JSter #102: Libraries, and more

There's no time like JavaScript time.

Time goes fast when you are having fun. I spent a week in Israel and wrote about my experiences on React Next 2017. In short, it's a great event worth visiting.

Libraries

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• automat/controlkit.js - A lightweight controller and GUI library.
• AOS - Animate on scroll library.
• ScrollMagic - Magical scroll interactions.
• unified - An interface for processing text with syntax trees and transforming between them.
• Pressure.js - Handle different touch interfaces through a single interface.
• Freactal - State management for React and React-like libraries.

Tutorials

• Build Yourself a Redux

Techniques

• Importing CSS as React/Preact components with webpack and unicorns
• Modern Modules in Node

Interviews

• FrintJS - Build reactive applications with React and RxJS - Interview with Fahad Ibnay Heylaal.

Tools

• tkh44/babel-plugin-sitrep - Log all assignments and the return value of a function with a simple comment.
• Prepack - A tool for making JavaScript code run faster.
• Yarn 1.0 - Workspaces and other goodies.