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Friday, May 8, 2020

This Research Ranks Popular Android Smartphones Based On How Long Their Security Updates Take To Reach To Device Owners

Major Android updates do not matter nowadays as the Google Play Store updates the various components of the Android OS. This means that users on a bit older Android versions such as 8 or 9 can still access the apps and features as users on Android 10. Yet, the Android Security updates released...

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New IBM Study Reveals More People Prefer Working from Home Now

Due to the current coronavirus pandemic that has pretty much taken over the entire world, going to an actual office and getting work done is simply out of the question and a big part of the reason why that is the case has to do with the fact that we have to observe social and physical distancing...

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Google Updates Its Android Authenticator App For The First Time Since 2017, And The Update Allows Users To Transfer Account Between Devices

Google has updated its code-based authentication application known as ‘Google Authenticator’ for the first in three years. Google Authenticator has jumped from version 5.0 to 5.10 in the latest update. The company has updated the user interface of the Google Authenticator app to adjust it for...

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Jest 26, JS one liners, and comparing Ember to React

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Jest 26 Released: The Popular Testing Framework — Jest is a popular testing framework that works with pretty much everything. This release focuses on getting the dependency count and install size down (this causes some breaking changes, unsurprisingly), adds a new fake timer implementation, drops Node 8 support, and initial, experimental ESM support to play with.

Christoph Nakazawa

1LOC: A Collection of One-Line JS Snippets — A neat little collection of vanilla JavaScript one-liners divided into various categories (arrays, date/time, checking objects, DOM work, etc.) You can submit your own for inclusion too.

Nguyen Huu Phuoc

Hardcore Functional Programming in JavaScript — Brian Lonsdorf teaches you functional programming concepts in JavaScript such as pure functions, currying, composition, functors, monads and more.

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Debug Anything: The Basics — A six part series (all ready to read now) on debugging your JavaScript and TypeScript code with the debugger built into Visual Studio Code.

Charles Szilagyi

Comparing Ember Octane and React — This is about as detailed a comparison as you could hope for and a demonstration of just how much Ember contributes to the JavaScript ecosystem. Octane really kicks things up a notch for Ember, too.

Chris Garrett

Deno 1.0 is Due Next Week: Here's What You Need to Know — In 2018 Node's creator Ryan Dahl told us 10 Things I Regret About Node.js and revealed a prototype of Deno, a new V8-based runtime, and here's what you need to know about it. Short of time? This two-minute video sums up the biggest wins quickly.

David Else

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📚 Tutorials

How To Build a Vue Survey App Using Firebase — A step-by-step guide to building a functional survey app using Vue.js and Firebase for both authentication and as a database.

David Atanda

A Brief Look at ES2020's Promise.any — When you need to know when at least 1 promise got resolved among an iterable of Promise objects, Promise.any() is the solution.

Marios Fakiolas

ES2020: Everything You Need to Know — An ES2020 roundup!

Martin McKeaveney

Building a Crossword Puzzle Generator — As a NY Times crossword addict, I love a good crossword, but if you’d rather figure out how to make your computer solve them, be my guest 😄 This post guides you on how to approach the problem.

Mitchum

Git Best Practices for SOC 2 Compliance Quick Wins — Get quick wins for your SOC 2 compliance audit, and raise developer productivity at the same time.

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Getting Started with Sapper and Svelte — Sapper is a Svelte-powered framework.

Chris Boakes

A ES2015+ Cheatsheet — A one-page guide to ES2015+ features based around brief example snippets.

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How to Fix ESLint Errors Upon Save in VS Code — A quick-fire tip.

David Walsh

How to Build a Blog with Next 9.3, Netlify, and Markdown — Learn how to build a Next.js-powered Markdown blog and deploy it to the Netlify platform.

Cassidy Williams

A Canvas Engine Comparison: PixiJS vs Two.js vs Paper.js — A benchmark of three popular 2D rendering engines/drawing APIs. Note: This will tax your system.

SlayLines

🎉 BTW, if you like videos, we need to shout out Florin Pop's YouTube channel as he's just passed 20k subscribers by posting neat JavaScript videos and live streams nearly every day for the past six months! 😁 Lots of great stuff on there for JavaScript developers of all skill levels.

🔧 Code & Tools

Selecto.js: Make Elements Selectable Within an Area — Let’s say you have a number of elements that represent choices, data, whatever, and you want users to be able to select a subset of them by clicking/pointing and dragging. That’s what this does. Live examples here.

Daybrush (Younkue Choi)

Visual Studio Code April 2020 Released — Probably the most widely used editor in the JavaScript space now and April brings some neat new features like being able to work on GitHub issues within the editor.

Microsoft

Stream Chat API & JavaScript SDK for Custom Chat Apps — Build real-time chat in less time. Rapidly ship in-app messaging with our highly reliable chat infrastructure.

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Majestic 1.7: A Zero Config GUI for Jest — A tool to help make your JavaScript testing life a little easier. Run npx majestic in the folder of any project that uses Jest to give it a quick try.

Raathi Kugarajan

Pico: Take Browser Screenshots Client-Side with JavaScript — Different from capturing a webpage using Puppeteer or a similar tool in that the screenshot taking happens entirely client side.

Gripeless

React Flow: A Library for Rendering Interactive Graphs — If you have a need to lay out graphs in a visual way and be able to smoothly pan and zoom around such graphs, this is an interesting new library. Live demo here.

Moritz Klack

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NeutralinoJS: Build Cross-Platform Apps Using JS, HTML and CSS — Sounds just like Electron, right? Not quite. NeutralinoJS use less memory and are smaller as they don’t ship a full browser inside. 1.4.0 just dropped.

Neutralinojs

Slugify 1.0: Simply Turns Strings into URL/Filename-Friendly 'Slugs' — e.g. ‘I ♥ Dogs’ becomes ‘i-love-dogs’

Sindre Sorhus

RxJS Primitives: A Set of Libraries That Provide Operators for RxJS

Tane Piper

⚡️ Quick releases:

Madge 3.9 — Plot graphs of your module dependencies.
Glider 1.7.2 — Dependency-free carousel alternative.
vue-virtual-scroll-list 2.2 — High performance large list rendering.
Pickr 1.6 — Color picker, now with i18n support.
vue-test-utils 1.0 — Official Vue.js testing utilities.
Espree 7.0 — Esprima-compatible JavaScript parser.

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New Apple updates merging Medical ID and Emergency SOS features for prompt medical care

Apple is beta-testing new features for iOS 13.5 and watchOS 6.2.5, which are expected to be updated by the end of May 2020. These new software features are intended to alert the first responders and make a significant impact in saving lives more effectively, amid this coronavirus pandemic. Apple...

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Website Inspiration: Barrel Recap 2019

Fun Annual Report One Pager (built using Webflow) by Barrel recapping their 2019 year. It’s busting with flavor from colorful changing backgrounds, cheeky thick-line illustrations and the playful bouncing social media icon footer. Also worth a shout is the responsive design, scaling up perfectly on huge screens while rearranging content well on small.

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