What could we improve if instead of sending text source code over the wire we sent a binary representation instead?
David Teller
.. or “How I Learned to stop writing Callback Functions and love JavaScript ES8.”
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How Object#toString performs in the V8 engine, why it’s important, how it changed with ES2015 symbols, and how to speed it up.
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An explainer of V8’s bytecode format - think of bytecode as made up of “small building blocks that make up any JS functionality when composed together”.
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Featuring Ray Camden and TJ Vantoll looking at changes in JavaScript development in recent years. It’s next Wednesday (23rd).
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Top-Level 'await' Now Supported in Chrome DevTools' Console news Umar Hansa on Twitter
Announcing TypeScript 2.5 RC news Microsoft
A Feature Watch on ECMAScript 2018 (Updated) news Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
The State of CSS in Angular news Stephen Fluin
Are content changes wasting your time? Add CMS anywhere on your site Empower non-technical users to change content themselves, avoiding back-and-forth edits. Component IO Sponsor
Beyond 'typeof' and 'instanceof': Simplifying Dynamic Type Checks tutorial Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
Using ES2017 Async Functions tutorial Ever struggled with reasoning about asynchronous JavaScript? Eric Windmill
Building a realtime React VR app tutorial Discover how you can create a realtime React VR app, using websockets to support multi-user interactions in a WebVR experience. Pusher Sponsor
Repatch: The Simplified, Less Verbose Redux tutorial A thorough introduction. GitHub repo. Péter Hauszknecht
Building a Multiplayer Tic-Tac-Toe Game with Meteor tutorial Paul Orac
A Look at the 'Optional Catch Binding' ES Proposal tutorial Would let us use ‘catch’ without defining a parameter. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
Folding Promises in JavaScript tutorial Covers endomorphism, isomorphism, homomorphism and catamorphism. Vladimír Gorej
5 Ways to Make HTTP Requests in Node tutorial node Overviews of ‘http’, Request, Axios, SuperAgent, and Got. Twilio
Wrap Web Components with React - Use your fav non-React libraries in a React Way tutorial SitePen Sponsor
Webpack Tips for Efficient Bundling video Google Chrome Developers
Angular vs. React: Which Is Better for Web Development? opinion A pretty in-depth code-driven comparison. Brandon Morelli
Up: A Rapid Way to Deploy Serverless Apps and APIs tools TJ Holowaychuk
Puppeteer: A Headless Chrome Node API by the DevTools Team code node Google
Bubb Infotop: Tooltips with No Dependencies code
Songbird: Spatial Audio Encoding on the Web code A real-time spatial audio encoding JavaScript library for WebAudio applications. Repo here. Google
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