JSter #172: Libraries, and more

JavaScript shot first.

The week of React Finland (30.08-03.09) is here. There will be a lot of content and many topics go beyond React so be sure to tune in.

Libraries

• Mirage JS - An API mocking library for frontend
• perceived-dev/optimistic-state - Optimistic state with rollbacks and race condition handling
• What’s Coming in React 18
• React Navigation 6.0
• sindresorhus/p-queue - Promise queue with concurrency control
• polygonplanet/chillout - Reduce CPU usage by non-blocking async loop and psychologically speed up in JavaScript
• daisyUI - Tailwind CSS Components

Frameworks

• Milkdown - Plugin Based WYSIWYG Markdown Editor Framework

TypeScript

• Announcing the New TypeScript Homepage
• egoist/tsup - The simplest and fastest way to bundle your TypeScript libraries.
• Announcing TypeScript 4.4 RC
• Practical introduction to algebraic datatypes (ADTs) in TypeScript

Tools

• lahmatiy/react-render-tracker - React render tracker – a tool to discover performance issues related to unintentional re-renders and unmounts
• unjs/unplugin - Unified plugin system for Vite, Rollup, and Webpack
• LingDong-/fishdraw - Procedurally generated fish drawings
• Astro - Build faster websites with less client-side JavaScript

Articles

• 9 Super Useful Tricks for JavaScript Developers
• How to Build an Android News App with React Native and Native Base
• How to Set up Push Notifications in React Native
• Microsoft wonders if disabling just-in-time compilation of JavaScript improves browser security
• Writing JavaScript, but with types!
• Empty npm package ‘-‘ has over 700,000 downloads

GraphQL

• GraphQL Response Caching with Envelop
• GQty - A GraphQL client built for rapid iteration
• marmelab/json-graphql-server - Get a full fake GraphQL API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds.