Summer is here, and welcome to the first issue of TorontoJS TL;DR. This is the Toronto Javascript newsletter, by you for you.

Our goal with this newsletter to is keep you apprised of what’s going on with TorontoJS and provide a spotlight of your projects. If you have anything to share for the next edition, find us on the TorontoJS slack.

Upcoming events

We got a packed schedule the next few weeks, with 4 TorontoJS events:

Also happening in Toronto that might be worth a look:

The React Developer’s Guide to OAuth2 - June 29 - TOMORROW! - Organized by the React + Native group.
Refactor DX - July 12-13 - A conference in Toronto about Developer Tooling. Use the “TORONTOJS” coupon code to get 30% off your ticket!

Projects from the community

Peter Liu made a Runescape-inspired Minesweeper game. Did anyone else not know you could right-click to mark squares as bombs? When I first played this I just randomly pressed anywhere in hopes I would get it right.

A screenshot of RuneSweeper, a Runescape inspired Minesweeper game.

Elizabeth McCready talks about creating desktop layouts from first principles in her article “Creating a Simple Desktop Layout in CSS with Just an H1 and One Paragraph”

Philippe Schwyter shared that he’s working on a slack bot for generating images like Giphy, but instead using DALL-E.

Marco Campos wrote about “Web Components: A (Not So) Gentle Introduction”.

What’s new in Javascript?

We’re getting a new keyword using, existing alongside var, let and const, which has the unique property that it lets library developers ‘do something’ when a symbol goes out of scope.

The news is that this will be part of the next Typescript 5.2 release, and sparked some interesting discussions on the TorontoJS Slack. Read all about it on: Total Typescript.

Last week, Svelte released version 4 of their frontend framework. The release seems mostly incremental with a focus on performance improvements and the Developer experience.

Jobs

If you have an open Job Posting relevant to the members of our community, please send an email to events@torontojs.com.

We’d love to link it in our next newsletter at no cost.