Monthly JSter #15 - News of January (part 2)

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                February 1, 2014

            Monthly JSter #15 - News of January (part 2)

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It’s 2020 and we’re still coding JavaScript.
The first React Finland mini-conference (https://react-finland.fi/blog/rf-2020-online-mini-conf-vol-1-recap/) took place 28th of May. I’ve included the videos from the session in the link and it also includes the QAs and the end panel.
The next mini-conf is going to be about state management and it’s going to happen 27th of August.
** Libraries

nikersify/pico (https://github.com/nikersify/pico) - Take browser screenshots in Javascript
dfahlander/Dexie.js (https://github.com/dfahlander/Dexie.js) - A Minimalistic Wrapper for IndexedDB
jncraton/box-line-text (https://github.com/jncraton/box-line-text) - Simple virtual whiteboarding
imazen/imageflow (https://github.com/imazen/imageflow) - High-performance image manipulation for web servers. Includes imageflow_server, imageflow_tool, and libimageflow
better-logging (https://www.npmjs.com/package/better-logging) - An alternative logger for JavaScript
Recoil (https://recoiljs.org/) - A state management library for React
manassarpatwar/Self-driving-AI (https://github.com/manassarpatwar/Self-driving-AI) - Self driving cars using NEAT

** Frameworks

Blitz.js (https://blitzjs.com/) - Rails-like framework for monolithic, full-stack React apps â built on Next.js
Pixelbox.js (https://pixwlk.itch.io/pixelbox) - Create 2D games in JavaScript

** Tools

aholachek/bundle-wizard (https://github.com/aholachek/bundle-wizard) - Magically easy insight into the JavaScript loaded by a web app
Lerna Update Wizard (https://www.npmjs.com/package/lerna-update-wizard) - Command line interface for simplifying the process of bulk updating dependencies across multiple Lerna or Yarn Workspace packages.
Preconstruct (https://preconstruct.tools/) - Dev and build your code painlessly in monorepos
Excalidraw (https://excalidraw.com/) - Simple collaborative drawing on the web
@yarnpkg/plugin-typescript (https://yarnpkg.com/api/modules/plugin_typescript.html) - This plugin automatically adds @types/ packages into your dependencies when you add a package that doesn’t include its own types.
atlassian/changesets (https://github.com/atlassian/changesets) - Changesets automate changelog generation
@manypkg/get-packages (https://github.com/Thinkmill/manypkg/tree/master/packages/get-packages) - A simple utility to get the packages from a monorepo, whether they’re using Yarn, Bolt or pnpm
ESLint v7.0.0 released (https://eslint.org/blog/2020/05/eslint-v7.0.0-released)
stefanjudis/netlify-menubar (https://github.com/stefanjudis/netlify-menubar) - Netlify menubar app to receive build information or trigger new builds

** CSS

Animate.css (https://animate.style/) - Just-add-water CSS animations
98.css (https://jdan.github.io/98.css/) - CSS like it’s 1998
@stitches/css (https://www.npmjs.com/package/@stitches/css) - Atomic css-in-js

** Resources

Weekly News for Busy Web Devs (https://programmingdigest.net/?utm_source=jster) - Programming Digest is a weekly curated newsletter with the five most interesting stories in programming ð©âð», data ð¾, and tech ð±ï¸.

** Tutorials

How to Use Workbox With Next.js (https://medium.com/better-programming/using-workbox-with-next-js-a-step-towards-progressive-web-apps-a3f985f5f864)
Loading web pages fast on a $20 feature phone (https://dev.to/addyosmani/loading-web-pages-fast-on-a-20-feature-phone-8h6)
How to detect if an object has been garbage collected in Javascript (http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=148)
HTML DOM (https://htmldom.dev/) - How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

** Articles

AMP + Web Vitals (https://blog.amp.dev/2020/05/06/amp-web-vitals-a-better-web-together/) â a better web, together
The Cost of Javascript Frameworks (https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2020-04-21-the-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/)
Good, Fast, Cheap – pick any two. (http://www.tuitivegroup.com/good-fast-cheap/)

** Languages

Hegel (https://hegel.js.org/) - An advanced static type checker
Node.js version 14 is available now (https://medium.com/@nodejs/node-js-version-14-available-now-8170d384567e)
Deno, a Node.js alternative, has reached 1.0 (https://deno.land/v1)

** Testing

testonjs/teston (https://github.com/testonjs/teston) - Test runner similar to tape, but with ES6 module support, simpler subtest syntax and nice indentation

** GraphQL

GraphQL Nexus (https://nexus.js.org/) - Declarative, Code-First GraphQL Schemas for JavaScript/TypeScript
Relay: the GraphQL client that wants to do the dirty work for you (https://dev.to/zth/relay-the-graphql-client-that-wants-to-do-the-dirty-work-for-you-55kd)

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