Biweekly JSter #86 - Libraries and then some

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                January 19, 2017

            Biweekly JSter #86 - Libraries and then some

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JavaScript - Because you are worth it.
It has been busy two weeks again. Webpack 2 reached a final version (https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-2-2-the-final-release-76c3d43bf144) . This also gave me a good excuse to push a new version of my webpack book out there (http://survivejs.com/blog/survivejs-webpack-160/) . It’s getting closer and closer to paper and the end(?) is in sight.
** Libraries

Bunyan (https://github.com/trentm/node-bunyan) - A logger for Node.
mocha needs your help (https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/blob/master/README.md)
Gothdo/range (https://github.com/Gothdo/range) - A JavaScript implementation of the Python’s range() function
mitt (https://www.npmjs.com/package/mitt) - A tiny event emitter, pubsub thinger.
lake.js (http://alligatr.co.uk/lake.js/) - Well, make a lake in JavaScript. Handy, eh?
switzerland (https://github.com/wildhoney/switzerland) - Neutral web components.
Identicon.js (https://rawgit.com/stewartlord/identicon.js/master/demo.html) - Identicons like in GitHub profiles of lazy people.
Voca: The JavaScript string library (https://vocajs.com/)
partial.lenses (https://www.npmjs.com/package/partial.lenses) - Yup. Just what it says in the label.
date-fns (https://date-fns.org/) - Tired of moment? This one is for you.
Inferno (https://infernojs.org/) - Faster than React with a familiar API. What’s not to like?

** Articles

A Taste from Angular 4 (https://netbasal.com/a-taste-from-angular-version-4-50be1c4f3550)
Firebase: the great, the meh, and the ugly (https://medium.com/@Pier/firebase-the-great-the-meh-and-the-ugly-a07252fbcf15)
What should be in a Single Page Application? (https://medium.com/@maurice.de.beijer/what-should-be-in-a-single-page-application-9bbbf40c3862)
Of Classes and Arrow Functions (https://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/of-classes-and-arrow-functions-a-cautionary-tale/) - A horror story.

** Security

Regular Expression Denial of Service and Catastrophic Backtracking (https://snyk.io/blog/redos-and-catastrophic-backtracking/)

** Tutorials

How to create an online Siri-like personal assistant (https://blog.sambego.be/how-to-create-an-online-siri-like-personal-assistant/)
Use the amazing D3 library to animate a path on a Leaflet map (http://zevross.com/blog/2014/09/30/use-the-amazing-d3-library-to-animate-a-path-on-a-leaflet-map/)

** Techniques

11 Simple npm Tricks That Will Knock Your Wombat Socks Off (https://nodesource.com/blog/eleven-npm-tricks-that-will-knock-your-wombat-socks-off)
10 things a rando learned making the fastest site in the world (https://hackernoon.com/10-things-i-learned-making-the-fastest-site-in-the-world-18a0e1cdf4a7)
Measuring performance in JavaScript (http://code.fitness/post/2017/01/js-perf-measurement.html)

** Interviews

isomorphic-webpack interview with Gajus Kuizinas (http://survivejs.com/blog/isomorphic-webpack-interview/)

** Resources

webcomponents.org (https://www.webcomponents.org/launch-announcement) - New element registry.
CSS Puns & CSS Jokes (http://saijogeorge.com/css-puns/)

** Games

Incheon (http://incheon.gg/) - Online JavaScript game fun with open source.

** Tools

RxJS Diagrams (http://rxjs-diagrams.com/)
A Prettier JavaScript Formatter (http://jlongster.com/A-Prettier-Formatter)
InterlockJS (http://interlockjs.com/) - Unify your build, whatever that means. Find out.

** Demos

Pluto isn’t that special, after all (http://bl.ocks.org/AntonLecock/e347a9aab4808a9efaa8643662267522)
the genetic code (http://benfry.com/aasd/)

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