JSter #151: Libraries and more

2020 is the year of JavaScript on desktop

2020 is shaping up to be yet another year of JavaScript. React Finland (25-29.05) is almost out of early bird tickets so if you are coming and haven’t picked up a ticket yet, it’s a good chance to do that.

Libraries

• Tippy.js - Tippy.js is a highly customizable tooltip and popover library powered by Popper.js
• Sidewind - Like Tailwind but for state
• Availity - Validation for reactstrap
• amplify-js - A declarative JavaScript library for application development using cloud services
• MenuSpy - A JavaScript library to make navigation menus activate the item based on currently in view section.
• etienne-dldc/literal-parser - A small library to parse JavaScript array/object literal
• etienne-dldc/democrat - React, but for state management
• DataLoader v2.0 - Data fetching layer for your application

Frameworks

• alpine - A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup
• neo - The webworkers driven UI framework
• Inertia.js - Build single-page apps, without building an API

Articles

• The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland
• A case for using void in modern JavaScript
• The evolution of web design in the 2010s
• How I stopped loving Angular
• You may not need Axios

Resources

• Roadmaps to becoming a modern developer

Tools

• One-com/livestyle - NodeJS middleware and binary for setting up a webserver that notifies the browser of CSS updates
• terotests/ts2swagger - Create Swagger API from TypeScript classes
• Introducing Scully: the Angular Static Site Generator
• mikeal/reg - Native ESM Package Manager
• syncpack - Manage multiple package.json files, such as in Lerna Monorepos and Yarn Workspaces

Services

• npm pro - A new offering by npm for individual developers

TypeScript

• cevek/ttypescript - TypeScript tool to use custom transformers in the tsconfig.json

3D

• X3D: Declarative 3D for the Modern Web
• WebGLStudio.js - 3D Development environment for the web

Interviews

• Squareboat - Growing an IT Business - Interview with Gaurav Gupta

CSS

• Does JavaScript keep you too busy to care about CSS? Here are recent features you want to know about!

APIs

• Replay - Record user behavior and play it back later

Tutorials

• Making a Better Custom Select Element

Demos

• Dear ImGui JavaScript + WebGL example