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While the JavaScript conversation often seems to boild down to which framework to pick, it's worth remembering that there's a whole galaxy of other tools, services, and platforms to explore beyond that!
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We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2023 Pick: Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem

Started in late 2022, this ongoing article series by Preact developer Marvin Hagemeister reveals time-inefficient elements in modern JavaScript projects and approaches. It is truly a fascinating piece for performance-conscious professionals.
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

Alina Listunova

Front-end Developer, Technical Translator 🇺🇦

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We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2023 Pick: Claudio Wunder

Claudio is a superb person. He helped me to grow as a dev, but he also made it possible to redesign the Node website, thanks to his leadership skills. And he continues to push the Node project forward.
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

Augustin Mauroy

Web developer and an OSS enthusiast

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Which of these AI tools do you regularly use to help you write code?
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Which of these services have you used to host JavaScript apps?
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Sharing this survey on Twitter, Facebook, or by email is scientifically proven to improve your coding performance by up to 15%.
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2023 Pick: Rspack

Rspack is a Rust-based web bundler with extremely excellent performance. By using Rust, it has solved a large number of performance bottlenecks of JS bundler. And it can be compatible with the ecosystem of webpack.
We asked members of the JavaScript community to share their “pick of the year”

shadowingszy

Architect of Datawhale, senior front-end R&D engineer of ByteDance

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