KBall, Jerod, and Divya dig deep into how we learn. We look into how to choose what to learn, techniques for learning, and a set of respective resources.

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Turns out one of our asset caching best practices (content hashes in filenames + far-future expiry) has a serious flaws in it: In practice, changes to one of your source files almost always invalidates more than one of your output files—and this happens because you’ve added revision hashes to your filenames. Philip goes on to explain why this happens and then proposes 3 possible solutions. Good stuff 👌

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Liran Tal: I wrote this tiny module thing that allows you to quickly check if a website is running vulnerable JS libs straight from the terminal. You’d be surprised how many websites are still running old and vulnerable versions of jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular and others. Use it responsibly ;-)

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Vue-next is in “pre-alpha” condition, but the team has achieved most of the architectural goals and new features planned, so the source is now public on GitHub. No word yet on when they expect Vue 3 to be officially released, but you can at least dig in to what they’ve got so far!

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What if you could have an Electron-like app framework without the Chromium dependency and resulting performance woes? Well, now you can. NodeGui is a Qt5-powered, cross-platform, native app GUI framework for JavaScript with CSS-like styling. In this episode, Jerod and Nick sit down with Atul –author of NodeGUI and NodeGUI React– to learn about this exciting framework. We ask him a zillion and one questions about it.

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Every day, the moat around React gets bigger, deeper, and filled with more 🐊🐊s

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In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Valeri Karpov. Val has been the solo maintainer of Mongoose since 2014. This episode with Val continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.

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The Changelog team will have a BIG presence at All Things Open in October. To celebrate, we’re giving away FREE tickets!

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When talking about the Console API, newbies usually use only some functions like 👌console.log(), ⚠️ console.warn(), or ❌ console.error() to debug their application, while often there are many other methods which can perfectly implement our requirements and improve debugging efficiency. Guilty! ✋ This article is made to expose some of the most interesting console methods with related examples that I use while teaching at Codeworks. So let’s see a list of the 8 best functions from the Console module! I have used console.table a few times (totally rad), but there’s plenty of functions here that I haven’t been using (and definitely should be).

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Special guest Nick O’Leary joins us this episode to chat about the Node-RED project, how it started, and the fascinating uses cases for it out in the wild. We go into some of the technical challenges behind designing easy to use interfaces for hardware, and ask Nick what the future of Node-RED looks like.

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Congrats @KyleMathews and team, wow. Why the excitement and growth? The answer is simple. Gatsby was founded around a big idea, and that idea is starting to go mainstream. We believe that the basic architecture of websites is being reinvented. The dominant web architecture, the LAMP stack, was founded at the dawn of the web before paradigm-shifting technologies were invented, like virtual machines, AWS, smartphones, Git, Node/NPM, React, and Serverless—elements of modern engineering we now take for granted. For those interested in the deeper backstory on the formation of Gatsby, check out Founders Talk #59 with Kyle Mathews (the creator of Gatsby).

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Measure it so you can improve it, but how? …performance metrics are surprisingly challenging to get right. On the one hand, it is hard to design metrics that accurately represent the user experience. On the other hand, it is difficult to make metrics that are usefully precise. As a result, many teams cannot trust their performance data. Even with accurate and precise metrics, the data is hard to use. How do we define “fast”? How do we balance speed and consistency? How do we quickly find regressions or see the impact of optimizations?

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The gang gets together to catch you up on what’s new & noteworthy in the community. Then we share a few things we’ve learned recently in our first-ever “Today I Learned” segment. Finally, we wrap it up with things we’re excited about.

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Emoji Button provides search, skin tone variations, and recently used emojis… all with no framework dependency. Play with the demo right here.

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KBall, Divya, Feross, and Jerod get together to discuss tips and tricks for communicating with other coders, project stakeholders, and users.

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A brief discussion of the most essential SEO tags followed by framework-based SEO considerations.

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This episode is all about conferences and there is a lot to talk about! Why even go? What makes a conference worth it? How can you get the most of the experience? Is speaking worth all the effort? How can you make your talk amazing? How can you get your talk selected? We chime in on all of these questions plus more.

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This provides easy access to the Gamepad API, which I didn’t even know was a thing. The API is callback-style: gameControl.on('connect', function(gamepad) { gamepad.on('up', moveCharacterUp); });

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Chris Coyier can’t help but chime in after listening to our recent debate episode of JS Party. I enjoyed all the stumbling around the terminology of “web apps” and “web sites” (web things!). This is such a weird one. It’s so easy to picture the difference in your head: it’s like facebook versus a blog! But when you start trying to define it exactly, it gets really murky really quickly and the distinction loses any value, if it had any to start with. Here’s more on that. Chris has a lot of great insights here. Whether you agree or disagree, I think we can all get on board with one thing: we make web things!

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nve differentiates itself from nvm run because it: can be run programmatically is 10 times faster does not need a separate installation step for each Node version works on Windows does not require Bash is installed as a Node module Worth noting: this is not a full-on replacement for nvm or any other version manager. It only executes a single command with the specified Node version. But sometimes, that’s all you need. 😄

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With the jumping off point of KBall’s question: “What are best practices for organizing a Node project?” Mikeal and Feross drop an incredible amount of wisdom about Node, organizing using modules, release management, deployment approaches, how to adopt change, and more.

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In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Feross Aboukhadijeh. Feross is the creator and maintainer of 100’s of open source projects which have been downloaded 100’s of million of times each month — projects like StandardJS, BitMidi, and WebTorrent to name a few. This episode with Feross continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.

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A truly impressive WebGL playground that even works on mobile.

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A tool for building lighweight Electron apps using a global Electron instance. Forget about 100MB for a Hello World app in Electron! This works by creating a custom Electron distributable with a small app launcher which checks the app’s package.json and downloads corresponding version. Then the distributable can be used with electron-builder to build the app installers. I’d like to see a few folks kick the tires on this and report back how it works. Looks like there’s issues on older verisons of macOS, for starters.

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Love it! Go here for more examples.

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