React Hooks, and the state of JavaScript and WebAssembly

#409 — October 26, 2018 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Introducing React 'Hooks' — Hooks are a proposed new feature for using state and other React features without writing classes. You can try them out in an alpha build of React 16.7 and keep up with discussion in this RFC. React WebAssembly’s Post-MVP Future: A Cartoon Skill Tree — A fantastic guide to understanding where WebAssembly fits into the big picture, what’s yet to come, and what impact WebAssembly could have on the Web. Mozilla Hacks ⚛️ New Course: Complete Intro to React, v4 — Learn to build real-world applications in React. Much more than an intro, you’ll start from the ground up all the way to using the latest features in React 16+ like Context and Portals. We also launched a follow up course, Intermediate React. Frontend Masters sponsor V8 Version 7.0 — A brief update on the latest beta of the V8 JavaScript engine. It goes stable when Chrome 70 comes out soon, but is also included in Node 11.0. Michael Hablich Playing Mortal Kombat with TensorFlow.js — A detailed walkthrough of what it took to building a posture classification algorithm using TensorFlow.js and MobileNet in order to play the ‘beat-em-up’ game Mortal Kombat. Minko Gechev ▶  Discussing the State of JavaScript with Addy Osmani — A discussion with Addy Osmani about the state of JavaScript and his favorite performance tools. Just 13 minutes so ideal if you get a quick break. Google Chrome Developers LazyBrush: Smooth Canvas Drawing with Any Pointing Device — Uses a mechanism to allow users to create smooth lines and curves. Works with both mouse and touch. The demo is neat. Jan Hug 💻 Jobs Sr. Fullstack Engineer (Remote) — Sticker Mule is looking for passionate developers to join our remote team. Come help us become the Internet’s best place to shop and work. Sticker Mule ReactJS Developer at Komoot (Remote) — Millions get inspired and plan adventures with our apps. 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Gauge solves this, helping you to create easy to maintain tests. Gauge sponsor Property Order is Predictable in JavaScript Objects Since ES2015 — Useful to know, I hadn’t realized this. Stefan Judis ▶  Internationalize your Web Applications with Globalize.js Alolita Sharma ▶  Create an Engaging Native Mobile App with Vue and NativeScript Jen Looper How to Create Custom HTML Markers on Google Maps Dan Ward Top 10 Things to Avoid When Considering Low-Code Progress Kinvey sponsor How to Reduce the Impact of JavaScript on Page Load Times — Lessons learned from serving billions of pageviews across thousands of sites. GoSquared Engineering Isoline Routing in an Angular Application using the HERE Routing API — Isoline routing is used to calculate an area that can be reached within a certain travel time or distance. Nic Raboy 🔧 Code and Tools A Promises and async/await Cheatsheet Frontend Armory clean_logs: A Better console.log for the Browser — Wraps around console.log, produces nicer output and provides logging levels. Pablo Giani Glean: A Refactoring Tool for React Code Wix Engineering What Does JSBin, Nuxt, Code Sandbox, and Material-UI Have in Common? — They all use CodeFund to provide passive income for their projects. Find out if CodeFund can help you. CodeFund sponsor IronDB: A 'Relentless' Key-Value Store for The Browser — Relentless in the sense that it redundantly stores data in multiple browser stores (i.e. in cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage & IndexedDB) and tries to ‘self heal’ upon data loss. Ansgar Grunseid React v16.6.0 Released — More about this in this week’s React newsletter. Sebastian Markbåge Squirrelly: A Fast, Lightweight, and Simple JS Template Engine — Only 2.6KB gzipped and supports partials, helpers, filters, and native code. 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