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Showoff Saturday (December 13, 2025)

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• 👤 Posted by: u/AutoModerator
• 📅 Posted on: 12/13/2025
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Your /r/javascript recap for the week of December 08 - December 14, 2025

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• 💬 Comments: 2
• 👤 Posted by: u/subredditsummarybot
• 📅 Posted on: 12/15/2025
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TIL the Web Speech API exists and it’s way more useful than I expected

• 👍 Upvotes: 51
• 💬 Comments: 14
• 👤 Posted by: u/bullmeza
• 📅 Posted on: 12/16/2025
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BlazeDiff goes native – TypeScript API for the fastest image diff (native Rust binary)

• 👍 Upvotes: 11
• 💬 Comments: 1
• 👤 Posted by: u/Technical_Gur_3858
• 📅 Posted on: 12/16/2025
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Built a GitHub repo visualizer where your code never leaves your machine - single HTML file, zero tracking, completely free

• 👍 Upvotes: 3
• 💬 Comments: 1
• 👤 Posted by: u/Sad-Branch-5375
• 📅 Posted on: 12/16/2025
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Ever wondered how JS with a single thread can still handle tons of async work, UI updates, promises, timers, network calls and still feel smooth?

• 👍 Upvotes: 6
• 💬 Comments: 5
• 👤 Posted by: u/mydevflow
• 📅 Posted on: 12/16/2025
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As my first Chrome extension in JS, I created an app that with a shortcut makes the page more readable and less stressful for the eyes. I used Mozilla's Readability library with custom CSS. I created it for myself, but if it could be useful to someone, I've published it.

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• 👤 Posted by: u/uscnep
• 📅 Posted on: 12/16/2025
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[AskJS] Bug in building streamYard clone

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• 👤 Posted by: u/Creepy-Classroom6945
• 📅 Posted on: 12/16/2025
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I made a browser extension because I kept ending research sessions with 100000000 tabs

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• 💬 Comments: 2
• 👤 Posted by: u/sirephrem
• 📅 Posted on: 12/16/2025
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[AskJS] Component Library CSS/ tokens not imported and being overwritten

• 👍 Upvotes: 2
• 💬 Comments: 0
• 👤 Posted by: u/Velvet-Thunder-RIP
• 📅 Posted on: 12/16/2025
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Mastering Rive Animation: A Complete Guide for React Developers

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• 👤 Posted by: u/Feisty-Scheme-8356
• 📅 Posted on: 12/16/2025
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ARM64 and X86_64 AI Audio Classification (521 Classes, YAMNet)

• 👍 Upvotes: 1
• 💬 Comments: 0
• 👤 Posted by: u/JazzCompose
• 📅 Posted on: 12/15/2025
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I built a real-time ASCII camera in the browser (60 FPS, Canvas, TypeScript)

• 👍 Upvotes: 106
• 💬 Comments: 30
• 👤 Posted by: u/Aroy666
• 📅 Posted on: 12/14/2025
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GraphQL: the enterprise honeymoon is over

• 👍 Upvotes: 116
• 💬 Comments: 54
• 👤 Posted by: u/Beautiful_Spot5404
• 📅 Posted on: 12/14/2025
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[AskJS] Ai & JS Generation

• 👍 Upvotes: 0
• 💬 Comments: 8
• 👤 Posted by: u/Made-of-Clay
• 📅 Posted on: 12/16/2025
• 🏷 Flair: AskJS

I built a real-time ASCII camera in the browser (60 FPS, Canvas, TypeScript)

• 👍 Upvotes: 22
• 💬 Comments: 5
• 👤 Posted by: u/Aroy666
• 📅 Posted on: 12/14/2025
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I wanted a type-safe authorization library with minimal boilerplate — so I made my own

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• 💬 Comments: 6
• 👤 Posted by: u/atrtde
• 📅 Posted on: 12/15/2025
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I built a zero-config Swagger/OpenAPI generator for Express that uses the TypeScript AST to infer schemas.

• 👍 Upvotes: 2
• 💬 Comments: 0
• 👤 Posted by: u/popthesmart
• 📅 Posted on: 12/15/2025
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is this tiny game I built with javascript any fun?

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• 💬 Comments: 2
• 👤 Posted by: u/Healthy_Flatworm_957
• 📅 Posted on: 12/15/2025
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Lessons learned from React's RCE

• 👍 Upvotes: 12
• 💬 Comments: 10
• 👤 Posted by: u/sosthene_gued
• 📅 Posted on: 12/14/2025
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Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies in JavaScript

• 👍 Upvotes: 3
• 💬 Comments: 7
• 👤 Posted by: u/joshuaamdamian
• 📅 Posted on: 12/14/2025
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Trendgetter v2.0: An API for getting trending content from various platforms

• 👍 Upvotes: 2
• 💬 Comments: 0
• 👤 Posted by: u/Zivsteve
• 📅 Posted on: 12/14/2025
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I built a TypeScript-first country intelligence npm package (ISO, phone validation, SVG flags)

• 👍 Upvotes: 7
• 💬 Comments: 2
• 👤 Posted by: u/TypicalIndividual519
• 📅 Posted on: 12/14/2025
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Iron-Clad-Ledger PostgreSQL project

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• 💬 Comments: 2
• 👤 Posted by: u/Much_Constant9531
• 📅 Posted on: 12/14/2025
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I've released a Biome plugin that enforces braces around arrow function bodies

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• 💬 Comments: 13
• 👤 Posted by: u/Aggravating-Mix-8663
• 📅 Posted on: 12/14/2025
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