Babel 7.8.0 Released — The popular JavaScript transpiler now supports ECMAScript 2020 features by default with no plugins needed for nullish coalescing (??), optional chaining (?.) and dynamic import(). Work is also underway on Babel 8 with two upcoming issues outlined in this post too.

Nicolò Ribaudo

Goodbye, Clean Code — Much as Donald Knuth warned us away from premature optimization, here React expert Dan Abramov tells us to beware of premature refactoring and de-duplication. A well put and interesting argument you might appreciate here.

Dan Abramov

Faster CI/CD for All Your Software Projects Using Buildkite — See how Shopify scaled from 300 to 1500 engineers while keeping their build times under 5 minutes.

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Native Web Components Come to Microsoft Edge — As featured in our Frontend Focus newsletter earlier this week, Microsoft’s Chromium-based version of Edge is now out and this also means “all major evergreen browsers now support Web Components natively.”

Polymer Project

What to Pay JavaScript Developers in 2020? — I think this is one of those “how long is a piece of string?” type questions but nonetheless Eric Elliott has brought together a variety of interesting stats.

Eric Elliott

The ECMAScript Archives — A collection of documents spanning from 1996 to 2015 relating to the activities of Ecma TC39 as the standards behind JavaScript were crafted over the years. Useful? Not really. Interesting? Depends how much of a geek you are, but the “issues list” in the first TC39 meeting’s minutes is kinda fun. “Why reserve Java keywords?”.. quite!

ECMA

Announcing TypeScript 3.8 Beta — Type-Only imports and export, top-level await and ECMAScript Private Fields all.. await you :-) TypeScript has a way of dropping a final release just after we publish, so watch this space!

Daniel Rosenwasser (Microsoft)

Senior Frontend-Focused Engineer in Munich — Do you love working with React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and working in a user-centred team? Then you're in for a treat 🍪 Let's protect some businesses together. 🙌

Finanzchef24

Find a 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

A Class-Based enum Pattern for JavaScript — Always a pleasure to see Dr. Axel writing. This time he looks at a way to implement enums (as available in other languages) in pure JavaScript before showing off enumify, a library he’s created for the task.

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

How to Build a D3 and Cube.js Powered Data Dashboard — Cube.js provides the analytics framework, D3 provides the visualizations.

Artyom Keydunov

A Good VSCode Linting and Formatting Setup for TypeScript Projects — There’s a GitHub repo with the actual configs and rules.

Andréas Hanss

Letting Tools Make Choices — We used to link to tutorials by Jack quite often back in the day so it’s great to see him blogging again. Now, Jack is thinking about the process of working out which tools to use, why, and letting tools carry the ‘burden’ of choices you’d otherwise have to make yourself.

Jack Franklin

Working with Raw WebGPU — An overview on how to write a WebGPU application, where WebGPU is an under development W3C spec on bringing modern 3D graphics and compute capabilities to the Web (and JavaScript).

Alain Galvan

Understanding npm Filesystem Takeover Vulnerabilities — Last month, a security vulnerability affecting all JS package managers (npm, yarn and pnpm) was disclosed which allows malicious actors to use various arbitrary file overwrite tactics. Here’s what that means and why it matters.

Liran Tal

Building a Virtualized List From Scratch — Understanding a powerful tool for improving UI render performance.

Mark Jordan

6 Useful Decorators to Use in Angular Projects

Chidume Nnamdi

How to Support IE 11 with Angular — Might be relevant if you’re targeting enterprise users.

Colum Ferry

Is TypeScript Worth It? — “I would like the jury to know that I am, for the most part, a TypeScript fan but I do have some nagging doubts that I would like to discuss in this post..”

Paul Cowan

Next.js 9.2 Released — The popular React-meets-server framework gains improved code splitting, CSS modularity, and new ‘catch-all’ dynamic routes.

Neutkens, Haddad, Kasper and Alvarez

uuid: Generate RFC-Compliant UUIDs in JavaScript — Seems very complete and covers UUID v1, v3, v4 and v5. Includes support for namespaces too.

UUID

Villus: A Tiny and Fast GraphQL Client for Vue 3 — An interesting writeup of how the creator approached the problem, too. Vue 3.0.0 alpha 2 is also out, BTW.

Abdelrahman Awad

FeathersJS/Hooks: Async Middleware for JavaScript and TypeScript — Koa-style middleware for any async functions for creating composable and reusable workflows and adding functionality without having to change a function or class’s original code.

Feathers

react-email-editor — A drag-n-drop component that makes it easy to add a solid email editor to your React apps. Designs are saved in JSON & can be exported as HTML.

Unlayer on GitHub sponsor

Styled-Components 5.0: Faster CSS Styling for React Components — Styled Components is a popular way to bring CSS and JavaScript together for styling components and 5.0.0 officially dropped this week :-)

Evan Jacobs

Spectacle: A React and JSX-Based Presentation Library — Got a presentation coming up? Build your decks with JSX! The best way to get a feel for what it can do is via this live slide deck.

Formidable