JSter #109: Libraries, articles, the usual

Chuck Norris debugs JavaScript code by staring at it. The code confesses eventually.

Leftpad 2.0 occurred as pinkie-promise was pulled from npm by accident. For this reason, it can be a good idea to run a proxy such as verdaccio in front of npm as it isolates you from these kind of rare disasters.

We started the sales for React Finland 2018 (24-26.4.2018, Helsinki) and we've almost run out of our early bird tickets! There are also sponsorship options for companies.

I wrote a small summary on 2017. I took my first proper vacation in years so this mailing list was on a brief hiatus. It's back to one post per two weeks again.

Libraries

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• Drulac/template-literal - Simple template engine built on top of the new syntax.
• Nuxt.js 1.0 is out 🎉 - Nuxt.js is like Next.js but for Vue.
• anime.js - Animations made easy.
• Why Ramda? - Why would you use Ramda over Lodash and such?

Articles

• New moniker rules for npm
• The story of Cerebral - Cerebral is perhaps the most underappreciated state management solution out there.
• JavaScript Security Awareness - BlueClosure
• The Current State of Implementation and Planning for ESModules

Guides

• WebGL2 Fundamentals
• Developing NPM Packages - See also my free maintenance book to learn more about the topic.

Techniques

• An Actor, a model and an architect walk onto the web...

Interviews

• BEM - Methodology to enable reuse in front-end development - Interview with Sergey Berezhnoy

Cheatsheets

• npm vs. Yarn Cheat Sheet

Tools

• fhinkel/type-profile - Collect runtime type information of your JavaScript code.
• Iroh - Dynamic code analysis for JavaScript.
• wix/detox - Gray Box E2E Tests and Automation Library for Mobile Apps.
• GoogleChrome/rendertron - A dockerized, headless Chrome rendering solution.