The JavaScript Journal

JavaScript applications are awesome on Fly! This is the home for JavaScript-oriented content including Node.js, Deno, Bun, React.js and more.

By Sam Ruby

Ciabatta with Garlic & Basil

Previously, Vanilla with Candy Sprinkles covered how you could select your own “vanilla” JS demo and sprinkle in as many options as you like. But that blog post focused on Node.js, and now that Bun 1.0 has been released it is time for an update. We

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By Sam Ruby

Fly.io ❤️ Bun

Bun 1.0 comes out September 7th. Fly.io is making preparations. Previously, we stated that Fly.io ❤️ JS, and we understandably started with Node.js. While that work is ongoing, it makes sense to start expanding to other runtimes. Bun is the obvio

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By Sam Ruby

Vanilla with Candy Sprinkles

Recapping where we are to date: There are plenty of JavaScript frameworks to choose from, and fly.io loves them all. Pretty much all of the big name frameworks are delightfully weird. Picking up where we left off, this blog post will describe lite

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By Sam Ruby

The JavaScript Ecosystem is Delightfully Weird

Note, I’m not saying that JavaScript is weird, though it definitely is weird. But that’s not the point of this blog post. Bear with me, instead of starting with how JavaScript ecosystem is weird, I’m going to start with why the JavaScript ecosystem

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By Sam Ruby

Fly.io ❤️ JS

Fly.io is a great place to run fullstack applications. For most programming languages, there is a defacto default fullstack framework. For Ruby, there is Rails. For Elixir, there is Phoenix. For PHP there is Laravel. For Python, there is Django.

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