Saturday, March 3, 2018

7 Leadership Traits That You Can Learn In An Afternoon - #Infographic

Despite all of the books, interviews, TED talks, and lunchtime powerpoint presentations, the nitty gritty details of being a good leader are surprisingly murky. Most leaders sitting at the top of the professional ladder will tell you that leaders are made, not born. So what does it take to become...

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Friday, March 2, 2018

FilePond – Flexible JavaScript File Upload Plugin

FilePond is a flexible and fun javascript file upload plugin with beautiful animations, fast uploads with client-side image optimization and smooth user experience.


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#375: webpack 4.0 Released, and a New Design for Us

#375 — March 2, 2018

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Yes, JavaScript Weekly is sporting an updated design. We've been testing it on some of our other newsletters (like React Status and Database Weekly) and it's giving us the opportunity to provide more variety and visual interest.

Any feedback or items you want to submit for next week, hit reply, but otherwise enjoy the issue. We'll be trying out a variety of ideas over the coming weeks :-)
— Peter Cooper, editor

webpack 4.0 Released — The popular module and asset bundler is now faster and has new development and production modes with pre-defined settings so you can start quicker too. You might also enjoy a tutorial for using it with Vue.js, a look at the chunk graph improvements, or what the new ‘modes’ do.

Sean T. Larkin

Propel: A Scientific Computing Framework for JS — A NumPy-like framework for mathematical work in JavaScript that can lean on TensorFlow for performance. Works with both Node and in the browser (using WebGL).

Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder

The Future of JavaScript: 2018 and Beyond — What is the state of the JavaScript ecosystem? This whitepaper offers our future-looking analysis and predictions about the latest in JavaScript. We also look back at all the craziness from 2017 and neatly tie it together with a bow. Download now.

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The Lost Art of the Makefile — It might not be trendy, but GNU Make does a lot of heavy lifting in the open source world and.. you can even use it to build JavaScript projects too.

Jesse Hallett

▶  In The Loop: A Tour of the Event Loop — A 35 minute talk looking at the browser event loop, the thing that orchestrates the main thread of the browser, which includes JS, events, and rendering.

Jake Archibald video

Tracing From JS to the DOM and Back Again with V8 — Debugging memory leaks in Chrome has become much easier now that Chrome 66’s DevTools can trace C++ DOM objects and display all reachable DOM objects from JavaScript with their references. In other V8 news, lazy deserialization has reduced V8’s memory consumption by 500KB+ per tab.

Degenbaev, Filippov, et al.

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Articles and Tutorials

The Origin Story of ESLint — The tale of how a popular linting tool came to be.

Nicholas C Zakas

How to Create an Accessible Autocomplete Component with Vue.js

Filipa Lacerda

TypeScript - JavaScript with Superpowers? — A very elementary introduction to the benefits of TypeScript.

Indrek Lasn

The Webpack 4.0 Release: What's New? — A quick roundup of the features and improvements.

Prosper Otemuyiwa

Ember's Equivalent of React's Render Props

David Tang

Learn to Build JavaScript Apps with MongoDB in M101JS, MongoDB for Node Developers

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🎬 Videos, Screencasts and Talks

▶  WebAssembly: What and What Next? — Two Googlers cover WebAssembly right from the basics up.

Ben Titzer and Andreas Rossberg

▶  JavaScript Pranks — A 5 minute tour of the JavaScript behind a truly annoying Web site.

Feross Aboukhadijeh

🔧 Code and Tools

Speed Measure Plugin: Measure Your webpack Build Speed — See how fast (or not) your plugins are so you can optimize your builds.

Stephen Cook

Pagedraw: A Tool to Turn Sketch Mockups into React Apps

Prepack: A Partial Evaluator and Optimizer for JavaScript

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basicScroll: Standalone Parallax Scrolling with CSS Variables — Use dynamically changing CSS variables to animate whatever you want.

Tobias Reich

Flatbush: Fast Static Spatial Index for 2D Points and Rects

Vladimir Agafonkin

Delighters.js: Trigger CSS Animations as a Page is Scrolled

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Tippy.js: A Lightweight, Vanilla JS Tooltip Library

Prompts: Attractive Interactive Prompts for Node CLIs

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FilePond: A Flexible JS File Uploader with Great UX — It's GPLv3 licensed so take care in where you use it unless you get a commercial license.

Rik Schennink


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Terry Loder Creative

Unique centrally-divided One Pager for the multi-talented Terry Loder Creative. The UI features minimal, uncluttered previews of jingles, radio, tv and more.

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Bill Gates: Cryptocurrency is ‘super risky’ over the long term [video]

Bill Gates is not a fan of cryptocurrency. During a recent "Ask Me Anything" session on Reddit, the Microsoft co-founder said that the main feature of cryptocurrencies is the anonymity they provide to buyers, and Gates thinks that can actually be harmful. "The government's...

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Using Iterators and Generators in JavaScript to Optimize Code

The History of Digital Content - #infographic

Would it surprise you to learn that 90% of the digital content out there has been created within the last two years? Digital cameras have been around since the 1970s, though they weren’t really adopted until the late 1990s, and digital photography didn’t hit its heyday until the advent of the first...

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