---
title: "JavaScript Weekly Issue 704: September 12, 2024"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/javascript-weekly-issue-704-september-12-2024-veazqvqku
source_url: https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/704
type: article
source: "JavaScript Weekly"
published: 2024-09-12T16:06:29.583Z
updated: 2024-12-11T15:35:52.413Z
tags: ["javascript", "github", "typescript", "npm"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 21
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# JavaScript Weekly Issue 704: September 12, 2024

**[JavaScript Weekly](https://daily.dev/sources/jswkly)** · 3 min read · 21 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Explores the relevance of ES5 in modern JavaScript development and highlights a Google Sheets spreadsheet of top npm packages by size, downloads, and traffic. It also introduces Blacksmith, a service to speed up GitHub Actions, announces TypeScript 5.6 with new features, and compares various web frameworks for building the same app. Additionally, there's a discussion on the increasing interest in PHP due to Laravel and practical uses of FormData with React and TypeScript.

## Full article

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