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This week we're taking a break from the usual roundup to look back at what happened in the JavaScript world in 2018, as well as the tutorials, videos, and tools you, our fantastic readers 🤗, clicked on the most.
Thanks for continuing to support us in 2018 and we'll be back on January 4th. We hope you have a fantastic holiday season, however you celebrate it. 🎄
Here's to more JavaScript developments in 2019! 🍾
— Peter Cooper, editor
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🗞 JavaScript developments in 2018
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- We found out that Microsoft has been rewriting Office 365 in JavaScript.
- ECMA published the official ECMAScript 2018 specification, thus ensuring all JavaScript developers had plentiful bedtime reading all summer. Dr. Axel can help if you want to understand it.
- Node 10 and npm 6 came out.
- Anil Dash asked what would happen if JavaScript became the first-ever truly dominant programming language?
- Redux 'died', then came back to life, died again, then back to life again.
- Oracle's ownership of the 'JavaScript' trademark continued to annoy developers, even prompting a suggestion to rename the language.
- 2 years of hard work translated into Babel 7 being released.
- Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5b, then they removed jQuery from their frontend. They haven't moved to Azure as yet.
- JSConf US came back to life after a hiatus.
- The annual State of JavaScript survey ran, got over 20,000 responses, and told us React continues to flourish, everyone wants to learn Vue.js, and the use of ES6 is now very well established. Also, everyone's using VS Code now.
- Evan You gave us a preview of Vue.js 3.0.
- The V8 JavaScript engine turned 10 years old. The work on V8 over the years has been instrumental in making JavaScript as popular as it is now, IMHO.
- The React team unveiled Hooks, an experimental feature in React 16.7 that got a lot of React developers very excited and seems as if it may become a key element of React development in 2019.
- A popular npm package was exploited causing a lot of discussion about how we prevent such things in future.
- Marijn Haverbeke spent the whole year writing a third edition of Eloquent JavaScript. It's almost finished.
- Lots of versions of V8, TypeScript, Vue.js, Jest, React, Angular, Aurelia and Ember came out. We're not linking them all again 🤣
Please note, this list is just a selection and isn't exhaustive.. you've got our issue archive for that :-)
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Going Beyond console.log() — While console.log() may form the basis of many people’s debugging strategies, the console object has a lot more to offer, as covered here. This was our top tutorial of the year with over 12,000 of you clicking.
Matt Burgess
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33 Concepts Every JavaScript Developer Should Know — A curated collection of links to tutorials on 33 different areas of JavaScript it’s worth understanding well, and not only one of our most popular links but one of the most starred projects on GitHub too.
Leonardo Maldonado
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The Front-End Developer Handbook 2018 Edition — An online guide that outlines and discusses the practice of front-end engineering, how to learn it and what tools are used in the practice, as of 2018. Let's hope we see a 2019 edition!
Cody Lindley
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What is Redux: A Designer’s Guide — A really neat high-level approach to explaining Redux and what it offers beyond state management. Smashing Magazine really had some amazing tutorials go out this year.
Linton Ye
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The Cost of JavaScript in 2018 — A detailed write-up of thoughts and findings on how much effect JavaScript has on page sizes and performance and some ways to improve matters.
Addy Osmani
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▶ Write Perfect Code with Standard and ESLint — An intro to getting started with linting (and why - hint: to catch errors in your code) as well as how to improve your setup if you’re already doing it.
Feross Aboukhadijeh
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▶ Build The Future of the Web with Modern JavaScript — A Google I/O presentation presenting an overview of cutting-edge JavaScript features, plus what to expect in future versions of Chrome and Node.js (some of which we now have).
Mathias Bynens and Sathya Gunasekaran
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🔧 Top code and tools of 2018
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Angular 7 Released — A major release of Angular came out this year with upgrades for the Angular entire platform from the core framework to Angular Material and the CLI tools.
Stephen Fluin (Google)
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JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures — JavaScript examples of many common algorithms (e.g. bit manipulation, Pascal’s triangle, Hamming distance) and data structures (e.g. linked lists, tries, graphs) with explanations.
Oleksii Trekhleb
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TUI Calendar: An Attractive, Full Featured Calendar Control — From the creators of TUI Chart comes TUI Calendar, a highly customizable JavaScript calendar widget that supports numerous view types (weekly, monthly, etc.), dragging and resizing of schedule items, and is basically like your own Google Calendar in a box. MIT licensed too.
NHN Entertainment
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Storybook 4.0: The UI Component Workshop — A great tool for building UI components got a major update with support for webpack 4 and Babel 7, React Native, Ember, Svelte, Riot, and more, plus improvements for existing React, Vue and Angular users. If you’re not familiar with Storybook, learn more here.
Michael Shilman
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Create React App 2.0 Released — A significant release of a project that’s continued to have a huge effect on the adoption of React by making it easier to get a project started. Psst.. we have a React newsletter too.
Joe Haddad and Dan Abramov
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