Plus what's going on Svelte, Socket.io 3.0, and making JSON greppable.
| What's the Deal with Svelte and SvelteKit? — Two weeks ago we linked to a video where Svelte’s creator pondered the future of Web development. Now here’s a more definitive writeup of what you need to know about how Svelte is progressing. Rich Harris (Svelte) |
BTW, if Svelte is your thing, Svelte Radio is a frequent podcast covering developments in the space. There's also an official Svelte November 2020 update. |
| WTFJS: A List of Funny and Tricky JavaScript Examples — This has been around for a few years but continues to get tweaks and adjustments and if you’ve not seen it, it’s worth a look to get a deeper look into some of the more “uh, what?” corners of JavaScript. Denys Dovhan |
| New, Core 'Redux Fundamentals' Tutorial — A complete rewrite of the official Redux introductory tutorial that covers both how Redux works and how to use it. Say goodbye to outdated terminology and hello to modern practices and code sandbox demos. Easy to skim even if Redux isn’t your cup of tea. Redux Core Team |
| Node v15.1.0 (Current) Released — More bits and pieces to play around with compared to the typical minor Node release including diagnostics channels (a new experimental module for creating named channels to pass diaganostics messages around with), a new spawn event for child processes, and more. Michaël Zasso |
| ⚡️ Quick bytes: Hackaday has profiled a neat TTL logic simulator built in JavaScript. The latest VS Code release has a new empty brace formatting option for JavaScript code (to set whether or not { } should contain a space). SpiderBasic is a modern (and commercial) BASIC implementation that compiles to JavaScript in an attempt to take BASIC to the Web. There's a lot of neat stuff in the Code & Tools section this week, so be sure to head down there! :-) |
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📚 Tutorials, Opinions and Stories |
| ES Modules in Depth — An exploration of the different ways you can export and import values using ES Modules (now broadly supported in most places, even if you’re not using extra tools). R. Alex Anderson |
| gron: Make JSON Greppable — A tool written in Go that transforms JSON into more easily greppable assignments, so you can use grep and see the context/path of the result. Useful. Tom Hudson |
| Find a Job Through Vettery — Create a profile on Vettery to connect with hiring managers at startups and Fortune 500 companies. It's free for job-seekers. Vettery |
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