--- title: "TypeScript 3.2, Ionic for Vue.js, and the React 16 roadmap" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 414 published_at: "2018-11-30" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/414" --- This week's JavaScript news #414 — November 30, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/414) JavaScript Weekly [![How a Popular Node Package Was Compromised\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/fvsrqamxp2f5vth4wahu.jpg)](https://schneid.io/blog/event-stream-vulnerability-explained/) [How a Popular Node Package Was Compromised](https://schneid.io/blog/event-stream-vulnerability-explained/) — We focused on this story heavily in [yesterday’s Node Weekly](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/265), but long story short, a malicious developer gained access to a popular npm module and added code that could steal cryptocurrency information. Zach Schneider [The React 16.x Roadmap](https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/11/27/react-16-roadmap.html) — If you’ve been following the React world over the past year, you’ll have run into a variety of new concepts like hooks and ‘Suspense’ and possibly wondered how it all fits into the big picture. This tidily explains all. Dan Abramov [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/8a446b41.jpg)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/node-js/) [New Course: Introduction to Node.js by Scott Moss ✨👀](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/node-js/) — Node.js can be used for build tools, desktop apps, mobile apps, databases, and more. Learn the foundations of Node.js so you can go forward and create fantastic JavaScript apps outside the browser. Frontend Masters sponsor [A Vue from Ionic: Ionic Gains Support for Vue.js](https://blog.ionicframework.com/a-vue-from-ionic/) — Ionic is a popular collection of UI components for building high-quality, cross-platform apps both on the Web and natively. It’s historically been aimed at Angular developers but is extending support for Vue.js developers. The Official Ionic Blog [Announcing TypeScript 3.2](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/11/29/announcing-typescript-3-2/) — TypeScript (the language that brings static type-checking to JavaScript) gets a variety of improvements here such as type-checking for BigInts, recognition of `Object.defineProperty` declarations, and stricter checking for `bind`, `call`, and `apply`. Daniel Rosenwasser (Microsoft) ▶[A Quest to Guarantee Responsiveness: Scheduling On and Off the Main Thread](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDdgfyRB5kg) — A 30 minute talk exploring two high-level strategies to improve responsiveness: main thread scheduling, and moving work into background threads (via Web Workers). Google Chrome Developers [An Extensive Guide to Progressive Web Applications](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/11/guide-pwa-progressive-web-applications/) — PWAs use JavaScript and modern Web technologies to provide app-like experiences in the browser. This post wraps up all the pieces that are involved pretty well. Ankita Masand 💻 Jobs [Sr. Angular Engineer at Services/Product Firm (Toronto /Remote)](https://jobs.lever.co/nrwl/8c921d98-a4b4-485a-a2a1-807d3e40bcb3) — Do you love Angular and helping teams build products? Join forces with thought-leaders and Fortune 500 teams. Code, teach, speak. NRWL.IO [Join Our Career Marketplace & Get Matched With A Job You Love](https://www.hired.com/javascriptweekly) — Through Hired, software engineers have transparency into salary offers, competing opportunities, and job details. Hired 📘 Tutorials and Opinions [Switching to Parcel from Webpack](https://logrocket.com/blog/switching-to-parcel-from-webpack/) — How to take a Webpack config that handles Sass, Babel, vendor-prefixing, plus more, and do it with [Parcel](https://parceljs.org/) instead. Sunil Sandhu [A Complete Guide To Routing in Angular](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/11/a-complete-guide-to-routing-in-angular/) — An introduction to Angular Router and using it to create client-side apps and Single Page Apps with routing and navigation. Ahmed Bouchefra [Using `Promise.prototype.finally()` in TypeScript](https://blog.mariusschulz.com/2018/11/27/using-promise-finally-in-typescript) — Lets you execute a callback function once the promise that it’s called on has been settled. Marius Schulz [The Subtle Art of Code Golf in JavaScript](https://www.lesscake.com/code-golf-javascript) — Code ‘golf’ is the art/hobby of reducing code to as small a footprint as possible - usually for fun or as a challenge. 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Chidume Nnamdi [A Set of Best Practices for JavaScript Projects](https://github.com/elsewhencode/project-guidelines) Elsewhen 🔧 Code and Tools [ncc: The Node.js Compiler Collection](https://zeit.co/blog/ncc) — Outputs a self-contained script that bundles all its dependencies by using webpack. ZEIT [Spin Up a Continuous Delivery Server in Less Than 5 Minutes](https://www.gocd.org/test-drive-gocd/?utm_campaign=test_drive&utm_medium=newsletter_ad&utm_source=cooperpress_java&utm_content=test_drive&utm_term=) — Trying out CD tools can take some time, so the GoCD team created a quick start option for new users. Try now. GoCD sponsor [Sortable: A Reorderable Drag-and-Drop List Library](https://github.com/rubaxa/Sortable) — Well established and happy on both desktop and mobile/touch. [Live demos here](http://rubaxa.github.io/Sortable/). 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