December 15, 2013

Monthly JSter #12 - News of December

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JavaScript, the hipster certified programming language.

It’s that time of the month again. npm almost had a disaster in their hands as a worm got through to the registry through a popular package. Enabling two-factor authentication for npm (https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/using-two-factor-authentication) is recommended.

** Libraries

• TensorFlow.js (https://js.tensorflow.org/) - A JavaScript library for training and deploying ML models in the browser and on Node.js.
• Fluture (https://github.com/fluture-js/Fluture) - FantasyLand compliant (monadic) alternative to Promises.
• Luxon (https://moment.github.io/luxon/) - A powerful, modern, and friendly wrapper for Javascript dates and times.

** Articles

• A Bloatless Web (https://itnext.io/a-bloatless-web-d4f811c7991b) - How to deal with browser bloat? Are there better ways? Spoiler: yes there are.
• Making calls to WebAssembly fast and implementing anyref (https://blog.benj.me/2018/07/04/mozilla-2018-faster-calls-and-anyref/) - WebAssembly/JavaScript interop is getting fast.

** Utilities

• streamich/jsx-plus-plus (https://github.com/streamich/jsx-plus-plus) - What if JSX could be made better?
• lukeed/dynamic-import-ponyfill (https://github.com/lukeed/dynamic-import-ponyfill) - Ponyfill import() in the browser.

** Tools

• ry/deno (https://github.com/ry/deno) - A secure TypeScript runtime on V8.
• pnpm version 2 is out! (https://medium.com/pnpm/pnpm-version-2-is-out-a015268254d5) - pnpm, a npm client alternative, has reached a new major version. It maintains each package version only once on your computer making it both fast and space conserving.
• Vue Design System (https://vueds.com/) - Design systems for Vue.js.
• JSUI (https://github.com/kitze/JSUI) - A graphical application for visualizing your project and maintaining it.

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