Changelog

Jerod, Nick, KBall, and Chris pre-party for JSConf by testing out some brand new segment ideas: Story of the Week, What the WHAT... WG, and Protip Time. What do you think of these segments? Like 'em? Love 'em? Not sure why we even? Please let us know!

Copy/paste the code in this repo's README into your browser's address bar and you end up with a super minimal CodePen-style editor. Pretty cool, and a bit crazy that you can get so much functionality with just 400 bytes of code...

Good news — the next generation of Vue CLI, the standard build toolchain for Vue applications, is here. Evan You writes: Vue CLI 3 is a completely different beast from its previous version. The goal of the rewrite is two-fold: Reduce configuration fatigue of modern frontend tooling, especially when mixing multiple tools together; Incorporate best practices in the toolchain as much as possible so it becomes the default for any Vue app. This means that any Vue CLI 3 project comes with out-of-the-box support most of today's preferred ways to build and ship applications.

Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he's using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John's feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.

Tanner Villarete asked himself, "How far can JavaScript take us?" Then answered: Turns out, pretty dang far. This web app was my attempt at mimicking Apple's iOS music app, and I think I've come pretty close! I have to admit, he did a pretty good job. The frontend is built on React and Redux. The backend? A Laravel-based API running on a Raspberry Pi! Here's the live demo, but be nice because Raspberry Pi.

tom 🐶 is a backoffice as service oriented to do things that you want to do, like: Create and update users via Stripe Associate your users with a subscription plan Send transactional notification via email, Slack, or Telegram Here's a demo of tom in action.

Jerod, Nick, and Chris talk with Jeff Lembeck about his tweets, the people behind npm, the need for empathy, and things they're excited about.

Why wretch? Because having to write a second callback to process a response body feels awkward. Because manually checking and throwing every request error code is tedious. Because sending a json object should be easy. Because configuration should not rhyme with repetition. The readme has examples of each of these improvements in action. Love it!

Adam and Jerod catch up with Suz about her presentation at OSCON, some cool stuff she's doing at her house, and more.

Suz, Safia, and Kball get together to talk about accessibility; what does it mean, why should we care, and what tools and resources can we use to better educate ourselves, and improve our work.

A lot of people wanted Steve Klabnik to elaborate on this from a recent post on WebAssembly... Some have compared WebAssembly to Java applets; in some ways, they’re very right, but in some ways, they’re very wrong. Eventually I’ll write a post about the wrong, but for now, the right: in some sense, WebAssembly is a different way of accomplishing what the JVM set out to do: it’s a common virtual machine that can be used to build very cross-platform software. Here's a great take away if all you want is a tldr... Java Applets and Flash were security nightmares. WebAssembly, on the other hand, piggybacks on the JavaScript VM. All of the effort going into creating its sandbox also applies to Wasm.

It took years! We’re finally finished removing jQuery from GitHub.com's frontend. What did we replace it with? No framework whatsoever... This is a long thread with some great conversations and questions.

We talk with Nader Dabit, Developer Advocate for Amazon Web Services, about the role of DevRel and what's involved in this "dream job", frontend and mobile developers using AWS Amplify to build cloud-enabled applications, how GraphQL, React, and others fit in, and the direction of React Native.

Get instant GraphQL APIs on any PostgreSQL database. We are super thrilled to announce the launch of the Hasura GraphQL Engine, an open source product that gives you instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres. You can try it out here — it will take exactly 30 seconds to deploy to Heroku’s free tier (yes — we counted 😀). Check out the open source repo on GitHub.

Learn about the fundamentals of JavaScript to ease your learning/usage of React. After all my teachings about React, be it online for a larger audience or on-site for companies transitioning to web development and React, I always come to the conclusion that React is all about JavaScript. The following walkthrough is my attempt giving you an almost extensive yet concise list about all the different JavaScript functionalities to complement your React application.

Usually, we don’t need to know the internals of an engine which runs our code. The browser vendors invest heavily in making the engines run code very fast. Great! Let the others do the heavy lifting. Why bother worrying about how the engines work? Good question. Read the article to find out why.

Jordan Eldredge has been working hard to make Webamp even more rad: Take a trip down memory lane with this faithful WebGL port of MilkDrop, the iconic music Winamp visualizer. Check it out in Chrome and Firefox. What should you listen to while the visualizer does its thing? Our episode all about Webamp, of course. 🤓

Kball and Feross talk with Shelley Vohr and Jeremy Apthorp about what Electron is, why to use it, and what comes next for the platform.

Benjamin Bouvier, Compiler Engineer at Mozilla, writes about speeding up calls from JS to Wasm in Firefox. If we want more WebAssembly (wasm) adoption, there shouldn't be a big costly barrier between the two universes. That is, calls from one world to the other should be fast. For a very long time, calls from JS to asm.js/WebAssembly have been quite slow in Firefox. In fact, we didn't optimize them at all. He goes on to say... Starting with Firefox 60, the JIT compiler makes no distinctions between calling a JavaScript function or a WebAssembly function, meaning it uses the same call optimizations for both kinds of function. Benjamin continues through several more bugs mentioned on the Bugzilla bug board with fixes to speed up calls from JS to Wasm in Firefox.

Jerod, Nick, and KBall shake off their July 4th malaise by diving deep in to ES6 Proxies, wondering how best to share components across projects, and giving their younger selves advice. Also: shout outs!

Chris Manson: Another incremental release of EmberJS but there are some interesting nuggets in there. A major addition to the declarative templating system, improvements to polymorphic relationship lazy loading in Ember Data and a big improvement to testing helpers 🎉 The Energizer Bunny of front-end frameworks keeps going and going...

I've been closely watching CodeSandbox and have been thoroughly impressed with the work Ives van Hoorne and the 75+ contributors have put into this online code editor for ... React, Preact, Vue, and more. I've been thinking about getting Ives on Founders Talk to talk about the business model behind CodeSandbox. It seems to have this interesting self baked, pay what you want, Patron model to cover the expenses of CodeSandbox. Most of the features are free with limits, and being a "Patron" lifts those limits + extra features, and supports the costs and development efforts.

A free ebook by Flavio Copes. Here's the skinny: After spending a lot of time diving into Vue, in preparation for a Vue online course I'm building, I created this free resource that contains a lot of material to help anyone go from zero Vue knowledge to having a pretty good overview of this popular JavaScript frontend framework. The book's content is behind a newsletter signup. That's the price of free, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

Kevin Ball and Suz Hinton talk with Jay Phelps about WebAssembly; what it is, how to use it, and how some are using it already.

Add git-authors-cli to your release process and never worry about updating the authors list again.