JSter #132: Libraries and more

They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our JavaScript!

It’s time for a new year. I summarized mine in a post. 2018 was a good one and I hope 2019 will be even better. My next main target is React Finland 2019.

Libraries

• Mermaid - Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text in a similar manner as markdown
• satya164/web-worker-proxy - A better way of working with web workers
• Nearley - Modern parser toolkit for JavaScript

Frameworks

• Tech Trends Showdown🏆: React vs Angular vs Vue
• Quasar Framework - High Performance Full Frontend Stack
• 10 Best Node.js Frameworks in 2018

Articles

• A night experimenting with Lit-HTML

Tutorials

• A new approach to mocking GraphQL data
• NgRx + Facades: Better State Management
• So you think you know JavaScript functions

TypeScript

• akx/autotypes - Finds non-stub @types/ packages for your package.json
• ee-ts - Type-safe event emitters for TypeScript
• With TypeScript 3, you are already missing out when mocking or faking
• Using IxMonad to enforce good hamburger building in TypeScript

Guides

• A Complete Introduction to State Machines in JavaScript

Testing

• Cypress - JavaScript End to End Testing Framework
• rickhanlonii/jest-watch-master - Jest watch plugin for checking changes since master
• bvaughn/jest-react-profiler - Jest helpers for working with the React Profiler API

Tools

• cdonohue/polychrome - Easy color manipulation in ~2kb (gzipped)
• npm-scripts-info - Display the description of your npm scripts

Legacy

• felixrieseberg/windows95 - Windows 95 in Electron