And more JavaScript links, tutorials, and projects of the week.
| Babel 7.8.0 Released — The popular JavaScript transpiler now supports ECMAScript 2020 features by default with no plugins needed for nullish coalescing (??), optional chaining (?.) and dynamic import(). Work is also underway on Babel 8 with two upcoming issues outlined in this post too. Nicolò Ribaudo |
| Goodbye, Clean Code — Much as Donald Knuth warned us away from premature optimization, here React expert Dan Abramov tells us to beware of premature refactoring and de-duplication. A well put and interesting argument you might appreciate here. Dan Abramov |
| What to Pay JavaScript Developers in 2020? — I think this is one of those “how long is a piece of string?” type questions but nonetheless Eric Elliott has brought together a variety of interesting stats. Eric Elliott |
| The ECMAScript Archives — A collection of documents spanning from 1996 to 2015 relating to the activities of Ecma TC39 as the standards behind JavaScript were crafted over the years. Useful? Not really. Interesting? Depends how much of a geek you are, but the “issues list” in the first TC39 meeting’s minutes is kinda fun. “Why reserve Java keywords?”.. quite! ECMA |
| Announcing TypeScript 3.8 Beta — Type-Only imports and export, top-level await and ECMAScript Private Fields all.. await you :-) TypeScript has a way of dropping a final release just after we publish, so watch this space! Daniel Rosenwasser (Microsoft) |
| Senior Frontend-Focused Engineer in Munich — Do you love working with React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and working in a user-centred team? Then you're in for a treat 🍪 Let's protect some businesses together. 🙌 Finanzchef24 |
| Find a Job Through Vettery — Vettery is completely free for job seekers. Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers. Vettery |
| A Class-Based enum Pattern for JavaScript — Always a pleasure to see Dr. Axel writing. This time he looks at a way to implement enums (as available in other languages) in pure JavaScript before showing off enumify, a library he’s created for the task. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer |
| The Fastest Way to Get Great Bug Reports from Non-Technical Folk
Get less “the link is broken”, get great bug reports (with screenshot and browser data) from non-tech clients with BugHerd. BugHerd |
| Letting Tools Make Choices — We used to link to tutorials by Jack quite often back in the day so it’s great to see him blogging again. Now, Jack is thinking about the process of working out which tools to use, why, and letting tools carry the ‘burden’ of choices you’d otherwise have to make yourself. Jack Franklin |
| Working with Raw WebGPU — An overview on how to write a WebGPU application, where WebGPU is an under development W3C spec on bringing modern 3D graphics and compute capabilities to the Web (and JavaScript). Alain Galvan |
| Understanding npm Filesystem Takeover Vulnerabilities — Last month, a security vulnerability affecting all JS package managers (npm, yarn and pnpm) was disclosed which allows malicious actors to use various arbitrary file overwrite tactics. Here’s what that means and why it matters. Liran Tal |
| Is TypeScript Worth It? — “I would like the jury to know that I am, for the most part, a TypeScript fan but I do have some nagging doubts that I would like to discuss in this post..” Paul Cowan |
| Next.js 9.2 Released — The popular React-meets-server framework gains improved code splitting, CSS modularity, and new ‘catch-all’ dynamic routes. Neutkens, Haddad, Kasper and Alvarez |
| react-email-editor — A drag-n-drop component that makes it easy to add a solid email editor to your React apps. Designs are saved in JSON & can be exported as HTML. Unlayer on GitHub |
❓ The Coding Sans Software Development Survey |
| Each year we help out (for free – this isn't a sponsored thing) Coding Sans by linking to their State of Software Development survey. The latest one is out now, and if you're able to fill it out, that would be awesome :-) They release the results each time, so if you're intrigued what sort of things it covers and uncovers, this PDF of the 2019 results may be of interest. You can take the 2020 survey here — thanks! |
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