JSter #145: Libraries and more

There's no place like JavaScript

It has been a busy month. I had to skip the previous edition of JSter as I was busy with CSSCamp and JSCamp in Barcelona. Now I'm back in action.

Libraries

• ungap - Pragmatic polyfills
• Fastify v2 is coming to town
• interact.js - JavaScript drag and drop, resizing, and multi-touch gestures for modern browsers (and also IE9+)
• Newton Graph Library - High-level dashboard visualization for architects and stakeholders
• lukeed/classico - A tiny (255B) shim when Element.classList cannot be used~!
• TypeScript + Machine Learning + simplicity = Kalimdor.js
• Splitting.js - CSS Vars for split words & chars! (items, grids, images, too!)
• ScrollOut - ScrollOut detects changes in scroll for reveal, parallax, and CSS Variable effects!
• sadick254/scoped-style - A tiny css-in-js library

Frameworks

• jaredpalmer/after.js - Next.js-like framework for server-rendered React apps built with React Router 4
• GoogleChromeLabs/carlo - Web rendering surface for Node applications

Techniques

• Add GUI to your E2E API tests

Languages

• google/wwwbasic - BASIC language for the web

TypeScript

• TypeScript AST Viewer
• Announcing TypeScript 3.2
• Type holes in TypeScript
• dsherret/ts-morph - TypeScript Compiler API wrapper for static analysis and programmatic code changes

WebAssembly

• WebAssembly doesn’t make unsafe languages safe (yet)

Tools

• BrunnerLivio/try - Quickly try out NPM packages inside a container
• xaviervia/which-ramda-function-should-i-use
• release-it - Automate versioning and package publishing
• HTTP Toolkit - Capture, view and debug your Node.js and web JS's HTTP traffic
• webpack-nano - A teensy, squeaky 🐤 clean Webpack CLI

Courses

• Free React Native Course by Hasura

Articles

• The Power of Web Components

Interviews

• Secure Coding - Interview with Liran Tal

Standards

• JSON Resume - JSON-based standard for resumes