JSter #84: News of December 2016 - Part 1

JavaScript another day

webpack 2 reached a new release candidate and final release seems imminent. To keep up with the world, I updated my webpack book to webpack 2 beta. In addition to the update, I refreshed the content quite a bit. There's still work left to be done, though.

Libraries

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• Oboe.js - Streaming JSON loading for Node and browsers
• RxJS 5.0 - Reactive extensions
• three.js - A new major release
• js-cookie - Simple cookies
• legible - Fluent HTTP queries
• premonish - Predict where the user is going to click
• brianneisler/mudash - Lodash wrapper for Immutable.js

Articles

• Writing efficient JavaScript – Felix Maier
• Angular: Ok... let me explain: it's going to be Angular 4.0, or just Angular
• Fun hacks for faster content

Techniques

• Best Practices for Spies, Stubs and Mocks in Sinon.js
• deebloo/things-you-can-do-in-a-web-worker

Interviews

• Inferno - Blazing fast, React-like UI library - Interview with Dominic Gannaway
• Svelte - The magical disappearing UI framework - Interview with Rich Harris

Tools

• Firebug has been discontinued
• TypeStyle - Making CSS typesafe
• vue-test - Component testing for Vue.js
• simeji/jid - JSON Incremental Digger
• Flexplorer - Learn how Flexbox works

Demos

• 60 fps parallax demo by Google
• Sentence length visualization