Parcel is getting faster

Here’s another weekend, here’s a few good reads for you.

Release: Parcel 2 is 10x Faster

The parcel team released their third beta with a ground up rewrite of our JavaScript compiler in Rust, which improves overall build performance by up to 10x when minification is disabled.

Blog: Why Math.max() Without Arguments Returns -Infinity

An interesting quirk I read recently. If you don’t know this already, the blog clears it up for you. Maybe try guessing why this behaviour is so before reading.

Playground: DOM Event Visualizer

An interactive playground showing how DOM events are propagated, captured and bubbled up. It’s accompanied by a course on egghead.io, pretty fun to see anyway.