Has The Gig Economy Finally Jumped The Shark? (infographic)

Since the Great Recession, gig jobs have been celebrated as the economy of the future - but after a decade, are U.S. workers still making a profit on gig jobs? Many of the biggest gig startups were created because of the Great Recession of 2008, with 7.2% unemployment after it, the demand for...

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Electron 6, a String#replace trick, and learning about scope in JS

#448 — August 2, 2019 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Hotkey: Trigger an Action on an Element When a Keyboard 'Hotkey' is Pressed — Want quick and simple keyboard shortcuts for elements on your page? Set the data-hotkey attribute and use Hotkey. It even supports multiple keys pressed in sequence. GitHub built and uses it (view source on any GitHub page and look for the data-hotkey attributes). GitHub Electron 6.0 Released — Just 3 months after version 5 was released, the popular JavaScript-based cross-platform desktop app building platform hits version 6 and uses Chromium 76, Node 12.4, and V8 7.6 under the hood. Electron.js Team New Introduction to Gatsby Course with Jason Lengstorf — Build blazing 🔥 fast website by default with Gatsby. In this course, you'll build up a blog from scratch and deploy your brand new blog to Netlify for the world to see! Frontend Masters sponsor Did You Know String.prototype.replace Supports Replacement Patterns? — It feels a bit Perl-like, but this is an interesting feature I’d never seen in JavaScript before (despite being in the MDN docs). Example: 'abc'.replace('b', '$&-$&') === 'ab-bc'. Stefan Judis Writing a Simple MVC App in Plain JavaScript — If you’re tired of hearing about React, Angular, Mithril, Ember, and the rest, and just want to write JavaScript, this is for you. (Ultimately, all of those frameworks are very useful but being able to work without them first will help you appreciate what they do!) Tania Rascia Taking Redux Off of the Main Thread with Comlink — Using Web Workers carefully can yield major UX and performance benefits by taking computation off of the UI thread. Here’s one way to do it when using Redux. Surma Quick bytes: VueConf US 2020 is taking place on March 2-4 in Austin, Texas. The CFP opens on September 1. The Ember project has published a roadmap for its future. Amazon Transcribe, AWS's speech-to-text service, now supports WebSockets for streaming, real-time transcription. Chrome is going to hide the 'www' subdomain and 'https' scheme in its location bar to make URLs 'easier to read'. Kyle Simpson has started work on the 2nd edition of his popular You Don't Know JavaScript book series. 💻 Jobs JavaScript Developer at X-Team (Remote) — Join the most energizing community for developers. Work from anywhere with the world's leading brands. X-Team Front-end Engineer — Goldstar is looking for front-end Engineers with React experience on-site in Portland, Oregon and Pasadena, California. Goldstar Get Hired Based on Your Skills Not Your CV — Our AI makes it easier and quicker to match with top JavaScript jobs, with no recruiters and an average salary of £70k. hackajob 📘 Tutorials, Opinions, and Videos ▶  Let's Learn About Scope in JavaScript — Google’s dynamic JavaScript duo, Jake and Surma, present an entertaining chat about variable scoping, complete with tablet-based demos. Google Chrome Developers Looking at the Optional Chaining ES Proposal — Boils down the proposal to exactly the essentials you need to know. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer The Developer’s Guide to Not Losing the Metrics You Need — Gathering and storing metrics is a part of production. When adverse events occur, you need to have the metrics available to debug the problems. InfluxData sponsor Do React Hooks Replace Redux? — This question has bounced around in the community a lot recently as more use cases for hooks emerge.. but Eric’s TLDR is ‘Hooks are Great, but No.’ and he explains why in depth. Eric Elliott Getting Started with Vuetify 2.0 — Vuetify is a Material Design-based component library for Vue.js. Ben Hong Quick Tips for Using Mocks when Unit Testing with Jest Daniel Caldas First-Class Functions in JavaScript — A brief tutorial aimed at beginners who might be wondering why being able to treat functions as first-class citizens (i.e. as objects in their own right) has merit. Nick Scialli Top 10 GitHub Best Practices - Lessons from Thousands of Repositories Datree.io sponsor My VS Code Setup: Making The Most Out of VS Code — A grab bag of addons and tools to consider if you’re a VS Code user. Deepu K Sasidharan Understanding RxJS Observables and Why You Need Them — RxJS is a reactive programming library based around ‘observables’ and is used by Angular for its reactivity.. but you can use it separately too. Nwose Lotanna 🔧 Code and Tools Hackathon Starter: A Boilerplate for Node Web Apps — A boilerplate for when you want to start building a Node app quickly (such as at a hackathon) as it includes almost everything you’d need. Sahat Yalkabov Esprint: Runs ESLint Across Multiple Threads for More Performance — It’s been considered that this could be merged into ESLint itself. Pinterest Ensure That Your Code Is Error-Free Before Merging — Set standards on coverage, duplication, complexity, and style issues and see real-time feedback in your Git workflow. Codacy sponsor Treeverse: Walk Tree Structures Depth- or Breadth-First Isaac Z Schlueter Rollup: A Modern ES6 Module Bundler — Not a new project, but it's been getting plenty of releases lately. Write your code using ES modules and get tree-shaking/dead code elimination and bundling to the format you require. One of Rollup’s wins over more popular alternatives is its speed. Rollup Contributors Top 25 JavaScript Plugins for WebStorm and IntelliJ Ilana Brudo ⚡️ Quick Releases Font Awesome 5.10.0 — The popular icon toolkit. webpack 4.39.0 — 'everything but the kitchen sink' bundler. TUI Editor 1.4.5 — Markdown-based WYSIWYG editor. Spectacle 5.7 — React.js-based presentation library. Duktape 2.4 — Embeddable JavaScript engine for C/C++ projects.

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SitePoint Premium New Releases: Smashing 6 + GraphQL & React Native

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Smashing Book 6: New Frontiers In Web Design

It’s about time to finally make sense of all the front-end and UX madness. Meet Smashing Book 6, with everything you need to know about web design. From design systems to accessible single-page apps, CSS Custom Properties, CSS Grid, Service Workers, performance patterns, AR/VR, conversational UIs and responsive art direction.

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Working with GraphQL and React Native

In this tutorial, we’re going to demostrate the power of GraphQL in a React Native setting by creating a simple coffee bean comparison app. So that you can focus on all of the great things GraphQL has to offer, Jamie has put together the base template for the application using Expo.

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What Countries Innovate the Most?

When a country has managed to get to a point where it is wealthy enough to start spending money on research and development within a wide variety of fields in science, it starts to innovate in ways that might not have been thought possible before. The World Intellectual Property Organization, an...

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The Top 5 One Pagers from July 2019

Here are the Top 5 Single Page websites featured on the One Page Love website in July. Hope they keep you inspired to create your own beautiful One Pagers – enjoy!

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5. Hastings Architecture (Most LovedPortfolio)

Unique One Pager for Hastings Architecture featuring an interesting wide-canvas approach with news (and about/team) loading left and projects right. Also note how the news feed scrolls slightly slower than the projects, nice touch!

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hastingsarchitecture.com

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4. Sketch Manager (DownloadLanding PageMost Loved)

Clean dark-schemed Landing Page for Sketch Manager featuring a gorgeously subtle use of parallax scrolling for the initial screenshot.

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sketchmanager.com

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3. Clickpivot (Landing PageMost LovedPortfolio)

Great looking One Pager with clean typography for custom branding and web design studio Clickpivot. Lovely touch with quick fire pop-up portfolio and also the interactive quote generator further down. Cheers for the excellent build notes!

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clickpivot.com

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2. The Grid (Launching SoonMost Loved)

Hilariously verbose copy but what an incredible background animation (demo) in this One Pager teasing v3 of The Grid.

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thegrid.io

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1. 1.1.1.1 (AppLanding PageMost Loved)

Lovely subtle parallax effects as you scroll this vibrant One Pager for the 1.1.1.1. app by CloudFlare. Also what a gorgeous touch with the scrolling colorful contours behind the intro headline copy.

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1.1.1.1

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Hope you enjoyed these beautiful One Pagers from July! Which was your favorite?

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1.1.1.1

Lovely subtle parallax effects as you scroll this vibrant One Pager for the 1.1.1.1. app by CloudFlare. Also what a gorgeous touch with the scrolling colorful contours behind the intro headline copy.

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Five Big Tech Giants Hold Hands Over Data Transfer Project

Data sharing and privacy breach are one of the most searched and talked about scandals nowadays. People have opinions over what data means to them and how sharing data of breach of the data can become a problem not only for them but also how tech giants are gaining profit from them. Over a year...

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