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Issue 275 — March 18, 2016
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WebAssembly is a new low level bytecode and runtime, acting as a compilation target for Web use. Experimental support is now available in V8 and Chromium behind a flag.
Seth Thompson
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Brad Green’s keynote from Fluent on how new techniques are making it easy to use advanced browser features like Web Workers, HTTP/2, and service workers. Note: X to skip the login wall.
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Before promises, jQuery had (and still has) its own similar mechanism: deferred objects. Here’s a look at how they work and how they’re evolving.
Aurelio De Rosa
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This is not a casual read (get coffee) - it digs deep, but you’ll learn some cool stuff about functional programming concepts.
Chet Corcos
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Flexible, works well with HTML/XML import and export, supports custom HTML rendering by writing components. Mature and used in several products.
Substance Software GmbH
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A talk from Steve McGuire of Netflix on how they’ve built a high performance and completely declarative UI for living room use using React.
YouTube
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A controversial insight? “By building the library from the ground up with types, you make clear what are the constraints and preconditions of your API.”
André Staltz
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A tweet inspired a closer look at the single piece of JavaScript on HN.
Gordon Zhu
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In brief - jsconf.be: A JavaScript Conference in Belgium 2016 (May 3) news
JSConf Belgium - ReactJS Webinar: Migrate from Web 2.0 jQuery Soup to Reusable React Components news
Take a look at the critical concepts needed to move your rich jQuery components to React reusable components. Achieve the same functionality, plus achieve additional benefits like managing application state.
RANGLE.IO Sponsored - A Few New Developer-Facing Features in V8 5.0 news
Will be coming in Chrome 50 Stable soon.
Google - Marko v3: A Templating Engine and UI Component Building Library newstools
Marko - Animating with React, Redux, and d3 tutorial
Swizec Teller - 6 Ways to Bind JavaScript's this Keyword in React, ES6 and ES7 tutorial
Dan Prince - How to Install Multiple Versions of Node.js using nvm tutorialnode
SitePoint - Three Ways to Reverse a String in JavaScript tutorial
Sonya Moisset - Thoughts On Thunks tutorial
“an eager async thunk is basically an early predecessor to promises”
Kyle Simpson - On Being Overwhelmed and Approaching The Ever-Changing JS Ecosystem video
YouTube - A Look at RxJS Version 5 video
Ben Lesh, a senior UI engineer at Netflix, explains all.
YouTube - The Path to JavaScript Next (at eBay) opinion
A brief, high level look at how eBay adopted ES6 into their huge ecosystem of development projects.
eBay Tech Blog - The Deep Roots of JavaScript Fatigue opinion
Calvin French-Owen - Why I Write Plain JavaScript Modules opinion
We linked this ages ago but it's doing the rounds again - it's good.
Nicolas Bevacqua - AVA: A 'Futuristic' Concurrent Test Runner toolscode
Runs tests concurrently to take advantage of Node’s async nature. Supports ES6, promises, generators, and more.
Sindre Sorhus - JavaScript Speech Recognition (without using browser APIs) code
Actually analyzes sound and lets you train it with new sounds or words.
Dominic Winkelman - tonal: A Functional Music Theory Library code
Manipulate pitches, chords, scales, keys, etc.
danigb - spotifyCurrentlyPlaying.js: Share What You're Playing, On Your Site code
Kyle Brumm - Force.js: The Easy Way to Scroll and Animate Your Page code
Multiple easing functions, tries to use CSS transitions by default but falls back.
Rene Tanczos - D3 Calendar Heatmap: Represent Time Series Data (a la GitHub Contrib Chart) code
Darragh Kirwan - You Know How to Code, but How Are Your Design Skills? course
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