Web Tools #521 - JS Libraries, Git/CLI Tools, Uncats

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Issue #521 • July 13, 2023

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In case you missed it, JavaScript's try-catch statement has recently been given an optional new feature that can allow you to create cleaner try-catch blocks.

Normally, a try-catch statement looks something like this:

try {
  myFunction();
} catch (error{
  // do something if an error is thrown
}

Notice the parentheses next to the "catch" statement. These are used to pass in the optional "error" object, which you can name whatever you want. It's often passed in as "error" or something similar that's easy to understand. Then you can deal with it inside the catch block.

But now all modern browsers support what's called optional catch binding. This means the parentheses that pass the error object can be optionally omitted in cases where you don't need to use the error object.

MDN's article on try-catch uses this example to demonstrate:

function isValidJSON(text) {
  try {
    JSON.parse(text);
    return true;
  } catch {
    return false;
  }
}

You can see this code doesn't need the error object so the parentheses are omitted and instead the block simply returns false when there's an error.

The only thing I'm unsure of is how an older browser would handle this. I would assume this is backwards compatible and won't cause any problems but it's good to test just in case, if possible.

Nonetheless, this seems like a small but useful feature that you may not have seen before to clean up your try-catch blocks.

Now on to this week's tools!
 

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JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks

Space.js
One of two sibling libraries based on Three.js, one for creating "future" UIs and panel components and the other called Alien.js for 3D utilities, materials, shaders, and physics.

DeviceScript
A library and toolset that brings a TypeScript developer experience to low-resource microcontroller-based devices (that is, IoT devices).

Brilliant
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Garph
A full-stack GraphQL framework for TypeScript that aims to deliver the best GraphQL developer experience.

Neuledge
A TypeScript-based toolkit that streamlines database modeling with clear data entity definitions, customizable validation, and advanced business-logic representation.

Orillusion
A pure Web3D rendering engine, based on the WebGPU standard, that aims to achieve desktop-level rendering effects and supports 3D rendering of complex scenes in the browser.

VanJS
An ultra-lightweight, zero-dependency, and unopinionated reactive UI framework based on pure vanilla JavaScript and DOM, similar to React but without JSX.

VanJS

UnsuckJS
Not a single tool but a directory that displays a comparison table of some of the more popular "lightweight" JavaScript libraries that don't require build tools or compilers.

replicad
An abstraction over a CAD library called Open CASCADE, to build browser based 3D models.

OpenAPI Stack
A collection of open source libraries and tools for full stack Typescript development inspired by modern alternatives like GraphQL and tRPC.

On the Release Radar:

Git, GitHub, and CLI Tools

Maverick
An AI-based GitHub app that provides automated code review for your GitHub pull requests, to catch early issues that may arise from mistakes and conflicts.

Inquirer
A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces that include input, select, checkbox, confirm, password, and more.

chalk-animation
An npm package that provides colorful animations in your terminal's output, including rainbow, pulse, radar, glitch, neon, and karaoke.

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try
A Shell program that lets you run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system.

AI Files
A ChatGPT-based CLI tool that helps you organize and manage your files, and uses Pandoc, ExifTool, and some other dependencies.

Featurevisor
A CLI tool to manage your feature flags, experiments, and remote configuration declaratively from your Git repository.

Featurevisor

Ink UI
A collection of customizable UI components for CLIs made with Ink (the popular React library for building command-line apps).

Manter
A terminal app built with Svelte and Rust to enhance the terminal experience with features like autocomplete, current branch display, reusable scripts, and more.

Tiny Bin
A JS/TS multi-featured, dependency-free library for building tiny and beautiful command line apps.

dns-detector
A tiny, dependency-free CLI tool built with Node.js to resolve host IPs and find the fastest IP.

README-template
A starter template for a README for a GitHub repository or similar project, that includes a number of standard sections often used in project READMEs.

bruno
A new and innovative open-source, Git-friendly API client, aimed at revolutionizing the status quo represented by Postman and similar tools.

 

The Uncategorizables

Fern
An open-source toolkit for designing, building, and consuming REST APIs, to generate client libraries, API documentation, and boilerplate for your backend server.

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MDN Playground
A new live coding playground from Mozilla that lets you write and execute HTML, CSS, and JavaScript experiments in the browser.

Comic Mono
A legible monospace font based on the ever-hated Comic Sans, and is actually a fork of another similar project.

Scrapscript
A tiny programming language and messaging notation, described as "JSON with types and functions and hashed references."

Scrapscript

Jellyfin
A cross-platform native server that enables you to collect, manage, and stream your media collection, with official and third-party apps to access your media from anywhere.

ChromeStats
An all-in-one platform to compare and analyze Chrome extensions, for competitor research, risk analysis, and growth tracking.

Typewolf
An all-in-one resource for everything related to what's trending and new in fonts, font pairings, typography checklists, and more.

onsheets.io
An online app to convert Google Sheets data to REST APIs.

Hiber3D
A developer kit to quickly and easily build interactive 3D worlds and publish them directly to the web for seamless performance across mobile, tablet and desktop.

WriteFreely
A clean, Markdown-based publishing platform for building a writing space on the web.

Javy
A JavaScript to WebAssembly toolchain that takes your JavaScript code and executes it in a WebAssembly embedded JavaScript runtime.
 

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A Tweet for Thought

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A Tweet for Thought
 

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