JSter #156: Libraries, and more

It's 2020 and we're still coding JavaScript

The first React Finland mini-conference took place 28th of May. I've included the videos from the session in the link and it also includes the QAs and the end panel.

The next mini-conf is going to be about state management and it's going to happen 27th of August.

Libraries

• nikersify/pico - Take browser screenshots in Javascript
• dfahlander/Dexie.js - A Minimalistic Wrapper for IndexedDB
• jncraton/box-line-text - Simple virtual whiteboarding
• imazen/imageflow - High-performance image manipulation for web servers. Includes imageflow_server, imageflow_tool, and libimageflow
• better-logging - An alternative logger for JavaScript
• Recoil - A state management library for React
• manassarpatwar/Self-driving-AI - Self driving cars using NEAT

Frameworks

• Blitz.js - Rails-like framework for monolithic, full-stack React apps — built on Next.js
• Pixelbox.js - Create 2D games in JavaScript

Tools

• aholachek/bundle-wizard - Magically easy insight into the JavaScript loaded by a web app
• Lerna Update Wizard - Command line interface for simplifying the process of bulk updating dependencies across multiple Lerna or Yarn Workspace packages.
• Preconstruct - Dev and build your code painlessly in monorepos
• Excalidraw - Simple collaborative drawing on the web
• @yarnpkg/plugin-typescript - This plugin automatically adds @types/ packages into your dependencies when you add a package that doesn't include its own types.
• atlassian/changesets - Changesets automate changelog generation
• @manypkg/get-packages - A simple utility to get the packages from a monorepo, whether they're using Yarn, Bolt or pnpm
• ESLint v7.0.0 released
• stefanjudis/netlify-menubar - Netlify menubar app to receive build information or trigger new builds

CSS

• Animate.css - Just-add-water CSS animations
• 98.css - CSS like it's 1998
• @stitches/css - Atomic css-in-js

Resources

• Weekly News for Busy Web Devs - Programming Digest is a weekly curated newsletter with the five most interesting stories in programming 👩‍💻, data 💾, and tech 📱️.

Tutorials

• How to Use Workbox With Next.js
• Loading web pages fast on a $20 feature phone
• How to detect if an object has been garbage collected in Javascript
• HTML DOM - How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

Articles

• AMP + Web Vitals – a better web, together
• The Cost of Javascript Frameworks
• Good, Fast, Cheap -- pick any two.

Languages

• Hegel - An advanced static type checker
• Node.js version 14 is available now
• Deno, a Node.js alternative, has reached 1.0

Testing

• testonjs/teston - Test runner similar to tape, but with ES6 module support, simpler subtest syntax and nice indentation

GraphQL

• GraphQL Nexus - Declarative, Code-First GraphQL Schemas for JavaScript/TypeScript
• Relay: the GraphQL client that wants to do the dirty work for you