JSter #99: Libraries, articles, interviews, and more

Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in JavaScript anymore.

My Fall Tour is on its way. I’m running especially webpack clinics where people get a quick overview of the topic while gaining solutions to their specific problems.

Libraries

{{ screenshot: https://github.com/haltu/muuri }}

• idx - A utility function for traversing properties on objects and arrays.
• spacetime - Manage timezones.
• Muuri - MIT-licensed alternative to Masonry.
• upring - Application-level sharding for Node based on streams.

Architectures

• SAM - State-Action-Model, a new reactive/functional pattern that simplifies front-end architectures.

Programming Languages

• VVVV.js - The visual programming language for the browser.

Articles

• Why WebAssembly is Faster Than asm.js
• Preact internals #1: the easy parts
• Ten Things A Serious JavaScript Developer Should Learn

Cheat Sheets

• jQuery Cheat Sheet (png, pdf)

Techniques

• JavaScript tools for end-to-end testing web applications
• What’s up with monomorphism?

Interviews

• documentation.js - The documentation system for modern JavaScript - Interview with Tom MacWright
• Rill - Universal web application framework - Interview with Dylan Piercey
• d-l-l - Easy, automatic, optimized DLL config handler for webpack - Interview with James Wiens
• Material-UI - React Components that Implement Google’s Material Design - Interview with Olivier Tassinari

Tools

• Introducing sphinx-js, a better way to document large JavaScript projects
• Introducing npx: an npm package runner
• CodeceptJS 1.0 - The popular acceptance testing tool has reached a major milestone.
• CSS Triggers - Figure out what triggers a reflow.