Your Weekly JavaScript Digest – Must-Read Articles & Updates
Welcome to this week’s edition of the JavaScript Friday Links! Whether you're a frontend developer, backend expert, or just exploring the world of JavaScript, we've got you covered. This week’s roundup includes must-read articles, exciting tools, and insightful discussions shaping the JavaScript ecosystem.
📜 Articles & Tutorials
Ramda.js: Enhancing Array and Object Operations in JavaScript
Ramda.js is a powerful functional programming library for JavaScript. Unlike Lodash, it focuses on code purity, supports currying, and ensures data immutability.
Key Features
Currying
Allows calling functions step by step:
1 import * as R from 'ramda';2 const add = R.add(10);3 console.log(add(5)); // 15
Function Composition
Replaces .map().filter().reduce() chains with more readable code:
1 const normalizeNames = R.pipe(2 R.map(R.trim),3 R.map(R.toLower),4 R.filter(name => name.length > 3)5 );
Working with APIs
Filtering active users and normalizing their names:
1 const processUsers = R.pipe(2 R.filter(R.propEq('active', true)),3 R.map(R.pipe(R.prop('name'), R.trim, R.toLower))4 );
Objects: assoc, dissoc, evolve
Modify objects without mutations:
1 const user = { id: 1, name: 'Alice', age: 25 };2 const updatedUser = R.assoc('status', 'active', user);3 const withoutAge = R.dissoc('age', updatedUser);
Data Grouping
1 const groupedOrders = R.groupBy(R.prop('status'), orders);
When is Ramda Not Needed?
For simple operations, standard methods like map, filter, and reduce are often more convenient. Ramda is beneficial for complex transformations, ensuring immutability, and writing declarative code.
Build your own chrome extension
Frontend Automation with Github Actions and AWS
React Image Editor: Load and Save Images from a Database Easily
Fuzz Testing REST APIs in Node.js
A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More!
Micro Frontends with Angular and Native Federation
Building a VSCode Chat Extension to Order Lunch
Building a Telegram Clone with Next.js and TailwindCSS - Part One, two, three
⚒️ Tools
Modern fluid typography editor
lume: A lightweight CLI and local API server to create, run and manage macOS and Linux virtual machines (VMs) natively on Apple Silicon.
Agno: A lightweight library for building Multimodal Agents with memory, knowledge and tools.
ricochet: A peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services.
📚 Libs
Usertour: An alternative to: Appcues, Userpilot, Userflow, userguiding, Chameleon , Etc...
Algora TV: A React component to embed a live streaming video player.
Drag-and-Drop-Email-Designer: A drag and drop email designer for SES.
Pruvious: A reliable CMS for your Nuxt app.
webjsx: A library for building web applications with JSX and Web Components.
kreuzberg: A text extraction library supporting PDFs, images, office documents and more
Memory: A self-hosted editor and note taking app.
InfoShop: Free and open source laravel + Inertia JS (React JS) Point of Sale platform
fast-png:PNG image decoder and encoder written entirely in JavaScript.
mercurius: A GraphQL HTTP Server for Fastify with TypeScript and hooks support.
⌚ Releases
AI SDK 4.1: Vercel AI SDK 4.1 is out with new features and improvements.
Astro 5.4: Astro 5.4 is out with new features and improvements.
📺 Videos
How To Setup Rich Text Editor In Next.js Build your first MCP Server in TypeScript
New React Animation API Is Insane
The BEST UI Animation Library of 2025? 🤯 You NEED to See This!
Using web sockets on Next.js | NO third party solution
CSS Clamp: Responsive design in one line
Stream Video In React & Next.js OPTIMALLY (WebM, CDN, m3u8 / HLS / ABS, ImageKit)
How to create a Glassmorph Navbar (Next.js 15, Shadcn, Tailwind)
The Ultimate React Native Course | Build Your First Mobile App in 2025
Fix Your Slow React App With React-Scan
Claude 3.7 goes hard for programmers…
This one tool forever changed how I use Docker
Ultimate Next 15 Course: Build a YouTube Clone (2025)
🎤 Talks & Podcasts
Beyond Aesthetics: What the Next Generation of Frameworks Should Offer - JsJ_670
AI Has Broken the Web Developer Job Market w/ Kent C. Dodds
🗞️ News & Updates
Tailwind UI is now Tailwind Plus - Tailwind UI is now Tailwind Plus, with new features and improvements.
That’s a wrap for this week’s JavaScript roundup! Stay ahead of the curve by exploring these resources and keeping up with the latest trends. See you next Friday for more essential JavaScript insights!