Plus more JavaScript links, tutorials, and projects.
| Jest 26 Released: The Popular Testing Framework — Jest is a popular testing framework that works with pretty much everything. This release focuses on getting the dependency count and install size down (this causes some breaking changes, unsurprisingly), adds a new fake timer implementation, drops Node 8 support, and initial, experimental ESM support to play with. Christoph Nakazawa |
| 1LOC: A Collection of One-Line JS Snippets — A neat little collection of vanilla JavaScript one-liners divided into various categories (arrays, date/time, checking objects, DOM work, etc.) You can submit your own for inclusion too. Nguyen Huu Phuoc |
| Comparing Ember Octane and React — This is about as detailed a comparison as you could hope for and a demonstration of just how much Ember contributes to the JavaScript ecosystem. Octane really kicks things up a notch for Ember, too. Chris Garrett |
| Our newest newsletter.. Carrying on from the Deno item above, yes, we've started Deno Weekly, a new newsletter dedicated to the newest runtime in the JavaScript/TypeScript world. Issue 2 goes out just after 1.0 is released next week. Even if you don't stick with Deno long term, feel free to subscribe then unsubscribe at any time — we won't take offence 😄 Subscribe to Deno Weekly here or enjoy issue 1 here. |
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| Find a Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery |
| Debug Anything: The Basics — A six part series (all ready to read now) on debugging your JavaScript and TypeScript code with the debugger built into Visual Studio Code. Charles Szilagyi |
| A Brief Look at ES2020's Promise.any — When you need to know when at least 1 promise got resolved among an iterable of Promise objects, Promise.any() is the solution. Marios Fakiolas |
| Building a Crossword Puzzle Generator — As a NY Times crossword addict, I love a good crossword, but if you’d rather figure out how to make your computer solve them, be my guest 😄 This post guides you on how to approach the problem. Mitchum |
| A ES2015+ Cheatsheet — A one-page guide to ES2015+ features based around brief example snippets. Devhints.io |
🎉 BTW, if you like videos, we need to shout out Florin Pop's YouTube channel as he's just passed 20k subscribers by posting neat JavaScript videos and live streams nearly every day for the past six months! 😁 Lots of great stuff on there for JavaScript developers of all skill levels. |
| Majestic 1.7: A Zero Config GUI for Jest — A tool to help make your JavaScript testing life a little easier. Run npx majestic in the folder of any project that uses Jest to give it a quick try. Raathi Kugarajan |
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