Exciting! Exciting? !Exciting

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Nick is excited to explain CVA to us like we’re five (then again like we’re 41).
KBall is excited to share details of his new stack (for the new app he’s building).
Jerod is excited to share some recent news items (but he’s the only one).

And finally, we’re all excited to debate TypeScript vs JSDoc comments!

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Class Variance Authority
• KBall’s new stack
  • QwikCity
  • Joist-ORM
• Bun’s new bundler
• MDN’s new Baseline
• JavaScript’s new frontend framework: VanJS
  • kriszyp/put-selector
  • Rich Harris quote

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - It's party time, y'all
(00:46) - Let's get excited
(02:28) - CVA... ELI5!
(08:11) - CVA... ELI41!
(11:50) - Cleanup in aisle Tailwind
(15:12) - @apply vs CVA
(18:10) - Type safe composition
(19:51) - Sponsor: Changelog News
(21:44) - KBall's new stack
(26:25) - GenAI diversion
(27:17) - KBall's full stack
(31:20) - KBall's new app
(35:11) - Coding: the fun parts
(41:12) - Bun's new bundler
(44:14) - MDN's new Baseline
(48:24) - VanJS
(52:50) - TypeScript vs JSDoc
(58:09) - Dance it out
(58:42) - Next up on the pod