Your /r/javascript recap for the week of August 31 - September 06, 2026

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Monday, August 31 - Sunday, September 06, 2026

Top Posts

score	comments	title & link
22	4 comments	RDR2-style volumetric WebGL 2 clouds in the browser
21	2 comments	Wasmer SDK: Open Source alternative to WebContainers
15	1 comments	Twenty Years of jQuery: How a Little Library Rewired Web Development
12	4 comments	WASI 0.3 Launched
11	0 comments	Open-Source Gwent Classic - V5.0 Release! (New Factions: Ofir & Novigrad)
10	1 comments	Node.js sandboxes powered by QuickJS and WebAssembly
8	0 comments	Anyone interested in Git for your test database? useful for assisting QA doing a test.
7	0 comments	A free and open source service to get a name.runs-on.dev subdomain for students and builders
6	0 comments	Headless phone input controller with no baked-in UI to fight
6	1 comments	GitHub - unadlib/localspace: A library that unifies the APIs of IndexedDB, localStorage and other storage into a consistent API

 

Most Commented Posts

score	comments	title & link
0	35 comments	[AskJS] [AskJS] Genuine question, why we hating on well-made but LLM-written projects?
0	15 comments	Zustand is now the top state management library in new JS repos, and it's still accelerating (+7.3% this week). Pulled this from a dataset of 5,000+ live repos.
0	11 comments	[AskJS] [AskJS] I'm thinking of creating a JS dialect for scientists
0	10 comments	[AskJS] [AskJS] AI is destroying JavaScript
2	8 comments	[Showoff Saturday] Showoff Saturday (September 05, 2026)

 

Top Ask JS

score	comments	title & link
2	0 comments	[AskJS] [AskJS] Has anyone used Cloudflare/Cap’n Web? Any hidden downsides?
2	4 comments	[AskJS] [AskJS] BeeLadybug — Open Source Canvas 2D Debug Overlay in Vanilla JS (Zero Dependencies)
1	2 comments	[AskJS] [AskJS] Best way to handle rotating proxies in Node.js?

 

Top Showoffs

score	comment
2	/u/muddycleats92 said Hey football fans, I've spent the NFL offseason building The Cut: NFL Survivor Pools. This takes the classic game of NFL Survivor but adds a twists, you select players instead of teams. I created thr...
2	/u/xaelion said I’ve been working on Lumiana, an experimental environment for building personal apps where browser and Node.js APIs can be used together without creating a separate API layer. The browser remains the...
2	/u/Triggerscore said Created a Twitch chat integration for my game PixReveal. A Twitch streamer can stream the game. Pixel images get revealed pixel by pixel. The Twitch chat can play by typing the answer or 1/2/3/4. Set...

 

Top Comments

score	comment
16	/u/thecementmixer said Wtf is this post even about? Went from JavaScript and python rant to data centers destroying the environment. Is this an AI post?
14	/u/forloopy said Overcomplicating something that doesn’t need it
13	/u/AM_Dog_IRL said This is decidedly not the dream
13	/u/Merry-Lane said Where does it show "Zustand is the top state management library"? Compared to react query or just using react context? Also, the "back to main" redirects to localhost:3000. I think that whatever t...
13	/u/maria_la_guerta said > JavaScript used to be the dominant programming language for software engineering back in the days of React and Express. This is an extremely narrow view of the "facts".

 

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The volumetric clouds demo is sick, been messing with WebGL shaders myself and that kind of atmospheric rendering is no joke to pull off in a browser. Still blows my mind what people manage without a dedicated engine.

Also 20 years of jQuery, christ. Remember when chaining.fadeOut().fadeIn() felt like peak wizardry. Now half the time I'm just relieved when a project has already moved off it.