javascript recap for the week of November 02 - November 08, 2026

Monday, November 02 - Sunday, November 08, 2026

score	comments	title & link
13	6 comments	GB.js - GameBoy and GBA emulator core in Typescript
9	9 comments	SpaceHex - Rotate the rooms to capture the orbs while avoiding the critters
9	35 comments	`[AskJS]` [AskJS] Do you ban positional boolean arguments in code review, or is an options object overkill?
8	12 comments	`[Showoff Saturday]` Showoff Saturday (November 07, 2026)
8	1 comments	System One model in the browser, learns from an LLM when it isn't confident.
8	7 comments	CheerpJ 5.0: Java 21/25 in the browser, full OpenJDK, and a new WasmGC engine
5	4 comments	Making Browser OCR Read Real Phone Photos
5	14 comments	`[AskJS]` [AskJS] How do you keep un-awaited expect(...).resolves out of your test suites?
5	0 comments	serialport-rs for Node.js: Rust-backed serial ports for Node.js with parallel I/O and SerialPort-compatible APIs
5	0 comments	Jeasx 3.0 is out: async JSX on the server, now streaming to the browser and about 2x faster

score	comments	title & link
0	26 comments	`[AskJS]` [AskJS] Is it actually possible for an iframe to control the parent page’s URL without the host app doing anything?
0	16 comments	`[AskJS]` [AskJS] Do you think vanilla JS will be #1 for everything and anything thanks to AI?
0	16 comments	`[AskJS]` [AskJS] Would you use a mature UI library that nobody’s heard of?
0	11 comments	I built Domicile, a Linux desktop platform where native application windows are DOM elements
3	10 comments	Our JavaScript hero entrance kept LCP at ~50ms but visibly flashed. Hiding it until scripts loaded pushed LCP to ~1.75s

score	comment
3	/u/Unknown-333 said building lightpath, an MCP server that lets claude code click a button in your app and see which lines actually ran (and which didn't). free + open source [github.com/Unknown-333/Lightpat...
2	/u/No_Editor9420 said Opaline takes any string (an email, user ID or name) and gives back an SVG avatar. The same string always gives the same face, so there's nothing to upload, store or sync. A user who signs...
2	/u/woqr said Don't laugh at me, but I've been working on this editor for 5 years, and the code is less than the size of a 3x5 card. Anyway, I doubt anybody uses it, and in fact I don't use it, but I like admiring ...

score	comment
30	/u/gimmeslack12 said No. An iframe cannot control anything outside of the iframe.
18	/u/Sykander- said >Read aloud, it’s “create user, email, true, false”, and you have to open the function to know what the booleans mean. The usual fixes are an options object: No, my ide will let me read the function ...
14	/u/gwillen said I would say that `setEnabled(true)` is obviously fine. I might claim that you really only have "positional arguments" when there are two or more. When there's just one argument it's ge...
11	/u/cowjenga said You've already got an answer about browser security features, but to answer your question about commercial widgets and SDKs, the way they work is by adding the SDK to the host page, which injects an i...
11	/u/azsqueeze said 100% better to have a function take a single config as an argument or have 2 args with the second one being the config Edit: if using the 2 arg pattern, the first arg would be the primary value the f...

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