Issue: #6
September 15th, 2020
📌 Short Updates
- AVIF has landed - In-depth introduction to AVIF by Jake Archibald
- Deno 1.3.2 Released which is now using TypeScript 4.0
- Underscore.js 1.11.0 - The Long Standing Functional Helper Library Goes Modular
- How to Use AVIF - The New Next-Gen Image Compression Format
- WCAG 2.2 Overview - A working draft of version 2.2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Well-known URL for changing passwords - By redirecting requests to a well-known URL for password changes, you can let users update their passwords easier than before.
- Bootstrap Icons - For the first time ever, Bootstrap has its own icon library.
🗞 Articles and Projects
- Mastering Hard Parts of JavaScript - 17 Part Series to mastering the monstrous JavaScript.
- JavaScript Engines: An Overview - Understand the basics of a JavaScript Engine
- JavaScript for Data Science - Book by Maya Gans, Toby Hodges, and Greg Wilson, focussing on JavaScript and Data Science.
- DevTools architecture refresh: Migrating to JavaScript 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 - A Different Approach for Micro Frontends
- How Fast Should Your Site Load? - The answer shouldn’t be a fixed number
- Creating Extensions for Visual Studio Code - A Complete Guide on creating VSCode Extension
- Dot 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 - Ongoing Online event on September 14-18, 2020. Follow @cityjsconf. Videos - Day 1, Day 2
- Vue.js Global - Online Event on September 17-18, 2020. Follow @vuejsamsterdam
- RxJS Live! London - Online Event on September 17-18, 2020 focussed around RxJS. Follow @rxjslive
- Vue.js Global - Online Event on September 17-18, 2020. Follow @vuejsamsterdam
- FEM TECH - Online event on September 25, 2020. Follow @femtechconf
- enterJS - Online event on September 29 - October 1, 2020. Follow @enterjsconf
📺 Blast from the past
- A sneak peek into super optimized code in JS frameworks - 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 - 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 - Preview, Edit & Generate Meta Tags for Social Platforms
- Drift is a free app that showcases the sights and sounds of beautiful locations around the world.
- Apple II emulator - built in JavaScript! Check COde
“Good software, like good wine, takes time.” - Joel Spolsky
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