October 6th, 2020
Feature watch: ECMAScript 2021 - Dr. Axel always keeps tabs on the new features coming to future versions of ECMAScript and heβs now started to do the same for the forthcoming ES2021.
Vue.js 3.0 “One Piece” Released - The 3.0 release represents over 2 years of development efforts, featuring 30+ RFCs, 2,600+ commits, 600+ pull requests from 99 contributors, plus tremendous amount of development and documentation work outside of the core repo.
Deno 1.4 Released - support for a WebSocket API (which you can use from Deno just like you would in a browser), automatic restarts on file changes, integrated test coverage support, and more.
What’s new in Svelte - New object methods, in-depth learning resources and tons of integration examples!
npm 7 rc - with support for named exports for CommonJS modules.
Introducing the New JSX Transform - say goodbye to: import React from ‘react’;
Why Do We Interface? - A micro-book with incomplete observations on human-computer interfaces by Ehsan Noursalehi
Understanding the Event Loop, Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await - concepts from ground up.
Inspecting Just-in-Time Compiled JavaScript - highly technical and detailed article by Mozilla about security implications of Just-in-Time (JIT) Compilers in browsers
How HTTPS Works - comic explanation to “how HTTPS actually works”
How Do I Learn to Write Better Code? - Some useful advice in this Hacker News discussion.
MDN Browser Compatibility Report - The MDN Browser Compatibility Report is a deeper dive into web and frontend related issues. #PDF
Introducing visx from Airbnb - A collection of expressive, low-level visualization primitives for React.
The React Cheatsheet for 2020 - Visual cheatsheet of all of the concepts and skills you need to master React in 2020.
URLCat - A URL builder library for JavaScript.
Wikipedia’s new Look - Wikipedia is getting a new look for the first time in 10 years.
Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code - VS code now supports the elements and networks tab within the coding environment itself.
Guidelines to improve your React folder structure - “Move files around until it feels right.”
Vue.js Global - Online Event held on September 17-18, 2020. Watch Videos
Jamstack Conf - Online event on October 6-7, 2020. Follow @jamstackconf
TSConf - Online event on October 9, 2020. Follow @TypeScriptConf
A tale of two MVC’s - Talk by Yehuda Katz at GoGaRuCo 2013, enlightens us with history of UI development and things around MVC. #video
Memory Management Masterclass - Talk by Addy Osmani, answers the question - how to effectively keep memory usage down because if too much is consumed, a page might be killed, forcing the user to reload it and cry in a corner. Automatic garbage collection isn’t a substitute for effective memory management, especially in large, long-running web apps. #video
devurls.com - News cheatsheet
Awesome Falsehood - A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.
Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 minutes - World Record Speedrun Explained
“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.” - Elon Musk
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