November 15, 2013

JSter #10 - News of November, part 1

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One JavaScript library too far.

My newest book about maintenance (https://github.com/survivejs/maintenance-book) keeps progressing steadily and is close to its first release. You can already peruse the initial contents online!

** Libraries

• bvaughn/js-worker-search (https://github.com/bvaughn/js-worker-search) - JavaScript client-side search API with web-worker support.
• alvarcarto/url-to-pdf-api (https://github.com/alvarcarto/url-to-pdf-api) - Self-hosted service for rendering HTML to PDF.
• DIO (https://dio.js.org/) - Develop light, declarative UIs using JavaScript.
• Micromodal.js (https://micromodal.now.sh/) - Micromodal.js is a lightweight, configurable and a11y-enabled modal library written in pure JavaScript.
• unfetch (https://www.npmjs.com/package/unfetch) - Tiny 500b fetch “barely-polyfill”.

** Articles

• Observables and Finnish Notation (https://medium.com/@benlesh/observables-and-finnish-notation-df8356ed1c9b) - Not only Hungarians have a notation. Now Finns have one too.
• JavaScript’s Promise Leaks Memory (https://alexn.org/blog/2017/10/11/javascript-promise-leaks-memory.html)
• Business logic as a data structure (https://www.jsblog.io/articles/christianalfoni/business_logic_as_a_data_structure)
• Mikeal has seen the future, it’s full of HTML (https://medium.com/@mikeal/ive-seen-the-future-it-s-full-of-html-2577246f2210)

** Techniques

• Unit Testing Vue.js Components with the Official Vue Testing Tools and Jest (https://alexjoverm.github.io/series/Unit-Testing-Vue-js-Components-with-the-Official-Vue-Testing-Tools-and-Jest/)
• Asynchronous stack traces: why await beats .then() (https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/async-stack-traces)

** Games

• Snakesilk game engine (https://github.com/snakesilk/snakesilk-engine)

** Tools

• Project Glimpse (http://node.getglimpse.com/) - Full-stack Node.js web diagnostics.
• Workbox (https://workboxjs.org/) - JavaScript Libraries for Progressive Web Apps.
• webpack v3.7.0 (https://github.com/webpack/webpack/releases/tag/v3.7.0)
• How codesandbox makes packages work in the browser; announcing the new packager (https://hackernoon.com/how-we-make-npm-packages-work-in-the-browser-announcing-the-new-packager-6ce16aa4cee6)

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