An Interactive Introduction to D3 — D3, the JavaScript library for producing interactive data visualizations, has just turned 9 years old so you’re probably familiar with it by now.. but this introduction is particularly neat as it’s an example of a live, interactive ‘notebook’ style tutorial.

MIT Visualization Group

Understanding the ECMAScript Spec, Part 2 — Part 1 looked at how to understand a single (and simple) method by reading the official ECMAScript specs. Part 2 goes into a trickier domain, understanding how ES interpreters do prototype lookups.

Marja Hölttä

🐋 Learn Docker in the New, 'Complete Intro to Containers' — Learn to create containers from scratch and with Dockerfiles, run containers from Docker Hub, and learn best practices are for front-end and Node.js code in containers.

Frontend Masters sponsor

p5.js 1.0: The 'Creative Coding' Libary — A major milestone for a long-standing JavaScript library that builds upon Processing, a popular creative coding environment (which also inspired the Arduino IDE). p5 is a bit hard to explain succinctly, so definitely check it out.

lauren mccarthy

Rollup 2.0 Released: The ES Module Bundler — Write your code using ES modules and get tree-shaking/dead code elimination and bundling to the format you require. v2 gets rid of lots of deprecated stuff, goes zero-dependency, and includes chokidar to improve its ‘watch’ mode’.

Lukas Taegert-Atkinson

A Growing Collection of 86 Node.js Best Practices — An in-depth guide for Node devs, available in multiple languages. Divided into 7 sections and updated regularly.

Yoni Goldberg

Senior JavaScript Developer (Warsaw, Relocation Package) — Open source project used by millions of users around the world. Strong focus on code quality. Join us.

CKEditor

JavaScript Developer at X-Team (Remote) — Work with the world's leading brands, from anywhere. Travel the world while being part of the most energizing community of developers.

X-Team

Find a Dev Job Through Vettery — Vettery is completely free for job seekers. Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers.

Vettery

4 Best Practices To Writing Quality ES Modules — Principally these ideas are around organizing modules you create: prefer named exports, do no work during import, favor high cohesion and avoid long relative paths.

Dmitri Pavlutin

The Perils of Rehydration: An Eye-Opening Realization about Gatsby and React — We love how the author explains this piece himself: “Last week, I learned a whole lot about how React’s rehydration works. Wrote up those findings in a blog post!”

Josh W Comeau

Top GitHub Best Practices for Developers — Expanded Guide — Implementing these best practices could save you time, improve code maintainability, and prevent security risks.

Datree sponsor

7 Types of Native Errors in JavaScript You Should Know — A beginner’s level introduction to understanding the meaning behind errors like RangeError, ReferenceError and URIError.

Chidume Nnamdi

3 Ways to Render Large Lists in Angular — An overview of the available techniques to render large lists of items with Angular.

Giancarlo Buomprisco

CES, Viacom & Intel Use .Tech Domains. What About You? Search Now

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In Favor of Small Modules and Plumbing — “This post examines how I used to be of the mindset that publishing a plethora of “focused” modules is a waste of time but now think is a fantastic idea.”

Paul Anthony Webb

An Introduction to Vue.js Computed Properties and Watchers

John Au-Yeung

Stryker: Test Your Tests with Mutation Testing — Stryker fiddles with your tests (in a large and complicated number of ways) and expects this to break them. If it doesn’t, your tests are too brittle and therefore failed the test. This is not something to run frequently (as it can be very slow) but is an interesting way to stress test your tests, if you will.

Jansen, de Lang, et al.

Immer 6.0: The Popular Immutable State Library — Immer only continues to get better over time but take note of the breaking changes.

immer

A Much Faster Way to Debug Code Than with Breakpoints or console.log — Move forward and backwards through your code to understand the conditions that led to a specific bug, view runtime values, edit-and-continue, and more.

Wallaby.JS sponsor

Vue Formulate: The Easy Way to Build Forms with Vue.js — A well presented library that brings a lot of simple form-building power to Vue apps.

Braid LLC

Goxygen: Quickly Generate a Go and MongoDB-Backend for a JS Project — We first linked this opinionated full stack app generator only a few weeks ago, but since then it’s had a 0.2 version that extends its support from React to Angular and Vue.js too.

Sasha Shpota

ls-lint: A Fast File and Directory Name Linter — Also written in Go but clearly aimed at JS/front-end dev use cases. ls-lint provides a way to enforce rules for file naming and directory structures.

Lucas Löffel

isomorphic-git 1.0: It's git but in Pure JavaScript — A pure JavaScript implementation of git for both Node and the browser.

isomorphic git team

Bootstrap Treeview: A Simple Plugin to Build a 'Treeview' with Bootstrap 4 — Here’s a live demo.

Sami Chniter