JSter #10 - News of November, part 1

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                November 15, 2013

            JSter #10 - News of November, part 1

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There’s no script like JavaScript.
React Finland (https://react-finland.fi/) (end of April 2018) ticket sales are getting closer, so remember to tune in to get one if you want to visit this northern country.
I split my webpack book into two books (https://survivejs.com/blog/survivejs-webpack-and-maintenance/) recently. You can preview the maintenance book (https://survivejs.com/maintenance/) online to get a better idea of the new one. The book lists a large number of good practices and helps you to improve your JavaScript projects.
** Libraries

PolymerLabs/lit-html (https://github.com/PolymerLabs/lit-html) - HTML template literals in JavaScript.
deck.gl (https://uber.github.io/deck.gl/#/) - Large-scale WebGL-powered data visualization.
TickTock JS (https://yuschick.github.io/TickTock/) - Making digital time mechanical.
Frappe Charts (https://frappe.github.io/charts/) - GitHub-inspired simple and modern charts for the web with zero dependencies.
Server.js (https://serverjs.io/) - Express alternative for Node.js.
Luxon (https://moment.github.io/luxon/) - A powerful, modern, and friendly wrapper for Javascript dates and times.
Solidarity (https://shift.infinite.red/solidarity-the-cli-for-developer-sanity-672fa81b98e9) - Add Solidarity to your project for multi-machine peace of mind.

** Frameworks

AngularJS 5.0 (https://blog.angular.io/version-5-0-0-of-angular-now-available-37e414935ced)

** CSS

Emotion 8 (https://medium.com/@tkh44/emotion-8-9f892346d0af) - The popular CSS-in-JS solution has gained support for source maps and more.
rofrischmann/elodin (https://github.com/rofrischmann/elodin) - Quality and Optimisation tools for CSS in JavaScript

** Articles

The Cost Of JavaScript by Addy Osmani (https://medium.com/dev-channel/the-cost-of-javascript-84009f51e99e)
Go beyond console.log with the Firefox Debugger â Mozilla Hacks â the Web developer blog (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/go-beyond-console-log-with-the-firefox-debugger/)
Back to the future with Proxy (https://medium.com/@gooddev.sergey/back-to-the-future-with-proxy-62f835f68c8d)
Slaying a UI Antipattern in React (https://medium.com/javascript-inside/slaying-a-ui-antipattern-in-react-64a3b98242c)

** Techniques

Into the Great Unknown - Migrating from Mocha to Jest (https://ebaytech.berlin/into-the-great-unknown-migrating-from-mocha-to-jest-3baced083c7e)
Fast and precise type checking for JavaScript (https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/11/08/fast-and-precise-type-checking-for-javascript/)
A model for reasoning about JavaScript Promises (https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/11/10/a-model-for-reasoning-about-javascript-promises/)
Writing JavaScript with accessibility in mind (https://medium.com/@matuzo/writing-javascript-with-accessibility-in-mind-a1f6a5f467b9)

** Interviews

react-lite - Implementation of React optimized for small size - Interview with Jade (https://survivejs.com/blog/react-lite-interview/)

** Slides

React - Quo Vadis? (https://presentations.survivejs.com/react-quo-vadis/) - Current state of React and where it’s going.

** Tools

Cheerp 2.0RC1 (http://blog.leaningtech.com/2017/11/cheerp-c-to-webassembly-20rc1-released.html) - C/C++ to WebAssembly, mixed JavaScript/Wasm output, 30-90% smaller than Emscripten.
subfont (https://www.npmjs.com/package/subfont) - A command line tool to statically analyse your page in order to generate the most optimal web font subsets, then inject them into your page.

** Demos

Field Play (https://anvaka.github.io/fieldplay/) - Play with maths in a field simulation.

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