#403 — September 14, 2018

Read on the Web

Celebrating 10 Years of V8 — The V8 JavaScript engine has had a huge impact on the growth of JavaScript, taking it from being a relatively slow scripting language to something surpassing many other languages on performance. This post celebrates V8’s tenth anniversary with some details about its history and development.

Mathias Bynens

12 Things to Consider When Evaluating Any New JavaScript Library — How do you know if a new technology, tool, or library is worth investing time into? Sacha Greif considers 12 factors to consider including features, stability, community and momentum.

Sacha Greif

⭐️ Master Writing Modern, Professional JavaScript — Take your JavaScript to the next level to find out what it is fully capable of with this comprehensive learning path.

Frontend Masters sponsor

Next Generation Package Management with Tink — tink (formerly ‘crux’) is a new, experimental JavaScript package manager from the folks at npm, Inc, that aims to provoke new thoughts on how package management should be handled.

The npm Blog

You (Probably) Don't Need Moment.js — Moment.js is a popular date and time manipulation library but with some downsides around tree-shaking and mutability. But do you even need it? This repo shows off the alternatives, including many native functions that do similar things.

Various Contributors

Announcing TypeScript 3.1 RC — 3.1 two main additions are mappable tuple and array types plus properties on function declarations.

Microsoft

💻 Jobs

Senior Frontend Developer (Berlin, Germany) — The Digital Concert Hall team is looking for a passionate developer with strong focus on Javascript

Berliner Philharmoniker

Senior Software Engineer in Munich, Germany (React Native) — Build native apps for the world’s largest social network for expatriates in JavaScript. International team.

InterNations

Try Vettery — Create a profile to connect with inspiring companies seeking JavaScript devs.

Vettery

📘 Articles & Tutorials

The 100% Correct Way to Split Your Chunks with Webpack — Know what file-splitting strategy will work best for your site and your users.

David Gilbertson

How to Write 'X' in Both Python 3 and JavaScript — This cheat sheet could be useful to you in both directions, whether coming from Python or wanting to learn some.

Saya

A Conversation With Jez Humble on Accelerate — Jez covers DevOps and its culture, cynicism on teams, and how to drive change slowly through organizations.

CircleCI sponsor

How to Create a Vue.js Plugin in 1 Hour — A complete, straightforward walkthrough, with code.

Francis Cote

How to Deploy a Full-Stack Apollo App with Netlify — How to run an API using Netlify Functions (which itself uses AWS Lambda). And if you’re into serverless, check out our newsletter.

Sashko Stubailo

Sept 18th: Learn The Fastest Way to Build Mobile Apps With Cloud Data — Watch us build Angular web, native iOS and Android apps connected to Cloud Data with 70% shared code.

Progress sponsor

A Speedy Introduction to Web Workers in JavaScript — Web Workers are scripts that run in the background in separate threads and if you’ve not worked with them yet, this is a good primer.

Dan Arias

▶  Discussing Promises and async/await with Valeri Karpov — Valeri is the author of the book Mastering Async/Await.

JavaScript Jabber podcast

Updating a CSS Variable with JavaScript

Chris Coyier

The JavaScript Equality Table Game — Test your JavaScript == equality knowledge with this quirky Minesweeper-esque game.

slikts

🔧 Code and Tools

Introducing GitHub Pull Requests for Visual Studio Code — Review and manage GitHub PRs directly from within VS Code.

Kenneth Auchenberg (Microsoft)

low.js: A Node.js Port for Embedded Devices — V8 is replaced with Duktape, an embeddable JS engine with an even smaller footprint suited for small devices. GitHub repo.

neonious GmbH

Build a Netflix Style Video Delivery Infrastructure

Bitmovin sponsor

wasm-worker: Move a WebAssembly Module Into Its Own Thread

Matteo Basso

NLP.js: Natural Language Utilities for Node.js — Guess the language of a text, stemming/tokenization, sentiment analysis, etc.

AXA

WatermelonDB: A New Database for React and React Native Apps — Offers a new way to handle user data in React apps in a lazy-loading fashion.

Nozbe

d3-dag: Layout Algorithms for Visualizing Directed Acylic Graphs (DAG)

Erik Brinkman

Highway: AJAX Page Navigation with Transitions

Dogstudio