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We should be using Web Workers a lot more than we are..
#441 — June 14, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly43 JavaScript Questions, With Their Answers Explained— Want to test your JavaScript knowledge? Whether for fun or a job interview, this is an...
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V8 7.6, an intro to Web Components, and a task library from Microsoft
#442 — June 21, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyTOAST UI Grid 4.0 Released— TOAST UI Grid (see samples here) is a powerful and customizable grid control for the Web that supports editing,...
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Keep betting on JavaScript, says Kyle Simpson
#443 — June 28, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThe Cost of JavaScript in 2019— Almost a year ago, we linked to Addy Osmani’s Cost of JavaScript in 2018 article, and he’s back with an update for...
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It's a big week for Babel
#444 — July 5, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyBabel 7.5.0 Released— The popular JavaScript compiler now includes an official plugin for dynamic imports (currently in stage 4) and the F# style...
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Two new JavaScript engines walked into a foobar..
#445 — July 12, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyQuickJS: A New, Small, Embeddable JavaScript Engine— Fabrice, the genius behind FFMPEG and JSLinux, is back with another project.. a complete JS...
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How Googlebot runs JavaScript, a new JS platform for HTTP services, and some...
#446 — July 19, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklySmashtest: A Language for Describing Test Cases— A Cucumber-esque way to write end to end tests in a more natural way but which essentially boil down...
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Mithril 2, and some practical ways to write better JavaScript
#447 — July 26, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript Weekly▶ Creating JavaScript: The Story of JavaScript's Birth— A very highly produced narrative podcast episode that digs into the history of JavaScript...
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Electron 6, a String#replace trick, and learning about scope in JS
#448 — August 2, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyHotkey: Trigger an Action on an Element When a Keyboard 'Hotkey' is Pressed— Want quick and simple keyboard shortcuts for elements on your page? Set...
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React 16.9, globalThis, and a Minecraft clone in JavaScript
#449 — August 9, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyReact v16.9 Released and a Roadmap Update— BTW, if you’re a React developer, be sure to check out our React-specific newsletter for goodies like how...
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A guide to improving 3rd-party JavaScript performance
#450 — August 16, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyJavaScript and Node Testing Best Practices— Almost 50 best practices divided into categories (backend, frontend, CI, etc.) complete with code...
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Using native modules in production today
#451 — August 23, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyUsing Native JavaScript Modules in Production Today— “now, thanks to some recent advances in bundler technology, it’s possible to deploy your...
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Firefox's faster JS interpreter, and npm's ban on terminal text ads
#452 — August 30, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyHow JavaScript Grew Up and Became a 'Real' Language— If you were in the JavaScript space in the early 2000s, skip this one.. but I still remember...
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Firefox 69, and a thorough introduction to D3.js
#453 — September 6, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyAn Introduction to D3.js— A fantastic, well presented introduction to D3, a popular JavaScript-based data-visualization library, and its...
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V8 Lite, accurate timing in JavaScript, and generating a million digits of Pi
#454 — September 13, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyV8's Work on a Lighter V8— V8 Lite has been a project aimed at reducing V8’s memory usage. Initially it was going to be a separate mode of V8...
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Why 0.1 + 0.2 doesn't equal what you'd think..
#455 — September 20, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyWikipedia's JavaScript Initialization on a Budget— As one of the world’s most heavily used sites, Wikipedia wants to keep things running as...
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V8 7.8, Node 12.11, and a Douglas Crockford book review
#456 — September 27, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThe Making of a 13 Kilobyte JS Real-Time Strategy Game— Last week we linked to the 200+ entries in the recent JS13KGames contest, but if you’ve...
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Preact X, Node-RED 1.0, and TypeScript 3.7 beta
#457 — October 4, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyPreact X: A Fast, 3KB React Alternative— Two years in the making, the latest version of Preact, a popular lightweight React-compatible alternative,...
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A Closer Look at Top-Level `await`
#458 — October 11, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyroughViz.js: Create Hand-Drawn Styled Charts in the Browser— Supports bar, donut, line, pie and scatter charts for now and uses Rough.js under the...
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Should 'JavaScript' be rebranded?
#459 — October 18, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyShould We Rebrand 'JavaScript'?— I think most of us can agree there are problems with ‘JavaScript’ as a name, but is it worth rebranding it? “JS”...
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Mutable state, Electron 7.0, Node 13, and TypeScript 3.7 RC1
#460 — October 25, 2019Read on the WebJavaScript WeeklyThe Problems of Shared Mutable State and How to Avoid Them— A deep dive from JavaScript maven Dr. Axel on mutable state, how it can cause problems...
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