---
template: newsLetter
path: /newsletters/7
date: 2020-10-06T14:59:36.571Z
title: ECMAScript 2021 on the horizon.
issue: 7
---

# Issue: #7

October 6th, 2020

### [Hacktoberfest](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com) will run all this October to support open source.

### 📌 Short Updates

-   [Feature watch: ECMAScript 2021](https://2ality.com/2020/09/ecmascript-2021.html) - Dr. Axel always keeps tabs on the new features coming to future versions of ECMAScript and he’s now started to do the same for the forthcoming ES2021.

-   [Vue.js 3.0 "One Piece"](https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next/releases/tag/v3.0.0) Released - The 3.0 release represents over 2 years of development efforts, featuring 30+ RFCs, 2,600+ commits, 600+ pull requests from 99 contributors, plus tremendous amount of development and documentation work outside of the core repo.

-   [Deno 1.4 Released](https://deno.land/posts/v1.4) - support for a WebSocket API (which you can use from Deno just like you would in a browser), automatic restarts on file changes, integrated test coverage support, and more.

-   [What's new in Svelte](https://svelte.dev/blog/whats-new-in-svelte-october-2020) - New object methods, in-depth learning resources and tons of integration examples!

-   [npm 7 rc](https://blog.npmjs.org/post/630786103662821376/release-v700-rc0) - with support for named exports for CommonJS modules.

-   [Introducing the New JSX Transform](https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/09/22/introducing-the-new-jsx-transform.html) - say goodbye to: import React from 'react';

### 🗞 Articles and Projects

-   [Why Do We Interface?](https://whydoweinterface.com/) - A micro-book with incomplete observations on human-computer
    interfaces by [Ehsan Noursalehi ](https://twitter.com/thisisehsan)

-   [Understanding the Event Loop, Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await](https://www.taniarascia.com/asynchronous-javascript-event-loop-callbacks-promises-async-await/) - concepts from ground up.

-   [Inspecting Just-in-Time Compiled JavaScript](https://blog.mozilla.org/attack-and-defense/2020/09/15/inspecting-just-in-time-compiled-javascript/) - highly technical and detailed article by Mozilla about security implications of Just-in-Time (JIT) Compilers in browsers

-   [How HTTPS Works](https://howhttps.works/why-do-we-need-https/) - comic explanation to "how HTTPS actually works"

-   [How Do I Learn to Write Better Code?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24551229) - Some useful advice in this Hacker News discussion.

-   [MDN Browser Compatibility Report](https://mdn-web-dna.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/MDN-Browser-Compatibility-Report-2020.pdf) - The MDN Browser Compatibility Report is a deeper dive into web and frontend related issues. #PDF

-   [Introducing visx from Airbnb](https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/introducing-visx-from-airbnb-fd6155ac4658) - A collection of expressive, low-level visualization primitives for React.

-   [The React Cheatsheet for 2020](https://dev.to/codeartistryio/the-react-cheatsheet-for-2020-real-world-examples-4hgg) - Visual cheatsheet of all of the concepts and skills you need to master React in 2020.

-   [URLCat](https://github.com/balazsbotond/urlcat) - A URL builder library for JavaScript.

-   [Wikipedia's new Look](https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/09/23/wikipedia-is-getting-a-new-look-for-the-first-time-in-10-years-heres-why/) - Wikipedia is getting a new look for the first time in 10 years.

-   [Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code](https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/10/01/microsoft-edge-tools-vscode/) - VS code now supports the elements and networks tab within the coding environment itself.

-   [Guidelines to improve your React folder structure](https://maxrozen.com/guidelines-improve-react-app-folder-structure) - "Move files around until it feels right."

### 🧩 Conferences and events

-   [Vue.js Global](https://www.vuejs.amsterdam/) - Online Event held on September 17-18, 2020. Watch [Videos ](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCxzy-hmQq9FnnpckFDeDtbpsUqxdheQn)

-   [Jamstack Conf](https://jamstackconf.com/virtual/) - Online event on October 6-7, 2020. Follow [@jamstackconf](https://twitter.com/jamstackconf)

-   [TSConf](https://tsconf.io/) - Online event on October 9, 2020. Follow [@TypeScriptConf](https://twitter.com/TypeScriptConf)

### 📺 Blast from the past

-   [A tale of two MVC's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1dhXamEAKQ) - Talk by Yehuda Katz at GoGaRuCo 2013, enlightens us with history of UI development and things around MVC. #video

-   [Memory Management Masterclass](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaxbdIyBkL0) - Talk by Addy Osmani, answers the question - how to effectively keep memory usage down because if too much is consumed, a page might be killed, forcing the user to reload it and cry in a corner. Automatic garbage collection isn't a substitute for effective memory management, especially in large, long-running web apps. #video

### 🎨 Meanwhile on the web

-   [Build Pac-Man Game With JavaScript](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBtzzVwrTeE)

-   [devurls.com](https://devurls.com/) - News cheatsheet

-   [Awesome Falsehood](https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood) - A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.

-   [Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 minutes ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbZFj-cLvk) - World Record Speedrun Explained

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ECMAScript 2021 on the horizon.

---
template: newsLetter
path: /newsletters/6
date: 2020-09-15T14:59:36.571Z
title: JavaScript, JavaScript, everywhere!
issue: 6
---

# Issue: #6

September 15th, 2020

### 📌 Short Updates

-   [AVIF has landed](https://jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-landed) - In-depth introduction to AVIF by Jake Archibald

-   [Deno 1.3.2](https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases/tag/v1.3.2) Released which is now using TypeScript 4.0

-   [Underscore.js 1.11.0](https://underscorejs.org/#1.11.0) - The Long Standing Functional Helper Library Goes Modular

-   [How to Use AVIF](https://reachlightspeed.com/blog/using-the-new-high-performance-avif-image-format-on-the-web-today/) - The New Next-Gen Image Compression Format

-   [WCAG 2.2 Overview](https://webaim.org/blog/wcag-2-2-overview-and-feedback/) - A working draft of version 2.2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

-   [Well-known URL for changing passwords](https://web.dev/change-password-url/) - By redirecting requests to a well-known URL for password changes, you can let users update their passwords easier than before.

-   [Bootstrap Icons](https://icons.getbootstrap.com/) - For the first time ever, Bootstrap has its own icon library.

### 🗞 Articles and Projects

-   [Mastering Hard Parts of JavaScript](https://dev.to/ryanameri/mastering-hard-parts-of-javascript-callbacks-i-3aj0) - 17 Part Series to mastering the monstrous JavaScript.

-   [JavaScript Engines: An Overview](https://blog.bitsrc.io/javascript-engines-an-overview-2162bffa1187) - Understand the basics of a JavaScript Engine

-   [JavaScript for Data Science](https://js4ds.org/) - Book by Maya Gans, Toby Hodges, and Greg Wilson, focussing on JavaScript and Data Science.

-   [DevTools architecture refresh: Migrating to JavaScript modules](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/09/migrating-to-js-modules) - This post is part of a series of blog posts describing the changes we are making to DevTools' architecture and how it is built.

-   [Cross-App Bundling](https://medium.com/swlh/cross-app-bundling-a-different-approach-for-micro-frontends-e4f212b6a9a) - A Different Approach for Micro Frontends

-   [How Fast Should Your Site Load?](https://medium.com/firebase-developers/how-fast-should-your-site-load-cfb14be48e8b) - The answer shouldn’t be a fixed number

-   [Creating Extensions for Visual Studio Code](https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/post/creating-extensions-for-visual-studio-code-a-complete-guide.aspx) - A Complete Guide on creating VSCode Extension

-   [Dot Browser](https://github.com/dothq/browser) - Take back your privacy with Dot Browser, the privacy-conscious web browser that protects you from being tracked and monitored based on Firefox.

### 🧩 Conferences and events

-   [CityJS Conference](https://cityjsconf.org/) - Ongoing Online event on September 14-18, 2020. Follow [@cityjsconf](https://twitter.com/cityjsconf). Videos - [Day 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP7dtZm_Wx0), [Day 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UefUuT-M1qQ)

-   [Vue.js Global](https://www.vuejs.amsterdam/) - Online Event on September 17-18, 2020. Follow [@vuejsamsterdam](https://twitter.com/@vuejsamsterdam)

-   [RxJS Live! London](https://www.rxjs.live/london) - Online Event on September 17-18, 2020 focussed around RxJS. Follow [@rxjslive](https://twitter.com/RxJSlive)

-   [Vue.js Global](https://www.vuejs.amsterdam/) - Online Event on September 17-18, 2020. Follow [@vuejsamsterdam](https://twitter.com/vuejsamsterdam)

-   [FEM TECH](https://femtechconf.com/) - Online event on September 25, 2020. Follow [@femtechconf](https://twitter.com/femtechconf)

-   [enterJS](https://enterjs.de/) - Online event on September 29 - October 1, 2020. Follow [@enterjsconf](https://twitter.com/enterjsconf)

### 📺 Blast from the past

-   [A sneak peek into super optimized code in JS frameworks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VHNTC67NR8) - Talk by Maxim Koretskyi at JSConf EU 2019, highlights favoring readability over optimization in application development, developers expectation from frameworks to run as fast as possible. and the techniques that make code run faster. #video

-   [Let’s build a JavaScript Engine in Rust ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uD2pijcSi4) - Talk by Jason Williams at JSConf EU 2019, answers the question - how JS engines work? building engine from scratch in Rust. He shares his experience as well as what it is like to work on the specification, collaborate with TC39, and lessons from engines in use today. #video

### 🎨 Meanwhile on the web

-   [Meta Tags](https://metatags.io/) - Preview, Edit & Generate Meta Tags for Social Platforms

-   [Drift](https://driftapp.co/) is a free app that showcases the sights and sounds of beautiful locations around the world.

-   [Apple II emulator](https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/) - built in JavaScript! Check [COde](https://github.com/whscullin/apple2js)

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JavaScript, JavaScript, everywhere!

---
template: newsLetter
path: /newsletters/5
date: 2020-09-01T14:59:36.571Z
title: Dominance of the web
issue: 5
---

# Issue: #5

September 1st, 2020

### 📌 Short Updates

-   [The 6 Major Changes in React v17.0](https://medium.com/better-programming/the-6-major-changes-in-react-v17-0-d14fed5b0529) - There are no new features, just improvements. Also checkout [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImRnLVuVUno) by Harry Wolf.

-   [Deno 1.3.0 Released](https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases/tag/v1.3.0) Released

-   [Announcing TypeScript 4.0](https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-4-0.html) - with Variadic Tuple Type and other cool stuff.

-   [JungleJS](https://www.junglejs.org/) - A new static site generator based on the Svelte framework that leverages GraphQL.

-   [Chrome to Start Highlighting Fast Links on Mobile](https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/highlighting-great-user-experiences-on.html) - Google chrome to highlight great user experiences on the mobile web

### 🗞 Articles and Projects

-   [Web History: Chapter 2 - Browsers](https://css-tricks.com/chapter-2-browsers/) - Another chapter on web history on browsers by [https://css-tricks.com](css-tricks.com)

-   [What I Learned by Fixing One Line of CSS in an Open Source Project](https://css-tricks.com/what-i-learned-by-fixing-one-line-of-css-in-an-open-source-project/) - As the title suggests, Benjamin Schachter, brings to his journey from finding an issue to fixing it, but in an open source project.

-   [The Languages Which Almost Became CSS](https://eager.io/blog/the-languages-which-almost-were-css/)

-   [React TypeScript Cheatsheet](https://react-typescript-cheatsheet.netlify.app/) - As the name suggests, it is Cheatsheet for React and TypeScript by [@swyx](https://twitter.com/swyx) and many others.

-   [Learn Puppeteer & Playwright](https://theheadless.dev/) - Tips, tricks and in-depth guides from the trenches

-   [21 LIFE CHANGING JavaScript tricks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vLCthTptY0) - Nice collection of JavaScript tips and suggestions. Though basic but unheard of. #video

-   [Headless CMS: Everything You Need to Know](https://www.cosmicjs.com/blog/headless-cms-explained) - What a headless CMS is in detail and the many benefits it brings to businesses.

-   [Convert typed text to realistic handwriting!](https://github.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js) - A JS lib to convert typed text to realistic handwriting!

-   [How to Use AVIF](https://reachlightspeed.com/blog/using-the-new-high-performance-avif-image-format-on-the-web-today/) - The New Next-Gen Image Compression Format

-   [Client-Side Architecture](https://khalilstemmler.com/articles/client-side-architecture/introduction/) - A basic guide to client side architecture

### 🧩 Conferences and events

-   [SmashingConf - Freiburg](https://smashingconf.com/freiburg-2020/) - Online event on September 7-8, 2020 from Smashingconf. Follow [@smashingconf](https://twitter.com/smashingconf)

-   [React Live Conference](https://www.reactlive.nl/) - Online event on September 11, 2020. Follow [@reactlivenl](https://twitter.com/reactlivenl)

-   [CityJS Conference](https://cityjsconf.org/) - Online event on September 14-18, 2020. Follow [@cityjsconf](https://twitter.com/cityjsconf)

-   [Vue.js Global](https://www.vuejs.amsterdam/) - Online Event on September 17-18, 2020. Follow [@vuejsamsterdam](https://twitter.com/@vuejsamsterdam)

### 📺 Blast from the past

-   [JavaScript VM internals, EventLoop, Async and ScopeChains](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyUFheng6J0) - Talk by Arindam Paul, focusses on crisp understanding of the JavaScript VM and how a single threaded engine can be massively parallel, how event loop and callbacks works, example of blocking and non-blocking codes, ES6 generators for custom Async signaling. #video

-   [JavaScript Engines: The Good Parts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nmpokoRaZI) - Talk by Mathias Bynens & Benedikt Meurer, explores important ingredients of these modern JavaScript VMs, specifically how ChakraCore, the engine that powers Microsoft Edge, and V8, the engine that powers Google Chrome, compare to each other for certain key features.

### 🎨 Meanwhile on the web

-   [How I became a senior javascript developer with personal projects](https://dev.to/afonsopacifer/how-i-became-a-senior-javascript-developer-with-personal-projects-1lpo)

-   [Debian turns 27!](https://bits.debian.org/2020/08/debian-turns-27.html) Debian's 27th anniversary was on 16th August. Long live Debian and Linux.

-   [Visualizing CSS Resets](https://elijahmanor.com/css-resets)

-   [Google Maps is getting a lot more detail](https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/18/21373363/google-maps-redesign-detail-natural-features-environment?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4)

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Dominance of the web

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template: newsLetter
path: /newsletters/4
date: 2020-08-17T14:59:36.571Z
title: Year of online conferences
issue: 4
---

# Issue: #3 Year of online conferences

August 17th, 2020

### 🗞 Articles and Short Updates

-   [Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8306631.stm) - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary"

-   [What does 100% mean in CSS?](https://wattenberger.com/blog/css-percents) - The basic of "100%" CSS value. Excellent summary with clear visual explainers.

-   [Polymorphism in JavaScript](https://zellwk.com/blog/polymorphism-javascript/) - explore what Polymorphism actually is in JavaScript

-   [Form design](https://gerireid.com/forms.html) - Best practice, research insights and examples for Form Design

-   [Reactivated](https://reactivated.app/) - open-source app that scans your JS dependencies and generates cool dashboards.

-   [Official Redux Essentials](https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-1-overview-concepts) - Official Redux tutorial that will introduce you to Redux and teach you how to use it the right way, using our latest recommended tools and best practices.

-   [What’s New in Chrome DevTools in 2020](https://css-tricks.com/whats-new-in-devtools-2020/) - Brief introduction to features in Chrome DevTools in 2020.

-   [Promise.allSettled](https://davidwalsh.name/promise-allsettled) - by DavidWalsh, covering essentials of `Promises.allSettled`

-   [Jamstack Tools, APIs & Services Compared](https://www.sitepoint.com/jamstack-tools-services-apis/) - comprehensive list of services related to Jamstack development from deployment options to headless CMS, forms, identity solutions and more, with a useful comparison chart for each category.

-   [Why It's OK to Over-engineer Your Blog](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-its-ok-to-overengineer-your-blog/) - An argument in favor of over-engineering your personal blog as a kind of laboratory where you can experiment with new technologies to learn.

-   [The amazing power of service workers](https://gomakethings.com/the-amazing-power-of-service-workers/) - Fun things that you could do with Service Workers on your site today

### 🧩 Conferences and events

-   [JavaScript and Friends Conference](https://www.javascriptandfriends.com/) - Watch all track videos of recently held online events on August 13-14. Follow [JSFriendsConf](https://twitter.com/JSFriendsConf). Checkout all tracks here ->
    [Track 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAhE10TP2a8)
    [Track 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxh_ZolxRPc)
    [Track 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYWLQoLGRMo)
    [Track 4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqFubo31HGY)
    [Track 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuu13NaEqPw)
    [Track 6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ1Yr3fUk4s) #Videos

-   [You Gotta Love Frontend](https://lithuania.yglfconf.com/) - Online event on August 24-28. Follow [@yglf_lt](https://twitter.com/@yglf_lt)

-   [CascadiaJS](https://2020.cascadiajs.com/) - Online event on September 1-2, 2020. Follow [@cascadiajs](https://twitter.com/cascadiajs)

-   [React Native EU](https://www.react-native.eu/) - Online event on September 3-4, 2020. Follow [@react_native_eu](https://twitter.com/react_native_eu)

-   [SmashingConf - Freiburg](https://smashingconf.com/freiburg-2020/) - Online event on September 7-8, 2020 from Smashingconf. Follow [@smashingconf](https://twitter.com/smashingconf)

### 📺 Blast from the past

-   [Deno, a new way to JavaScript](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjdJzNoT_qg) - Talk by Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, at HolyJS introducing deno. Recently his ambitious project `deno`came out of beta and got released. #video

-   [Immutable data structures for functional JS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo0qiGPSV-s) - Talk by Anjana Vakil focussing on "efficiently make new “modified” versions of immutable objects" and introduction to libraries like Mori and Immutable.js for immutable Data structure. #video

### 🎨 Meanwhile on the web

-   [Awesome Falsehood](https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood) - Awesome curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.

-   [Laws of UX](https://lawsofux.com/) - Laws of UX is a set of principles for designers/developers to think while building UI/UX

-   [How to Secure Anything](https://github.com/veeral-patel/how-to-secure-anything) - Repo focusing on securing anything including physical or digital assets

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Year of online conferences

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template: newsLetter
path: /newsletters/3
date: 2020-08-03T14:59:36.571Z
title: The double equality game
issue: 3
---
# Issue: #3 The double equality game

August 3rd, 2020

### 📖 Posts

[The JavaScript comparison table - All about `==` operator](https://theanubhav.com/2020/03/22/coercion-js-equality) - Presenting JavaScript equality game and the rules that should be used to solve it. Step by step solution coming soon...

### 📌 Short Updates

-   [Firefox 79 Released](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/firefox-79/) - offers a new Promise method, more secure target=\_blank links, logical assignment operators, and other updates of interest to web developers.

-   [GitHub public roadmap](https://github.com/github/roadmap) - Github rolls out the official GitHub public product roadmap.

### 🗞 Articles

-   [What is closure?](https://whatthefork.is/closure) - A take on closure in JavaScript by Dan Abramov

-   [Simulating Object Collisions With Canvas](https://joshbradley.me/object-collisions-with-canvas/) - As the name suggests, it is simulating object collision using Canvas.

-   [Things I Wish I’d Known About CSS](https://cssfordesigners.com/articles/things-i-wish-id-known-about-css) - "I really wish I’d taken the time to learn CSS properly.Here are some things I didn’t know that I wish I’d learned earlier."

-   [awesome-GPT-3](https://github.com/elyase/awesome-gpt3) - This is brains behind the new AI we've been [seeing](https://twitter.com/jsngr/status/1287026808429383680) which takes natural language queues to develop a website.

-   [this vs that](https://thisthat.dev/) - What is the difference between this and that in the front-end development?

-   [Javascript, Interpreted or Compiled](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLFeOkqRUJ8) - Is Javascript interpreted or compiled? #Video

### 🧩 Upcoming Conferences and events

-   [FrontCon](https://2020.frontcon.com/) - Front end conference in Riga, Latvia + Online on August 12-14

-   [JavaScript and Friends Conference](https://www.javascriptandfriends.com/) - Online Event on August 13-14. Follow [JSFriendsConf](https://twitter.com/JSFriendsConf)

-   [Vue.js Global](https://www.vuejs.amsterdam/) - Online Event on August 13-14. Follow [@vuejsamsterdam](https://twitter.com/@vuejsamsterdam)

-   [You Gotta Love Frontend](https://lithuania.yglfconf.com/) - Online event on August 27-28. Follow [@yglf_lt](https://twitter.com/@yglf_lt)

### 📺 Blast from the past

-   [Ten Things I Regret About Node.js](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA) - Talk by Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, at JSConf EU. Recently his ambitious project `deno`came out of beta and got released. #video

-   [How Browsers Work: Behind the scenes of modern web browsers](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowserswork/) - Article by Tali Garsiel and Paul Irish is a comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and Gecko. Dated to 2011, browsers have certainly evolved now.

### 🎨 Meanwhile on the web

-   [macintosh.js](https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js) - Electron app pretending to be a 1991 Macintosh Quadra

-   [TheirTube](http://www.their.tube/) - How do the recommended videos look on their Youtube home page? #MediaRant

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The double equality game

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template: newsLetter
path: /newsletters/2
date: 2020-07-20T14:59:36.571Z
title: Linking is not a piece of cake...
issue: 2
---

# Issue: #2 Linking is not a piece of cake...

July 20th, 2020

### 📖 Posts

[Linking is not a piece of cake](https://theanubhav.com/2020/02/20/linking-is-not-easy/) - In-depth information on the anchor tag `<a>` in HTML.
Anchor tag is more than just a simple link, this article is an attempt to cover various available attributes and make the use of it, including possible attributes, security and JavaScript ways of doing things.

### 📌 Short Updates

-   [Chrome 84 Beta Released](https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/chrome-84-beta-web-otp-web-animations.html) - With Web OTP, Web Animations, New Origin Trials and More...
-   [Chrome Feature: CSS Overview](https://css-tricks.com/new-in-chrome-css-overview/) - Here’s a fancy new experimental feature in Chrome! Now, we can get an overview of the CSS used on a site, from how many colors there are to the number of unused declarations… even down to the total number of defined media queries.
-   [Microsoft Edge 84 Released](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-relnote-stable-channel) - Edge 84 is based on Chromium 84, and should include all web platform features available in Chromium 84.
-   Firefox 78 [enables link rel=”preload” ](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Preloading_content)support and has additional CSS Selector support.
-   [Safari](https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#anti-fingerprinting) & [Firefox declines to Implement Web USB and other Privacy Sensitive APIs](https://twitter.com/marcosc/status/1277737614687170560) #Tweet
-   Google Launches An [Organization to Open Source Trademarks](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/07/announcing-new-kind-of-open-source.html)
-   [Safari Technology Preview](https://webkit.org/blog/6017/introducing-safari-technology-preview/) - Release 110 is now available for macOS.

### 🗞 News & Articles

-   [Some Causes of Memory Leaks in JavaScript and How to Avoid Them](https://javascriptweekly.com/link/89346/6f4cca59d5) — A primer on the basic ideas.
-   [whatthefuck.is](https://whatthefuck.is/) - Another awesome site from Dan Abramov that will try to cover a few terminologies in the frontend world. The github issues list is the thing to watch out for. People are asking "what the fuck is..." something. Starting off with [closure](https://whatthefuck.is/closure) for this week. There is also [curse free site](https://whatthefork.is/).
-   [How Did Vim Become So Popular](https://pragmaticpineapple.com/how-did-vim-become-so-popular/) - Answer to "How did Vim-craze take over the world at some point?"
-   [Static generated sites vs SSR Apps](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/07/differences-static-generated-sites-server-side-rendered-apps/) - Differences Between Static Generated Sites And Server-Side Rendered Apps
-   [Core Web Vitals](https://calibreapp.com/blog/core-web-vitals) is a set of metrics portraying three aspects of user experience: loading, interactivity and visual stability.
-   [Adding a README to your GitHub profile](https://elitedamyth.xyz/2020-07-12-Customizing-GitHub) - Here is a quick article on [How to create Github profile readme](https://www.aboutmonica.com/blog/how-to-create-a-github-profile-readme) With a few minutes of work, you can make your GitHub Profile Look Cool! There is also [Awesome-Profile-README-templates](https://github.com/kautukkundan/Awesome-Profile-README-templates) repository based on the awesome list.
-   [GitHub Archive Program](https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-journey-of-the-worlds-open-source-code-to-the-arctic/) - the journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic

### 🎟 Upcoming Conferences and events

-   [ForwardJS](https://forwardjs.com/sanfrancisco/) - Online Event on July 20-24. Follow [@forwardJS](https://twitter.com/forwardjs)
-   [Angular NL Conference](https://www.angularnl.com/) - Online Event on July 24. Follow [@angularnl](https://twitter.com/angularnl)
-   [Create: Front-end](https://createfrontenddevelopers.splashthat.com/) - Online Event on July 29.
-   [ViennaCalling](https://webclerks.at/vienna-calling/) - July 29 — An online meetup for for "all who work on the web".
-   [FrontCon 2020](https://2020.frontcon.com/) - August 12-14 2020 @ Riga,**Latvia**
-   [JavaScript and Friends Conference](https://www.javascriptandfriends.com/) - Online Event on August 13-14. Follow [JSFriendsConf](https://twitter.com/JSFriendsConf)
-   [Vue.js Global](https://www.vuejs.amsterdam/) - Online Event on August 13-14. Follow [@vuejsamsterdam](https://twitter.com/@vuejsamsterdam)

### 📺 Blast from the past

-   [What is Virtual DOM](https://jbi.sh/what-is-virtual-dom/) - A deep dive in concept of Virtual DOM that is has become performance reason in modern frontend frameworks like React
-   [In The Loop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOL7MC4Pl0) - Talk by Jake Archibald in JSConf.Asia 2018 looks at the browser's event loop, the thing that orchestrates the main thread of the browser and difference between tasks, microtasks, requestAnimationFrame, requestIdleCallback, and where events land. Also check the [article](https://jakearchibald.com/2015/tasks-microtasks-queues-and-schedules/) by Jake Archibald from 2015 on the same topic. #Video

### 🎨 Meanwhile on the web

-   [bigheads.io](https://bigheads.io/) - Randomly Generated Characters for Your Apps & Games.
-   [outline.com](https://outline.com/) - You give it an article link and it will remove all adverts and tracking and format it in a really nice clean readable way. Also gets past most paywalls.

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# Issue: #1 Rolling it out...

July 5th, 2020

### 📌 Short Updates

-   [What's New In DevTools in Chrome 85](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/06/devtools) - includes Lighthouse 6.0 updates.
-   [Safari 14](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-14-beta-release-notes) is now available with Safari Web Extensions support for macOS.
-   [What's New for Web Developers in Safari & WebKit](https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10663/) - latest features and improvements announced at WWDC for Safari and WebKit. #Video
-   [New in Firefox 78](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/06/new-in-firefox-78/) - DevTools improvements and platform updates.
-   [The 18th beta of Vue 3.0](https://github.com/vuejs/rfcs/issues/183) is out.
-   [Version 10](https://blog.angular.io/version-10-of-angular-now-available-78960babd41) of Angular released.
-   [Node 14.5](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v14.5.0/) is out. This version introduces an new experimental API `EventTarget`
-   [Bootstrap 5](https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2020/06/16/bootstrap-5-alpha/) alpha is now available.
-   [ECMAScript proposal:private static methods and accessors in classes](https://2ality.com/2020/06/private-static-methods-accessors-in-classes.html) - This post explains private static methods and accessors in classes.
-   GitHub rolled out a new design for repo pages - [Hacker News rant](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23617229).

### 🗞 News & Articles

-   [Exploring the Web Speech API](https://www.voorhoede.nl/en/blog/exploring-the-web-speech-api/) - Experimenting with voice on the web using the Web Speech Synthesis and Recognition API.
-   Github’s [Super Linter](https://github.blog/2020-06-18-introducing-github-super-linter-one-linter-to-rule-them-all/) - One linter to rule them all.
-   Improving HTTP with [structured header fields](https://www.fastly.com/blog/improve-http-structured-headers)
-   [Using the Chrome UX Report API](https://web.dev/chrome-ux-report-api/) - get easy, RESTful access to real-user experience data across millions of websites.
-   [History of search engines](https://carlhendy.com/history-of-search-engines/#ask) - A comprehensive take on history of search engines.
-   In a tweet thread talking about [“If you were given the chance to rename JavaScript, what would you call it?”](https://twitter.com/runhappylife/status/1278360272231641088), Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript, replied that he would prefer calling JavaScript as “JS” - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1278803332287483904)

### 🧩 Conference Recaps

-   [web.dev LIVE](https://web.dev/live/)- Google’s three-day digital event wrapped up on 2nd July covering topics such as Web Vitals, PWAs, Privacy and Security as well as the new updates coming to developer tools. Videos: [Day 1](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYkxOF6rcIDC0-BiwSL52yQ0n9rNozaF) [Day 2](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYkxOF6rcIBhuGsbO6t8-OBE5-fVPe7K) [Day 3](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYkxOF6rcIDJHOcBzho38p6WTn3vESvQ)

-   [OpenJS World 2020](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/openjs-world/), first-ever virtual OpenJS World 2020 conference by The Linux Foundation, wrapped up last month covering huge spectrum of topics related to JS ecosystem. Videos: [All](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyspMSh4XhLP-mqulUMcaqTbLo-ZJxSX5)[Speakers and Slides]: (https://openjsworld2020.sched.com/overview/subject/Yes)

### 🎟 Upcoming Conferences and events

-   [ForwardJS](https://forwardjs.com/sanfrancisco/) - Online Event on July 20-24. Follow [@forwardJS](https://twitter.com/forwardjs)
-   [Angular NL Conference](https://www.angularnl.com/) - Online Event on July 24. Follow [@angularnl](https://twitter.com/angularnl)
-   [Create: Front-end](https://createfrontenddevelopers.splashthat.com/) - Online Event on July 29.

### 📺 Blast from the past

-   [What the heck is the event loop anyway?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ) By Philip Roberts - Talk in JSConf EU 2014 is a gem of a talk about event loops. It covers the essentials to understand main thread for JS.
-   [How do Promises Work?](https://robotlolita.me/articles/2015/how-do-promises-work/) - What promises are, what problem they solve, and how they're implemented (in JavaScript and in theory).



### 🎨 Meanwhile on the web 

-   [Slack theme](https://github.com/slack-theme/visual-studio-code) for VS Code!
-   [TitleRun](https://titlerun.xyz/) - A game to be played in Title Bar of Browser tab.

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