JSter #118: Libraries and more

JavaScript or not

I’ll be going to Graz and Hamburg this Summer. Both are new cities to me so those should be fun trips to make.

Libraries

• JavaScript data validation with Forx
• Blotter.js - A JavaScript API for drawing unconventional text effects on the web
• Stencil - The magical, reusable web component compiler

CSS

• Kanbasu - A lightweight CSS framework written in Sass

Articles

• Architecture of a high performance GraphQL to SQL engine
• ReasonML - React as first intended
• Writing an easing function; a slightly interesting story
• Inference engines: 5 examples with TypeScript, Flow and Reason

Guides

• The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Frameworks
• hemanth/functional-programming-jargon

Techniques

• Async without await, Await without async
• Parallax scrolling with CSS variables
• CSS Paint API

Tools

• fastpack - Faster than blazing fast bundler
• lorenzofox3/zora - Lightest, yet Fastest Javascript test runner for nodejs and browsers
• Percy - Solving visual testing across design, development, and deployment

Demos

• Trianglify by @qrohlf
• Webamp - Winamp 2 in your browser