#444 — July 5, 2019 |
JavaScript Weekly |
Babel 7.5.0 Released — The popular JavaScript compiler now includes an official plugin for dynamic Nicolò Ribaudo |
▶ Introducing The Babel Podcast — Not only do we get a new release of Babel this week, we get a whole new JavaScript podcast from them too. The first episode features Babel’s original creator, Sebastian McKenzie, talking about the history of Babel and his current Rome project. Henry Zhu podcast |
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What Are Higher-Order Functions, and Why Should You Care? — The latest in James Sinclair’s fantastic series of functional-focused articles. This time, he deftly tackles what everyone means by “higher-order function” and why you might use them. James Sinclair |
▶ 'Svelte Is The Most Beautiful Web Framework I've Ever Seen' — Sure, it’s an opinion, but I enjoyed this (rather long) screencast where a developer finds his way with Svelte (an increasingly popular compile-time UI framework) by building a Tic-Tac-Toe game (or as we call it back in the UK, Noughts & Crosses!). Jesse Skinner |
p5.js: A Client-Side JS Platform for Creative, Arty Coding — It’s a mature project but we haven’t linked to it for years and it’s just had a big release. Check out some of the examples in the live p5.js playground for a feel for how cool this is – it makes putting together visualizations and visual experiments very easy. Processing Foundation |
Emscripten and the LLVM WebAssembly Backend — Emscripten is switching to the LLVM WebAssembly backend. Why is this a good thing? It’ll make Emscripten faster, more efficient, and be able to adopt new WebAssembly features more quickly. V8 |
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📘 Tutorials, Opinions, and Videos |
Using the Ankita Masand |
12 Tips for Improving JavaScript Performance — Half of your visitors expect a page to appear within 2 seconds so keeping your JavaScript fast is a must. Here are some relatively entry level tips to helping you on your way. Liz Parody |
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How Mathias Bynens |
Automatically Detect Memory Leaks with Puppeteer — An automated way to test for memory leaks in the browser. Christoph Guttandin |
A Look at the Public Class Fields Proposal Dr. Axel Rauschmayer |
How to Make HTTP Requests with Axios — Now that browsers widely support the Fetch API, Axios is less essential but it still provides a good HTTP client API and it works both in the browser and on Node.js. Faraz Kelhini |
Using Slots in Vue.js — A thorough tour of a popular though easily misunderstood Vue.js concept. Joseph Zimmerman |
Top 10 GitHub Best Practices: Lessons from Thousands of Repositories Datree.io sponsor |
Tips for Rolling Your Own Lazy Loading — A walkthrough of adding lazy loading to your site from scratch, from using Intersection Observer to determine when to load images to creating the right HTML. Phil Hawksworth |
▶ Immer, Immutability and the Wonderful World of Proxies Michel Weststrate |
How to Make an Interactive, Animated Vue.js Slider Henry Desroches |
🔧 Code and Tools |
Frappe Charts: Simple and Modern SVG Charts — Aero dependencies, and supports bar, line, pie, and GitHub-style ‘heatmap’ charts. Frappe Technologies |
React Native 0.60 Released — A bigger release for the popular React-based native app framework than the version number gives away. Ryan Turner |
FormPersistence.js: Preserve HTML Form Data Across Sessions Finn Thompson |
A GraphQL API to Join Across Your Database and Other Data-Sources — Get a GraphQL API to join across your database and 3rd party APIs, microservices and different database instances with Hasura Remote Joins. Read more here. #JoinAllTheThings. Hasura sponsor |
zip: A Robust ZIP Decoder — If recent talk of ZIP ‘bombs’ (ZIP files that can decompress to gigantic sizes) is scaring you, this may be of interest. Ronomon |
Puppeteer Recorder 0.7: Records Browser Interactions and Turns Them into Puppeteer Scripts — Add this to Chrome, perform activities on the Web (now including taking screenshots), and you’re given editable code to re-run what you just did. Tim Nolet |
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