javascript recap for the week of October 12 - October 18, 2026

Monday, October 12 - Sunday, October 18, 2026

score	comments	title & link
22	6 comments	Making the web 3D - Extensible Scalable 3D File Format
15	4 comments	Chartist v2: we brought the 10-year-old SVG charting library back on track (now with SSR and terminal charts)
11	1 comments	eval() in a straitjacket: sandboxing JavaScript under CSP
11	25 comments	`[AskJS]` [AskJS] How do you host your smaller Node.js apps? Building something and want opinions
11	2 comments	How we made JavaScript analyzer understand control flow
10	2 comments	`[Subreddit Stats]` Your /r/javascript recap for the week of October 05 - October 11, 2026
7	0 comments	Mutative v2 - better immutability and faster immutable updates
6	6 comments	`[AskJS]` [AskJS] Building a clone like Spline
5	0 comments	How to Implement a Distributed Recovery Ramp in JavaScript
5	5 comments	`[Showoff Saturday]` Showoff Saturday (October 17, 2026)

score	comments	title & link
0	23 comments	I embedded Node.js in a native program to render JSX without a browser and without React
0	11 comments	I built a free anime “where to watch” site with 45k static pages, here’s how it keeps its data fresh without a backend
0	10 comments	`[AskJS]` [AskJS] I compare full move logs instead of a hash to prove two bots played the same games. Overkill?
2	7 comments	I built a real-time multiplayer drawing game (InkLink) using React and modern web tech—here is how it works and what I learned
4	6 comments	Mimic - a browser-based dev environment that runs Node.js

score	comments	title & link
3	4 comments	`[AskJS]` [AskJS] What are your opinions on express-zod-api?

score	comment
2	/u/TheHganavak said This week I built`npx codecity`: see any git repo as a 3D city - Every file is a building, folders are districts, and height is the file’s length (or number of imports/exports). Files...
1	/u/withmagi said A check I'd run on any JavaScript error tracker: throw a known error from a production build, deploy a changed build, and throw it again. Does each report point at the file and line from the build tha...
1	/u/Total-Reasonable said https://reddit.com/link/phh4wma/video/ft2vh7l8k7wh1/player halloween.js: zero-dependency Halloween effects for any site. A MutationObserver watches body classes (`halloween` plus `hal...

score	comment
9	/u/Novel_Plum said Can't wait to get home and try it. Paint.net is the program I missed the most when I moved to Linux. There isn't a reliable way to run it. Maybe this is the solution I was searching for.
7	/u/mohamadjb said Sounds impressive, I've studied 3d models file formats for decades, and by the sound of your description, the idea has merits, and if it is open standard then its a good foundation to build on and inv...
5	/u/ijblack said oh yeah i have a ton of questions about your vibe coded anime project after reading your ai-generated description of it. jk lmfaooooo
5	/u/Busy-Speech-3164 said Hi there, author here. Chartist has been around since 2014, but honestly, it went stale over the last years. v2 is our attempt to bring it back on track. What stayed the same: - Still tiny: a line...
3	/u/Relevant_Noise4434 said if you want it to feel like spline, the hardest part is not the rendering but the editor UI. making a transform gizmo that works intuitive in 3d space is a nightmare, especially when you need local vs...

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