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Friday, June 26, 2020

Google Has Added New Features In Google Maps’ Business Messages, That Are Now Available In Search

On Thursday, Google announced that the company is expanding access to its Business Messages from Google Search and Google Maps. Now, all kinds of businesses will be able to directly connect to their consumers via Maps and Search. The company added a new way in Map to help consumers to directly...

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Angular 10, data grids, randomness, and checking some boxes

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Lessons Learned Refactoring Optional Chaining Into a Large Codebase — Lea Verou, creator of Mavo, decided to refactor Mavo to use optional chaining (?.) and here’s some of what she discovered along the way. (As an aside, Lea was the subject of a neat 10 minute programming documentary recently – worth a watch!)

Lea Verou

A Little Bit of Plain JavaScript Can Do A Lot — For anyone more than happy to dive in and write JavaScript without dragging in an entire framework and tooling to manage it, there will be no surprises here, but this is a nice reminder otherwise. Do you always need a 'framework'? No.

Julia Evans

Creating a Voting App with Firestore and Wijmo — Learn how to build a realtime voting app quickly and easily with the Firestore database and Wijmo components. The app uses OAuth for authentication and allows users to submit and vote for ideas.

Wijmo by GrapeCity sponsor

Angular 10 Released — A major release for the popular Google-led framework, though smaller in scope than usual as Angular 9 only came out in February ;-) 10 gains a new date range picker, optional stricter settings, and an upgrade to TypeScript 3.9.

Stephen Fluin (Google)

What's Coming in TypeScript 4? — The first beta of TypeScript 4 is due any moment with a final release due in August. New bits and pieces include variadic tuple types, labelled tuples, short-cut assignment operators (e.g. ||=) and more.

Tim Perry

⚡️ Quick bytes:

Chrome 85's DevTools have gained better support for working with styles created by CSSOM APIs (such as by CSS-in-JS frameworks). There's also syntax autocompletion for optional chaining and highlighting for private fields.
There's nothing to see just yet, but NativeScript is coming to Ionic.
The creator of AlpineJS has written about how he's passed $100K/yr in income using GitHub Sponsors.
Did you know there's a Slack theme for VS Code? 😆
▶️ The JS Party podcast crew discusses how their use of JavaScript syntax evolves (or not) over time.
engineeringblogs.xyz is a new aggregator site (by us!) that brings together what 507 (so far) product and software engineering blogs are talking about. Worth a skim.

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📚 Tutorials, Opinions and Stories

ECMAScript Proposal: Private Static Methods and Accessors in Classes — Dr. Axel takes a look at another forthcoming language feature (in this case being at stage 3 and already supported by Babel and elsewhere).

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

npm v7 Series: Why Keep package-lock.json? — If npm v7 is going to support yarn.lock files, then why keep package-lock.json around as well? Isaac goes into some depth as to how yarn.lock works and why it doesn’t quite suit every npm use case.

Isaac Z. Schlueter

How to Dynamically Get All CSS Custom Properties on a Page — Some fun DOM and stylesheet wrangling on display here.

Tyler Gaw

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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Getting Started with Oak for Building HTTP Services in Deno — A comprehensive Oak with Deno tutorial for beginners (which, I guess, we all are when it comes to Deno). Oak is essentially the most popular option for building HTTP-based apps in Deno right now.

Robin Wieruch

Understanding Generators in JavaScript — Generator functions can be paused and resumed and yield multiple values over time and were introduced in ES6/ES2015.

Tania Rascia

Build a CRUD App with Vue.js, Spring Boot, and Kotlin — It’s a fact of life that not everyone is building apps with JavaScript at every level of the stack. Sometimes.. people use Java too 🤫

Andrew Hughes

▶ Creating a Basic Implemention of 'Subway Surfers' — No modules, webpack or such-like here.. just exploring the joy of throwing a game mechanic together quickly using rough and ready JavaScript. Love it.

Shawn Beaton

Rubber Duck Debugging for JavaScript Developers — When you’re stuck with something, why not talk to a rubber duck?

Valeri Karpov

🔧 Code & Tools

Tabulator 4.7: An Interactive Table and Data Grid Library — Supports all major browsers and can be used with Angular, Vue, and React if you wish. 4.7 is a substantial release. Among other things is a new layout mode that resizes the table container to fit the data (example).

Oli Folkerd

Tragopan: A Minimal Dependency-Free Pan/Zoom Library — Try it out here. Claims to work faster due to use of native browser scrolling for panning (left/right/up/down) and transform/scale for zooming.

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Builds Run Faster on Buildkite 🏃‍♀️ — Build times <5 mins at any scale. Self-hosted agents work with all languages, source control tools & platforms.

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React Query 2: Hooks for Fetching, Caching and Updating Async Data — React Query is well worth checking out and has extensive documentation and even its own devtools. Main repo.

Tanner Linsley

Rando.js: A Helper for Making Randomness Easier — The rando function lets you get random integers in a range, floats in a range, pick between multiple items, return a random element from an array, and more. There’s also randosequence for a more shuffle-like experience.

nastyox

jinabox.js: A Customizable Omnibox for AI Powered Searching — Designed to be used with a Jina back-end. It’s all open source, but will take some digging around to understand fully.

Jina AI

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Studio 3T sponsor

IntersectionObserver Visualizer — If you’re new to using the IntersectionObserver API, this useful interactive demo might help you comprehend it a little better.

michelle barker

Polly.js 5.0: Record, Replay, and Stub HTTP Interactions

Netflix

Vest: Effortless Validations Inspired by Testing Frameworks — If you’re used to unit testing, the syntax used here will be familiar.

Evyatar

👻 Scary Item of the Week

Checkboxland: Render 'Anything' as HTML Checkboxes — This frivolous experiment is equal parts terrifying and impressive. It’s a JS library that displays animations, text, and arbitrary data using nothing but HTML checkboxes and, to be fair, they’ve presented it really well!

Bryan Braun

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How to Keep Working Remotely in a Post-COVID-19 World

Though the COVID-19 pandemic is still far from over, many companies and employees are already looking to the post-COVID world. For many organizations, the enforced move to remote working over the past few months has presented significant challenges.

On the other hand, there are many employees who, despite being reticent to move to remote working at the beginning of the pandemic, are now finding that remote work actually suits them rather well.

If you fall into this category, you might be wondering how you can continue to work from home after the current crisis ends. Many of the strategies you can deploy to achieve this are, in fact, similar to those that make for effective remote working in the first place: ensuring effective collaboration in remote teams, and making sure that you set yourself up for success with remote work, to name a couple things.

Nevertheless, your employer might be hesitant to let you continue to work remotely after the pandemic is over. If you don’t want to move back to the office, you’ll find some tips in this article on how to convince your boss to let you continue working from home.

The Benefits of Remote Working

If you don’t want to move back to your office in the next few months, you’re not alone. In fact, nearly 43% of full-time American employees say they want to work remotely more often even after the economy has reopened. One of the biggest reasons for this is the time that the average tech worker saves in commuting. The average American spent roughly 27 minutes on their one-way commute to the office in 2018, which equates to more than 200 hours spent commuting per year.

For tech companies, there are other benefits of remote working. Many software development firms are inherently multi-national, and co-ordinating employees across the globe can actually be easier if they’re working from home. As we’ve previously pointed out, the future of remote work is asynchronous. Research has also found that the kind of creativity and flexibility that tech firms value is actually increased by remote working rather than decreased.

Despite these findings, many organizations are still hesitant to let their employees work from home — at least once the global health crisis is over. So how can you continue to work from home after all this is over?

Continue reading How to Keep Working Remotely in a Post-COVID-19 World on SitePoint.

by Dan Fries via SitePoint

You Can Now Upload A Graphics Package During A Web Broadcast By Using Facebook Live Producer

Facebook Live is a useful tool that allows users to share real-time stories and connect with other users. The company officially launched the live video on the platform for all users back in the year 2016. Since then, users have made more than 8.5 billion broadcasts. Facebook has been introducing...

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Facebook Updates The Group Color Palette Options To Vision Impaired Users

Facebook has been adding new color customization options to improve the user experience of the app. The social media giant is introducing more color palette options for Facebook Groups. With the new update, the company aims to help color-blind and vision-impaired users. One example of this new...

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