Prepack optimizes JavaScript code by eliminating operations that can be done at compile-time. Imagine gcc with the optimization level turned up. Uses Babel under the hood.
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‘Headless’ Chrome is basically Chrome running without any UI or visible controls, so is ideal for being remotely controlled from JavaScript for testing or taking screenshots, etc.
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Inspired by William Strunk Jr’s “The Elements of Style”, Eric Elliot adapts its principles for improving the written word to guidelines for improving your code.
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Native module support is now in Safari 10.1, as well as behind config settings in Chrome 60, Firefox 54 & Edge 15. Jake explains what this means for front-end development.
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Want to run a Node-powered app on a system where Node isn’t installed? pkg makes it easier to distribute your apps by packaging Node and your app all in one. node-compiler is a similar project.
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Write promise-based code as if it were synchronous but without blocking the main thread. Not new but well worth revisiting, I found.
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Twilio Sponsor A Look at Uses for a 'flatMap' Function tutorial
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Getting Started with Three.js for Building a 3D Scene tutorial
Jscrambler Conditionally Adding Entries Inside Array and Object Literals tutorial
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Arrow Functions for Beginners tutorial
Brandon Morelli Patterns for Object Inheritance in ES6 tutorial
Code reuse possibilities with ES6 classes, including implementing multiple inheritance..
Tim Severien A 20 Minute Introduction to Flow, the Static Type Checker video
Benjamin Reid 8 Bite-Sized Videos on Async JavaScript with async/await video
Marius Schulz It's the Future opinion
"So I just need to split my simple CRUD app into 12 microservices, each with their own APIs..."
CircleCI Sponsor Why I’m Moving on to Web Components and Not Looking Back opinion
Hacker Noon Is Prepack Like Svelte? opinion
Svelte is essentially a build-time/compiled UI framework.
Rich Harris prepack-webpack-plugin: A Webpack Plugin for Prepack tools
Gajus Kuizinas A Curated List of 85 'Awesome' WebAssembly Links and Resources tools
Matteo Basso Spector.js: A Framework For Troubleshooting WebGL Projects tools
Deploy a MongoDB replica set on AWS in minutes with MongoDB Atlas tools
MONGODB Sponsor jQuery Prove: A jQuery Plugin for Client-Side Validation of Forms code
Dan Hollenbeck vue-infinite-loading: An Infinite Scroll Plugin for Vue.js code
Forall.js: Expressive Static Types and Invariant Checks code
Works in a run-time/macro-esque way.
Victor Hernandes Silva Maia Typefont: An Algorithm for Recognizing the Font Used on a Text code
Vasile Pește A 'Masonry' Image Layout Component for React Native code
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