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You know when hardware reviewers benchmark against Photoshop and games? This is a look at a new, similarly practical performance test for JavaScript engines.
Benedikt Meurer
A look at some of the most important changes to Angular, as well as pointers on upgrading.
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Error handling is one of those things no one wants to deal with, well in Angular you can create a global handler and never have to worry again. Here's how.
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Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
Curated from numerous popular articles this in-development list of best practices covers topics from error handling to memory use.
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If adopted, Redux has the potential to totally change your approach to writing code and organizing applications.
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A step-by-step how-to for smooth transitions from one shape to another.
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So What's New in Node.js 9? news Gergely Nemeth
A Feature Watch on ECMAScript 2018 (Updated) news Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
The Road to Learn React: Learn by Building Hacker News App course 12,000+ students read the Road to Learn React. This interactive course is a complete roadmap to master React. Educative Sponsor
Using a Router To Navigate Between Pages in a Vue.js App tutorial Nic Raboy
Playing with 2D Physics with Matter.js tutorial Some pointers on getting started with Matter.js. Will Boyd
Async/Await Explained By Way of a Clear Example tutorial Brandon Morelli
What’s New in Angular 5: Animations tutorial Netanel Basal
Working with async/await and Loops tutorial Anton Lavrenov
Basic Debugging from the Chrome DevTools Console tutorial Michał Witkowski
Ask HN: Which TypeScript Codebase Should I Study to Get Better? opinion Hacker News
Ask HN: Is Meteor.js Still A Thing? opinion A lengthy discussion on whether using Meteor.js in production is still worthwhile. Hacker News
The Most Clever Line of JavaScript? story Well, it’s an intriguing line at least. Seva Zaikov
Advanced Static Types in TypeScript: A Course video Marius Schulz
A Much Faster Way to Debug Code Than with Breakpoints or Console.log Wallaby catches errors in your tests and displays the results of expressions right in your editor as you type. Wallaby.js Sponsor
Webpack Monitor: A Tool for Monitoring Webpack Optimization Metrics tools Jon Roach, Gordon Yu, Balal Zuhair
“CircleCI 2.0 is fast. We reduced builds from minutes to 12 seconds.” tools CircleCI Sponsor
voxelengine3: A Three.js-based WebGL Voxel Engine code Magnus Lallassu
Noel: A Replayable Event Emitter code Joel Hernandez
Emergence.js: Detect Element Visibility in The Browser code Christian Miller
DraftJS Plugins 2.0: Lots of New Rich Text Editor Extensions code Draft.js is a framework for building rich text editors in React. Nik Graf
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