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title: "#367: Hyperapp 1.0, Stimulus, and the best of 2017"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 367
published_at: "2018-01-05"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/367"
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#367: Hyperapp 1.0, Stimulus, and the best of 2017

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JavaScript WeeklyIssue 367 — January 5, 2018

Hi folks, we're back and we hope you enjoyed the holiday season. This was going to be a "best of 2017" issue but enough new things have happened that we've packed [the most popular JS links of 2017](https://medium.com/dailyjs/the-most-popular-javascript-links-of-2017-e4616e8b48c7) into a single article and this issue is otherwise new stuff as usual. 🙂[Our Most Popular JavaScript Links of 2017](https://medium.com/dailyjs/the-most-popular-javascript-links-of-2017-e4616e8b48c7)A look back at what proved popular with JavaScript Weekly readers in 2017, including [this modern JavaScript cheatsheet](https://github.com/mbeaudru/modern-js-cheatsheet), [a set of JS best practices](https://github.com/wearehive/project-guidelines#readme), and [async/await explained with diagrams and examples.](http://nikgrozev.com/2017/10/01/async-await/) Chris Brandrick 
[Stimulus: A JS Framework for The HTML You Already Have](https://github.com/stimulusjs/stimulus)Rather than replace your HTML or rendering mechanisms, Stimulus _augments_ your existing HTML with functionality. Basecamp 
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[Browser Mitigations Landing for New Class of Timing Attack](https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-landing-new-class-timing-attack/)You’ve probably heard of [Meltdown and Spectre](https://spectreattack.com/), two timing attacks that can affect modern CPUs. It turns out they can be taken advantage of from JavaScript, so browsers are responding appropriately. Mozilla Security Blog 
[Hyperapp 1.0: A 1KB JS Library for Building Frontend Apps](https://hackernoon.com/introducing-hyperapp-1-0-dbf4229abfef)Hyperapp, an Elm-inspired functional minimal frontend framework, has been getting some serious buzz in the past several months. Jorge Bucaran 
[TeaVM: A Java Bytecode to JavaScript Translator](http://teavm.org/)An ahead-of-time Java bytecode to JavaScript (and WebAssembly) compiler, that can support other JVM languages like Kotlin and Scala. TeaVM 
[Uppy: A Powerful, Modular JavaScript File Uploader](https://uppy.io/)Integrates with any framework and can fetch files from numerous sources. [Example here.](https://uppy.io/examples/dashboard/) Transloadit 
[Top JavaScript Tools and Trends to Watch in 2018](https://hackernoon.com/the-top-javascript-trends-to-watch-in-2018-a8437dd94425)Nothing _too_ surprising, covers things like React vs Vue, GraphQL, Prettier, Jest, Parcel and Popmotion. Ryan Chartrand 


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In Brief

[Babel: Nearing The 7.0 Release](https://babeljs.io/blog/2017/12/27/nearing-the-7.0-release) news 
What’s new, coming, and going on with the popular JavaScript compiler.
Henry Zhu

[Aurelia's 2018 Roadmap](http://blog.aurelia.io/2018/01/03/aurelia-2018-roadmap/) news
Aurelia Core Team

[FuseBox 3.0: The Fast Bundler/module Loader, Now Even Faster](https://medium.com/fusebox/fusebox-3-0-faster-than-ever-5fae4254556c) news
Ivan Orlov

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[JavaScript 2018: Things You Need To Know, and a Few You Can Skip](https://thenewstack.io/js-2018-things-need-know-can-skip/) opinion
Michelle Gienow

[JS Things I Never Knew Existed](https://air.ghost.io/js-things-i-never-knew-existed/) tutorial
Nick Skyllo

[Debugging TypeScript from VS Code](https://medium.com/spektrakel-blog/debugging-typescript-from-vscode-3cb3a182bf63) tutorial
David Herges

[Robust Client-Side JavaScript: A Developer’s Guide](https://molily.de/robust-javascript/) tutorial
Mat​hia⁠s S​chäf⁠er

[Azure Functions CI/CD Pipeline for Node.js using VSTS](https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/livedevopsinjapan/2017/12/13/azure-functions-cicd-pipeline-for-node-js-using-vsts/) tutorial
MicrosoftSponsor

[The Rise of the State Machines](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/01/rise-state-machines/) tutorial 
A great introduction to state machines and implementing them in JavaScript.
Krasimir Tsonev

[JavaScript Object Explorer: A Web Tool to Find Object Methods](https://sdras.github.io/object-explorer/) tools 
Answer questions to narrow down to the right method for your task.
Sarah Drasner

[Asmble: Compile WebAssembly to JVM Bytecode](https://github.com/cretz/asmble) tools
Chad Retz

[Real-Time Error Monitoring, Alerting, and Analytics for JavaScript 🚀](https://rollbar.com/jsweekly/) tools
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[Sapper: A New Next.js-Style Webapp Framework from Svelte](https://svelte.technology/blog/sapper-towards-the-ideal-web-app-framework) code
Rich Harris

[headless-devtools: Perform Chrome DevTools Actions From Code](https://github.com/cowchimp/headless-devtools) code
Johnny Cowchimp

[Immer: Create The Next Immutable State by Mutating The Current One](https://github.com/mweststrate/immer) code
Michel Weststrate

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