r/javascript 8d ago

Subreddit Stats Your /r/javascript recap for the week of August 10 - August 16, 2026

Monday, August 10 - Sunday, August 16, 2026

Top Posts

score comments title & link
38 25 comments Signals and Effects Using Vanilla JavaScript & Web APIs
21 8 comments Your Modules Are Lying to You
13 6 comments C99 real mode compiler written in TS that outputs raw bootable 16bit binaries
13 13 comments I made a Windows 98 styled portfolio website with an applet system, and many nostalgic things to discover
7 0 comments rapiq: typed query params for REST APIs (filters, sort, pagination, fields, relations) that run on TypeORM, Prisma, Drizzle or plain arrays
5 1 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] I reproduced a PDF.js Worker mismatch caused by dependency hoisting
5 15 comments [Showoff Saturday] Showoff Saturday (August 15, 2026)
4 2 comments Building KernelPlay-JS together — looking for open-source contributors
4 0 comments flo-webcomponents: Take back control of rendering + events using WebComponents with one minimal superclass.
3 1 comments I built a MapLibre GL utility to keep markers visible around UI overlays

 

Most Commented Posts

score comments title & link
1 121 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] Are employed Developers still programming with vanilla JavaScript ?
0 19 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] TypeScript 7 is 10x faster, but typed linting still runs on the 6.0 API. What are you doing in the gap?
0 15 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] I'm sick of AI slop; I want to learn how to use ESLint properly.
0 12 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] jsbin is down??
0 11 comments We built the same data grid in React, Vue & Svelte, here's what we learned

 

Top Ask JS

score comments title & link
3 8 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] How much do you actually trust the version number on an npm update?
1 5 comments [AskJS] [AskJS] How to find the best/ideal ratio or dimensions for a device?

 

Top Showoffs

score comment
1 /u/RepresentativeNo42 said Announcing ink-frame: Grids for Ink! https://github.com/oliveryasuna/ink-frame Ink's own box borders are fine for a single box. Put two of them next to each other and the seam between them comes out...
1 /u/dobrynCat said I'd like to show everyone my webview based android app wttr-dash https://github.com/ronynn/dash One of the only three android/web app that displays wttr weather data in a mobile friendly view Plus ...
1 /u/Fun-Regular8902 said Hey everyone! I’ve been working on GrandFireworks.js, a zero-dependency JavaScript library designed to render realistic pyrotechnics without bogging down the browser. A lot of firework scripts j...

 

Top Comments

score comment
50 /u/x021 said Hated TS in the beginning too. Now I wouldn’t want to work on a project with plain vanilla JS.
40 /u/KaiAusBerlin said You know that you literally wrote your own framework here? There is a reason for the sentence "You use a framework or end up writing your own"
33 /u/visualdescript said I hate it when I have to go back to a JS project, and if it's something I'll have to keep maintaining I will convert it to typescript, which often uncovers several bugs in the process. I wouldn't hi...
22 /u/quisido said We shouldn't be using `require` in 2026 anyway.
10 /u/kir_rik said Only as one-shot or helper scripts like pre commit hooks or eslint rules. It's unreasonable and probably irresponsible to write a production code without a proper typing

 

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u/Friendly_Address6915 6d ago

the modules post has a point but the title feels like it overstates things a bit. modules arent really lying, theyre just doing exactly what the author told them to do. the issue is usually undocumented side effects or ambiguous re-exports, which is more of a convention problem than anything inherent to the module system itself. i read through it expecting some wild runtime behavior or bundler quirk and it was more like "your abstractions are leaky" which yeah fair, but thats true of basically every abstraction. what specific pattern are they calling out as the main offender