js, Deno and Bun support import.meta.dirname. Check out the article for more detail.

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Creating your own image generation model using JavaScript (dkundel.com)
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Union, intersection, difference, and more are coming to JavaScript Sets (www.sonarsource.com)
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Stop nesting ternaries in JavaScript (www.sonarsource.com)
A comprehensive guide to the dangers of Regular Expressions in JavaScript in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] philnash@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

That’s brilliant!

A comprehensive guide to the dangers of Regular Expressions in JavaScript in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] philnash@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

JavaScript's regex engine isn't the only one to have these problems. There certainly are other implementations, like Re2 and Rust's implementation, that don't have this issue. But they also lack some of the features of the JS implementation too.

A comprehensive guide to the dangers of Regular Expressions in JavaScript in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] philnash@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

While this article is about JavaScript specifically, these issues certainly exist in other regex engines too.

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A comprehensive guide to the dangers of Regular Expressions in JavaScript (www.sonarsource.com)
A comprehensive guide to the dangers of Regular Expressions in JavaScript in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] philnash@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Ah, I didn’t realise there was a regex channel here. Thanks!

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A comprehensive guide to the dangers of Regular Expressions in JavaScript (www.sonarsource.com)
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A comprehensive guide to the dangers of Regular Expressions in JavaScript (www.sonarsource.com)
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Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Polyfills gone rogue (marvinh.dev)
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Typing your JavaScript without writing TypeScript (www.sonarsource.com)
 

This is a follow up to my previous article on how to get more TypeScript benefits in your JavaScript. This goes into how to add types using JSDoc or TypeScript declaration files.

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JavaScript is getting array grouping methods (philna.sh)
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