Digital Has Rocked the Creative Landscape in Five Distinct Ways (infographic)

Creatives used to spend countless hours designing a few pieces of choice content for a small number of specific channels. With the advancement of digital technologies and processes, creatives are having to create more varied pieces for more platforms than previously. What does that mean for...

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Instagram’s Long Awaited 'Close Friends' Feature For Stories Finally Launched

Last summer Instagram had announced a feature they referred to as “Favorites”. This feature was a response to the rising trend of people making spam accounts where they only let their inner circle follow them. The Favorites feature was meant to be a place where you could share posts and stories...

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TypeScript 3.2, Ionic for Vue.js, and the React 16 roadmap

#414 — November 30, 2018 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly How a Popular Node Package Was Compromised — We focused on this story heavily in yesterday’s Node Weekly, but long story short, a malicious developer gained access to a popular npm module and added code that could steal cryptocurrency information. Zach Schneider The React 16.x Roadmap — If you’ve been following the React world over the past year, you’ll have run into a variety of new concepts like hooks and ‘Suspense’ and possibly wondered how it all fits into the big picture. This tidily explains all. Dan Abramov New Course: Introduction to Node.js by Scott Moss ✨👀 — Node.js can be used for build tools, desktop apps, mobile apps, databases, and more. Learn the foundations of Node.js so you can go forward and create fantastic JavaScript apps outside the browser. Frontend Masters sponsor A Vue from Ionic: Ionic Gains Support for Vue.js — Ionic is a popular collection of UI components for building high-quality, cross-platform apps both on the Web and natively. It’s historically been aimed at Angular developers but is extending support for Vue.js developers. The Official Ionic Blog Announcing TypeScript 3.2 — TypeScript (the language that brings static type-checking to JavaScript) gets a variety of improvements here such as type-checking for BigInts, recognition of Object.defineProperty declarations, and stricter checking for bind, call, and apply. Daniel Rosenwasser (Microsoft) ▶  A Quest to Guarantee Responsiveness: Scheduling On and Off the Main Thread — A 30 minute talk exploring two high-level strategies to improve responsiveness: main thread scheduling, and moving work into background threads (via Web Workers). Google Chrome Developers An Extensive Guide to Progressive Web Applications — PWAs use JavaScript and modern Web technologies to provide app-like experiences in the browser. This post wraps up all the pieces that are involved pretty well. Ankita Masand 💻 Jobs Sr. Angular Engineer at Services/Product Firm (Toronto /Remote) — Do you love Angular and helping teams build products? Join forces with thought-leaders and Fortune 500 teams. Code, teach, speak. NRWL.IO Join Our Career Marketplace & Get Matched With A Job You Love — Through Hired, software engineers have transparency into salary offers, competing opportunities, and job details. Hired 📘 Tutorials and Opinions Switching to Parcel from Webpack — How to take a Webpack config that handles Sass, Babel, vendor-prefixing, plus more, and do it with Parcel instead. Sunil Sandhu A Complete Guide To Routing in Angular — An introduction to Angular Router and using it to create client-side apps and Single Page Apps with routing and navigation. Ahmed Bouchefra Using Promise.prototype.finally() in TypeScript — Lets you execute a callback function once the promise that it’s called on has been settled. Marius Schulz The Subtle Art of Code Golf in JavaScript — Code ‘golf’ is the art/hobby of reducing code to as small a footprint as possible - usually for fun or as a challenge. Here we get to see some practical ways to do this. Thomas Lesscake Handling Complex Data Integrations in JavaScript Apps Progress Kinvey sponsor The JavaScript Object Paradigm and Prototypes Explained Simply Sean Maxwell ▶  How Math In JavaScript Can Be Awesome — How JS is becoming a great platform for mathematics and scientific computing in areas like deep learning and numerical analysis. Dominic Kramer Comparing JavaScript HTTP Request Libraries — Surface level summaries of Supertest, the Fetch API, Axios, Request, and SuperAgent. Chidume Nnamdi A Set of Best Practices for JavaScript Projects Elsewhen 🔧 Code and Tools ncc: The Node.js Compiler Collection — Outputs a self-contained script that bundles all its dependencies by using webpack. ZEIT Spin Up a Continuous Delivery Server in Less Than 5 Minutes — Trying out CD tools can take some time, so the GoCD team created a quick start option for new users. Try now. GoCD sponsor Sortable: A Reorderable Drag-and-Drop List Library — Well established and happy on both desktop and mobile/touch. Live demos here. Lebedev Konstantin CoolTextArea: A Vue Textarea with Embedded Emoji Picker — GitHub repo. Kevin de Faveri Aguiar progress-estimator: A Progress Bar and Time Estimate for Promises — Tracks time between responses to make the completion time estimates more accurate. Brian Vaughn Become More Productive with the IDE That Understands Your Code — With smart code completion and powerful refactorings, WebStorm makes it easier to work with complex projects. WebStorm sponsor Vue Lazy Image Loading: Lazy Image & Background Loading Plugin Artur Subotkevič Cytoscape.js: Graph/Network Visualization and Analysis Library Cytoscape Consortium 🗓 Upcoming JavaScript Events JS Kongress 2019 (March 11-12 in Munich, Germany) JSHeroes 2019 (April 11-12 in Romania) — Two days of conference talks and workshops. JSConf EU: Call for Speakers (June 1-2 in Berlin) — You can now submit talks for the 2019 JSConf EU. The deadline is December 23rd.

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Google follows Instagram's footsteps – introduces a similar Stories feature for YouTube creators

YouTube is rolling out a new feature for those creators who have more than 10,000 subscribers on their channels. It seems that the new update is similar to the Stories feature on Instagram but there are several significant differences between the two, nevertheless. The major change YouTube has...

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Have We Reached Peak Smartphone? [Chart of the day]

Apparently, the global smartphone market has come to a halt in 2018 as 377 million devices were shipped in 3rd quarter of 2017 in comparison to 355 million smartphones this year's 3rd quarter. The latest insights from global market intelligence firm, International Data Corporation (IDC) suggests...

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The Next 'Big Thing' in Mobile Internet is Coming Sooner Than You Think

The world is now more interconnected than ever before. Mobile internet has made it possible for all of us to lead very fast paced lives because we have access to vast quantities of information at fast speeds. These speeds are going to get even faster with the advent of 5G internet (as known as...

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