Welcome to a new year of programming and the brand new monthly list of JavaScript stories just for developers! Among the highlights of this new year: Svelte and SvelteKit have seen a slew of incremental improvements, Astro.js 5.0 just hit, and the Next.js team is working on a composable caching mechanism.
Meanwhile, we revisit the old “Is JavaScript dead?” canard, respectfully consider TypeScript (a valid replacement if you’re looking), and put the whole thing to bed with a look at two recent developer community surveys. Also, scroll down for a couple of solid tutorials and a deep dive into SEO for web developers.
Top picks for JavaScript readers on InfoWorld
Just say no to JavaScriptStarting the new year with a bang, InfoWorld’s Nick Hodges vents his critiques about the lingua franca of the web—or as he puts it, the assembly language of web browsers. My take? The one thing that keeps developers loving JavaScript is its flexibility, and that’s not going anywhere.