Changelog

KBall, on Vue's ⭐️ count surpassing React's: Don't get me wrong, I love Vue - I've been using it far more than React recently - but github stars are more of a measure of the "hipness" of a project than its actual use. He backs that up by citing the preposterously low number of stars 'earned' by the Apache web server, which powers ~38% of websites. What is a useful metric, then? There is no perfect measure - there are many many ways to install and use any of these projects - but NPM has become the de facto standard for installing JavaScript packages. If we look at download statistics for the core package of each of these frameworks - the vue package and the react package, that should give us a reasonable proxy for actual use. Click through for his detailed findings, but the big takeaway is right there 👆 in the headline.

The async nature of the web has its pros and cons. One of the cons is that it's much harder to have truly shared experiences around video content. Vynchronize aims to scratch that con off the list.

Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Jerod Santo talk about their debugging methods, the cool things that JavaScript can do but isn't talked about much, and their opinions on Git history.

This looks really good: 🚀 Fetch & XHR Support ⚡️️ Simple, Powerful, & Intuitive API 💎 First Class Mocha & QUnit Test Helpers 🔥 Intercept, Pass-Through, and Attach Events 📼 Record to Disk or Local Storage ⏱ Slow Down or Speed Up Time

Docz' high-level principles give you an idea of what they're all about: Zero config and easy. No unnecessary build steps with confusing setups. Blazing fast. Always use the fastest things to build our tools. Easy to customize. Create something that will be easy to use and customize. MDX Based. Have the best standard to write documents. Pluggable. Plugins are the best choice when you need to be custom and flexible. Watch the demo video on the homepage to see just how nice this tool is to use.

Big week! KBall, Nick, and JBall (nooch) dive deep in to the 2018 Node.js user survey results. What does it all mean?! They also review Ryan Dahl's "10" regrets about Node and sound off on Microsoft's assimilatio... err... acquisition of GitHub.

Does the fact that sessionStorage/localStorage is shared across tabs have you down? Don't worry, here's a strange but widely supported way to store 640kb of object data in a page's navigation state. Just wow. This little hack could go down in his·to·ry. (Also that's how its name is pronounced.)

MagiCLI was built to expand the use of npm modules. When all modules can be executed via CLI, npm becomes a source for anyone who wants to find a solution ti be run from a terminal and also for those who would like to call an existing solution written in Node.js from a program written in another language. For even more context, check out the intro post on Hacker Noon.

Sara Vieira is easily one of the most entertaining people we've ever had on this show. She has been working with React over the past few years and has recently been traveling around Europe and giving free workshops on React in London and at React Finland.

Tusk is an unofficial, featureful, open source, community-driven, free Evernote app used by people in more than 130 countries.

Suz Hinton, Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball, and Christopher Hiller talk about machine learning, the ethics surrounding it, why you would use JavaScript with it, and much more.

Start calls itself functional (in all senses), fast (by running tasks in parallel), and shareable (via publishable packages). Okay, that's enough parentheses (for now).

Sophie Alpert is a core contributor to React and is currently the engineering manager for the React team at Facebook. She has been contributing to React for over 3 years now, making her first contributions while she was working as an engineer at Khan Academy.

The repo currently hosts 10 data structures and dozens of algorithms. Each implemenation is accompznied by a README with explanations and links for diving even deeper. Need a place to start? How about the good ole' Bubble Sort.

Kevin Ball, Alex Sexton, Nick Nisi, and Christopher Hiller talk all things tooling. Build tooling, linting, formatting, IDEs, and a small tangent on Vim.

A set of common UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look. These can be used for wireframes, mockups, or just the fun hand-drawn look. Check out the showcase to see all of the components available.

Well, Gatsby is officially a startup! They just announced the formation of Gatsby Inc. and have raised a $3.8M seed round to fund the effort. Wow, congrats Kyle and team. Kyle Matthews writes on the Gatsby blog: I’m thrilled to announce the formation of Gatsby Inc. Based on the open source project Gatsby I founded, Gatsby the company will make feature-rich and blazing-fast websites easier to build and run. What is Gatsby? Gatsby is... a blazing fast static site generator for React.js a powerful and flexible modern website framework that simplifies every step of starting, developing and running websites helps you leverage open source innovations in the React, NPM, and Gatsby communities for your web projects lets you pull data into pages from WordPress, Drupal, Contentful, markdown—and any other data source you can imagine compiles and optimizes your site’s code to make your sites lightning fast—even on mobile

mostly's purpose is to serve as a lightweight, easy-to-comprehend starting point, with a focus on providing a great developer experience while helping you get high quality and maintainable web applications deployed rapidly. It uses Express for the server and React for the client. Worth a look if you're starting up a new web project. I dig this point about it: Nothing is hidden, nothing is magical, and all of the "plumbing" is accessible and simple.

a collection of working, practical examples of using service workers in modern web sites. From caching strategies, to web push, to going offline and optimizing performance; this cookbook is chocked full of great recipes. There's also a comments section at the bottom of each recipe where people are answer the question, "Has it been useful?" Now that's useful!

Vuido makes it possible to create lightweight, native desktop applications using Vue.js. Application using Vuido can run on Windows, OS X and Linux, using native GUI components, and don't require Electron. Emphasis added. Vuido uses libui under the hood to drive its cross-platform GUI components.

Ives van Hoorne is the creator of Codesandbox; an online code editor written completely in React. Although Codesandbox is written in React, it can be used to build applications for any front-end framework.

Hackable and configurable to the core, signale can be used for logging purposes, status reporting, as well as for handling the output rendering process of other node modules and applications.

Jerod Santo, Nick Nisi, and Christopher Hiller talk about what TypeScript is and why we should care, who's using TypeScript, and thoughts on developer titles.

Big news from our friends at Graphcool, now Prisma. Today, we have some very exciting news to share: We've raised a $4.5 million seed round led by Kleiner Perkins and are rebranding to Prisma (from Graphcool). In this post we'd like to share our thoughts on Prisma today and our plans for the future. If you haven't yet, check out The Changelog #297: Prisma and the GraphQL data layer.

Johannes Schickling, co-founder and CEO of Prisma, joined the show to catch us up on all things GraphQL — the tech, the possibilities, the community, how Prisma turns your database into a GraphQL API, their new business direction, Prisma Cloud, open source vs enterprise, and the upcoming GraphQL Europe in Berlin on June 15th.