JSter #104: Libraries, Articles, and more

One JavaScript library too far.

My newest book about maintenance keeps progressing steadily and is close to its first release. You can already peruse the initial contents online!

Libraries

• bvaughn/js-worker-search - JavaScript client-side search API with web-worker support.
• alvarcarto/url-to-pdf-api - Self-hosted service for rendering HTML to PDF.
• DIO - Develop light, declarative UIs using JavaScript.
• Micromodal.js - Micromodal.js is a lightweight, configurable and a11y-enabled modal library written in pure JavaScript.
• unfetch - Tiny 500b fetch "barely-polyfill".

Articles

• Observables and Finnish Notation - Not only Hungarians have a notation. Now Finns have one too.
• JavaScript's Promise Leaks Memory
• Business logic as a data structure
• Mikeal has seen the future, it’s full of HTML

Techniques

• Unit Testing Vue.js Components with the Official Vue Testing Tools and Jest
• Asynchronous stack traces: why await beats .then()

Games

• Snakesilk game engine

Tools

• Project Glimpse - Full-stack Node.js web diagnostics.
• Workbox - JavaScript Libraries for Progressive Web Apps.
• webpack v3.7.0
• How codesandbox makes packages work in the browser; announcing the new packager