In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about JavaScript runtimes available to use, what to consider, and packages to use.

Show Notes

• 00:10 Welcome
• 01:00 Scott’s glasses
• 03:46 All the runtimes
• Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
• Edge Functions Supabase Docs
• Edge Functions Netlify Docs
• Deno — A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
• Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js | Fastify
• What Is Edge Computing? Alibaba
• 05:15 A note for anyone new to JavaScript
• 08:40 Winter CG
• WinterCG
• 11:05 Fetch
• sindresorhus/ky: JavaScript HTTP client based on the browser Fetch API
• website/src/routes/shows/+page.svelte
• 14:53 URL
• 20:02 addEVentListener
• whatwg/fs · Issue #5 · wintercg/proposal-common-minimum-api · GitHub
• 22:53 Web streams
• Web Streams Explained — Syntax Podcast 587
• 26:03 Structured Clone
• Structured JSON | Worker Tools
• 33:43 What does JSON 5 do?
• 34:48 Markdown flavors
• 36:46 File
• 40:32 AbortController and AbortSignal
• DOM Standard
• DOM Standard
• 42:45 Packages for building
• linkedom - npm
• 44:05 Honking the Hono.dev
• Itty Router
• Itty Dev
• Hono.dev
• 55:25 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Scott: Macro Factor
• Wes: CRP Products

Shameless Plugs

• Scott: Sentry
• Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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