A lot of questions for JavaScript developers

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Frontend Masters sponsor Node Weekly: Our Sister Newsletter for Node Developers — Earlier this week I was speaking with a long time JavaScript Weekly subscriber who hadn’t heard of Node Weekly, our Node-focused weekly newsletter, so I thought I should invite you all to check out the latest issue as we cover a lot of Node things there that we don’t include in JSW :-) Be sure to check out the “7 Interesting Node Modules and Tools” section at the bottom! Cooperpress ⚡️ Quick bytes: JSGrids is a handy compilation of the best spreadsheet and data grid libraries so you can compare and pick the right one for you. VS Code May 2020 has been released with a preview of editor setting syncing between multiple machines, CommonJS auto imports, preserved newlines during JS/TS refactorings, and more. Excited for Vue 3? There's now an 'awesome' list for Vue 3 resources, links, videos, etc. MDN has introduced a new front-end development learning pathway to add an opinionated and curated set of tutorials to guide you through learning things like CSS and JavaScript. There's a JavaScript game you can play in your browser's title bar. Yes, it's open source. 💻 Jobs JavaScript Developer at X-Team (Remote) — Join X-Team and work on projects for companies like Riot Games, FOX, Coinbase, and more. Work from anywhere. X-Team Find A Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery 📚 Tutorials, Opinions and Stories An Old School Doom Clone (in 13KB of JavaScript) — I have no idea how we missed this last year, but wow, what a neat piece of work. You can even grab it and play with the code yourself. Nicholas Carlini Type Assertions in TypeScript — A way to temporarily override a type, a little like lightweight casting. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer How to Deploy a Gridsome App on Azure Static Web Apps — Brings together the Gridsome Vue.js site generator with Azure’s new static app deployment service. Gift Egwuenu Bitmovin Magazine 5th Edition: Shaping the Future of Video — Get the latest overview of our products, recent feature releases, current video trends, and customer case studies. Bitmovin Inc. sponsor Using Higher-Order Components in React — Learn about higher-order components, the syntax of higher-order components, as well as use cases for them. Shedrack Akintayo How to Compare Objects in JavaScript — Compares a few different levels of what ‘equality’ actually is when it comes to JS objects. Dmitri Pavlutin Svelte, Why So Much Hype? — A closer look at the component-based library. Anthony Le Goas Improving the Rendering Performance of a Large List View in AngularJS 1.2.22 — You’re probably not doing this, but this is a pretty neat look at approaching performance issues in legacy apps. Ben Nadel 🔧 Code & Tools njt (npm jump to): A Quick Navigation Tool for npm Packages — njt is a tool you can either use locally (npm install njt first) or on the Web site and it acts as a way to quickly reach a package’s issues, homepage, pull request, and numerous other things. Clever idea. Alexander Kachkaev Math.js 7.0: An Extensive Math Library for Node.js and Browser — Work with complex numbers, fractions, units, matrices, symbolic computation, etc. Jos de Jong 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. Stream sponsor Quotebacks: Embed Quotes Without Losing Context — This is a small library that can embed a quote in an attractive format within the source context. Can also be used as a Chrome extension that saves to local storage. Tom Critchlow and Toby Shorin Johnny Five 2.0: A JavaScript Robotics and IoT Programming Framework — If you’d wondered why you haven’t seen much about Johnny Five lately, don’t fear, because… Five is Alive! v2.0 is primarily an internal rewrite release rather than boasting lots of new features, though. Rick Waldron Karma 5: A Multiple Real Browser Test Runner for JavaScript — A popular way to test your code in multiple, real browsers at once. GitHub repo. Karma React Date Picker 3.0: A Simple and Reusable Date-Picker Component — A mature option that continues to get frequent updates. Demo here. HackerOne ModJS: A JavaScript Module for KeyDB and Redis — This isn’t for using Redis (or the KeyDB fork) from JavaScript but for taking JavaScript into the popular data structure server in case you prefer JavaScript to Lua for scripting it. John Sully Getting Started With OpenTelemetry In Node.js Lightstep sponsor Lightweight Charts 3.0: Canvas-Powered Financial Charts TradingView, Inc. tsParticles v1.15.0: A TypeScript Library for Particle Effects — Lots of neat demos in this announcement post. It’s basically Particles.js, but ported to TypeScript. GitHub repo. Matteo Bruni Josh.js: A Library to Animate Content on Page Scroll — This effect feels a little overdone nowadays, but this library is small, efficient, and it feels performant to me too. Al Mamun SVGuitar: Create SVG-Based Guitar Chord Charts — Very flexible and customizable and you can have a hand-drawn effect as well. Raphael Voellmy 🗓 Upcoming Online Events JS Nation (June 18-19) — This free two-day remote conference features over 25 speakers, including Jen Looper, Max Stoiber, John Papa and others. OpenJS World (June 23-24) — Speakers at this 'virtual experience' include Nicole Sullivan, Prosper Otemuyiwa, Cassidy Williams and more. CascadiaJS 2020 (September 1-2) — This upcoming online conference is set to take place in September.

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