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Friday, September 20, 2019

YouTube TV app will have a considerable advertisement masthead box

The TV app of YouTube will soon have a large advertisement banner at the top of its home page, like its leading site. The ad is referred to as YouTube Masthead, which is taken as the prime advertisement slot. According to Google Ads Product Manager, Anish Kattukaran, just like the masthead box of...

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Why 0.1 + 0.2 doesn't equal what you'd think..

#455 — September 20, 2019

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JavaScript Weekly

Wikipedia's JavaScript Initialization on a Budget — As one of the world’s most heavily used sites, Wikipedia wants to keep things running as quickly as possible, including delivering all of their JavaScript within 28KB. Here’s what they’ve done to (almost) reach the goal.

Timo Tijhof

Practical Ways to Write Better JavaScript — A handful of best practices (though I know many will disagree with the “use TypeScript” one) from linting to testing and using modern ECMAScript features.

Ryland Goldstein

⚛️ 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

▶ Why 0.1 + 0.2 === 0.30000000000000004: Implementing IEEE 754 in JS — Head to your JavaScript console now and type in 0.1 + 0.2. If the answer confuses you, this is the video for you. And even if you know why, working with the building blocks behind floating point representations is just cool.

Low Level JavaScript

Machine Learning For Frontend Developers with Tensorflow.js — How to get started with machine learning using Tensorflow.js, plus a brief look at the limits of doing machine learning on the frontend.

Charlie Gerard

All 245 Entries of the 2019 JS13kGames Competition — We linked to the popular 13 kilobyte game development competition a few weeks back and now you can play the results. Some very impressive games here (like this Missile Command clone) considering the 13KB limit – you’re all geniuses!

Andrzej Mazur

Quick bytes:

Indeed has donated $10,000 to the ESLint project.
A bot found a vulnerability in a dependency, sent a PR to fix it, another bot merged and celebrated it. Welcome to the no-human development future 😄
If you want to use GitHub Actions (still in beta), apparently all signups are now accepted instantly. Enjoy.

💻 Jobs

It’s Not Rocket Science . . . Or is it? — Our client is looking for a programmer with out-of-this-world skills and an attention to detail that would make NASA sit up and take notice.

CareersJS

Engineering Manager - Boston, MA — Upstatement seeks a maker/manager to help build impactful digital products for clients we believe in as a part of a passionate team.

Upstatement

Find a JavaScript job through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started.

Vettery

📘 Articles & Tutorials

The 80/20 Guide to Maps in JavaScript — A Map is an object that stores key/value pairs. Maps are similar to general JavaScript objects, but there are a few key differences that make maps useful..

Valeri Karpov

How to Profile a React App for Performance — See how to use the React DevTools and React’s profiling build to get started with performance profiling a production app.

Kent C Dodds

▶ Duck Tapes Podcast - New Episodes Every Monday — We interview the titans of tech to discuss hot topics across the JS community. With us, you will laugh while you learn.

Duck Tapes Podcast sponsor

Moving Beyond console.log() — 8 Methods You Should Use When Debugging — Includes console.assert, console.count, console.group and two timing methods.

Marco Antonio Ghiani

A 4 Part Guide to Iterators and Generators — A lot to digest in this series about both synchronous and asynchronous iterators and generators, with each getting a full article.

Andrea Simone Costa

Human Readable JavaScript — There are plenty of optional characters when defining functions. When used in functional methods these options increase. What are they? And how do they affect readability?

Laurie Barth

▶ How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Vue 3.0 Composition API — If the proposed Vue 3.0 additions intrigued you, this talk is an accessible introduction. (Sadly, the code in the middle of the talk is almost impossible to read in the video, but it’s on GitHub and but there are other useful things to enjoy here.)

James Stewart

▶ Building a Webapp to Do Optical Character Recognition — A very accessible 30 minute tutorial walking through building a simple Node-based webapp that can do OCR on images and convert them into PDFs with selectable text.

Dev Ed

On Demand: Getting Started with NodeSource and AWS Lambda

NodeSource sponsor

Getting Started with Electron, TypeScript, React and Webpack — Covers the essentials of setting up an app with the various tools. The actual app building is left as an exercise for you.

Justin Ellison

Cheat Sheet for Moving from jQuery to Vanilla JavaScript

Tobias Ahlin

🔧 Code & Tools

Storybook 5.2 Released: The Component Development Tool — Storybook is a popular tool for working on UI components for React, Vue, and Angular, and version 5.2 now adds ‘zero config’ support for generating documentation for your components (plus React hooks and improved TypeScript support).

Michael Shilman

Sortable 1.10: Reorderable Drag-and-Drop Lists — Happy on touch devices and modern browsers (IE9+), drag items between lists, define your own drag handles, works well with Angular, React, etc. GitHub repo.

Sortable

How Taiko Compares to Other Browser Automation Tools — Taiko chooses reliability over extreme performance. But, you can choose to override it. See how Taiko compares with other browser automation tools.

ThoughtWorks -Taiko sponsor

Vue Select: A Solid, Feature-Rich <select> Component for Vue

Jeff Sagal

Geometric.js: A Library for Doing Geometry — Work with points, lines, polygons, angles, etc.

Harry Stevens

Emittery: A Simple, Modern Async Event Emitter

Sindre Sorhus

⚡️ Quick Releases

VuePress 1.1 — A Vue-powered static site generator.
Ava 2.4 — Popular Node.js test runner.
Relay 6.0 — Declarative GraphQL data fetching for React.
PapaParse 5.1 — Fast CSV parser.
Glide 3.4 — Dependency-free slider and carousel.
ESLint 6.4.0
GPU.js 2.0.0

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Despite a huge outrage on its first hardware device, Facebook again reveals its new home speakers

Last year, Facebook launched its very first hardware device but it gained more hate than likes due to its potential spying status. On Wednesday, Facebook revealed its new generation portal video chatting devices and it is creepy too for some privacy-savvy consumers. Facebook just can’t get it that...

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Facebook Tackles Extremism By Broadening Definition of the Term

Facebook used to be a social media platform that pretty much the whole world loved to use in some way, but all of that changed after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, as well as a series of other privacy disasters that made people aware of just how dangerous a place the social media platform could...

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Website Inspiration: Brandbag

Lovely colorful teaser page for Brandbag featuring draggable SVG shapes and even a reset button!

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by Rob Hope @robhope via One Page Love

Website Inspiration: Sawdust Art Festival

Long-scrolling Landing Page featuring multiple load transitions for the woodworking at the Sawdust Art Festival. Great to feature more One Pager in niches like these.

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by Rob Hope @robhope via One Page Love