It’s a roundup post, but what a roundup post! John Hannah walks through 52 JavaScript frameworks of various types and touches on their pros, cons, and distinctive features.
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webpack is a great tool for bundling frontend assets but it’s worth knowing what to do when it starts to get bogged down.
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A reintroduction to asynchronous JavaScript, explaining why you should now be using async/await functions.
Demir Selmanovic
Learn the patterns to manage state across large React applications. Take a tour through the popular approaches and libraries to state management like Flux, Redux, MobX, Redux Thunks and Redux Sagas in this new course by Steve Kinney.
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One of the creators of react-beautiful-dnd goes in-depth on how they radically improved the performance of the latest version.
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In short, yes, and while it’s not something that’s useful in itself, it’s fun to think outside the box and look under the hood (we think..).
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Firefox 58 includes a new 2-tiered compiler which boasts a huge speedup for WebAssembly users. How? Why? All is explained here.
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A look at what JS projects were hot or not in 2017 based on their GitHub star counts.
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Angular 5.2 Released news And a look at what’s new. Stephen Fluin
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Using a Virtual DOM with Backbone Views tutorial Backbone is mature and well used but this approach can make your Backbone views become more modern and reactive. JC Brand
Running Untrusted JS as a SaaS Is Hard, But.. tutorial Running untrusted code is a security nightmare, but it can be done. Tim Nolet
Writing JS Apps for a Fitbit Ionic Smartwatch tutorial Not a bad place to start with ‘wearable’ development. Charles Grugan
Implementing Tic-Tac-Toe with Vue.js tutorial Elliott Draper
A Tiny Guide to Creating Babel Plugins tutorial Philip Dexter
Transitioning Your Marionette App to React tutorial Marionette is a framework heavily used in the Backbone world. Michael Sholty
null vs. undefined in JavaScript tutorial Brandon Morelli
Setting up Prettier in an Angular CLI Project tutorial Victor Mejia
Understanding the Difference Between JSON Support in Postgres & MongoDB Explore database options for your next JavaScript app. mongodb Sponsor
Jarvis: An Intelligent Browser-Based Webpack Dashboard tools Zouhir Chahoud
webpack Plugin to Remove Unused Moment.js Locales tools Ivan Akulov
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A Guide to SurveyJS, a JavaScript Survey Library code Create multi-step Web-based survey flows.
Bulb: A Reactive Programming Library for JavaScript code Introduces a ‘signal’ data type which can represent any time-varying source of values. Josh Bassett
JSON-dry: Serialize Objects with Circular Refs, Dates, Regexes, Class Instances, and More code Jelle De Loecker
Wobble: Spring Physics Library Modelling a Damped Harmonic Oscillator code A demo may help here. Adam Miskiewicz
webshot-factory: Web Screenshots at Scale Based on Headless Chrome code Ashish Shubham
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