#393 — July 6, 2018
JavaScript Weekly
What is Redux: A Designer's Guide — A really neat high-level approach to explaining Redux and what it offers beyond state management.
Linton Ye
An Adventure in Sparse Arrays — A quick prod around the idea of ‘sparse’ arrays, how they work in JavaScript, and a few concepts to keep in mind.
Remy Sharp
Optimization Auditing: A Deep Dive into Chrome's Dev Console — Ahmed Bouchefra offers an in-depth exploration of the features of the Chrome DevTools for measuring performance and debugging your web apps.
SitePoint
Build and Deploy Serverless Functions Entirely in JavaScript — Pulumi.io provides a programming model for the cloud. Spend less time on YAML, and more time on JavaScript, because after all... Code is the best Config. Pulumi supports any service on any cloud - from serverless to Kubernetes to storage.
Pulumi sponsor
Reduce JavaScript Payloads with Tree Shaking — Knowing where to begin optimizing your app’s JavaScript can be daunting — tree shaking might be a good place to start.
Jeremy Wagner
Building Mobile Apps with Capacitor and Vue.js — Learn how to use Capacitor and cutting-edge web technologies such as Vue.js and Ionic 4 web components to build cross-platform mobile apps for Android and iOS.
Ahmed Bouchefra
React From Zero: A Simple Code-Based React Tutorial — An interesting approach based entirely upon simple, annotated code, with no articles to read. It’s nice to see React’s features demonstrated so cleanly. Also in Chinese and Portuguese.
Kay Plößer
💻 Jobs
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📘 Tutorials and Opinions
ES2017 Object and String Extensions — Covering Object.entries, Object.values, Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptors, String.padStart and String.padEnd.
Zsolt Nagy
Recreating Python's Slice Syntax in JS Using ES6 Proxies
Evan Sangaline
Build a Netflix Style Video Delivery Infrastructure — Play adaptive video at the same quality and speed as Netflix and Youtube. Encoding, Player and Analytics - JavaScript API client.
Bitmovin sponsor
Understanding Redux: The World’s Easiest Guide to Beginning Redux — Long, but starts from a very simple level.
Ohans Emmanuel
How Angular Resolves Dynamic Components — What happens under the hood when you use Angular’s resolveComponentFactory?
Chidume Nnamdi
WebRTC and the Mechanics of Peer-to-Peer Networking
Alexander Zlatkov
Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript — Well written, but quite a theoretical exercise.
Nathan Leung
OpenID Connect + Node = Simple, Secure Website — Learn all about data storage, middlewares, routing, & generating views as you build a secure blog with Express.js.
Okta sponsor
Keep Your Promises in TypeScript using async/await
Gilad Shoham
Ask HN: What You Wish You'd Known Before Getting Into JavaScript? — A lot of very different answers here.
Hacker News
Why GraphQL: Advantages, Disadvantages and Alternatives
Robin Wieruch
🔧 Code and Tools
Rete.js: A Framework for Visual Programming — Create a node-based editor in the browser and apply logic. Check out these demos on CodePen.
Vitaliy Stoliarov
Microstates.js: Composable State Primitives for JavaScript — Declaratively compose application state from atomic state machines.
Taras Mankovski and Charles Lowell
Formik: Working with Forms in React Made Easier — Handles validation, errors, submission, and getting values in and out. It’s now a year old, too.
Jared Palmer
Axax: Async Iterator Extensions for JavaScript
Jamie McCrindle
Visual Studio Code June 2018 Update Released — The most commonly used editor by JavaScript developers gains the ability to lay out multiple editors in the same window in a grid-like manner.
Microsoft
Layoutit: A CSS Grid Layout Interface Builder — A quick online way to put together a CSS grid layout and get the code needed.
Leniolabs
Robot Odyssey Online — An amazingly playable Apple II game from 1984 ported to the Web. You have to program a group of robots to help you escape a sewer. One of the earliest programming-related games, it remains a serious challenge and will suck your time away.
Micah Elizabeth Scott