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Episode 108

4/4/2020

Getting started

  • Progressive Rendering — The Key to Faster Web
  • React Router and Nginx over HTTP/2
  • Building a Code Editor with CodeMirror
  • Telegram Bot for GitHub Actions

Articles & News

  • A Practical Guide to Memory Leaks in Node.js
  • Pointer Compression in V8
  • How an anti ad-blocker works: Reverse-engineering BlockAdBlock
  • Understanding the ECMAScript spec, part 3

Tips, tricks & bit-sized awesomeness

  • Node.js 14 is due to be released on April 21st. There's a release candidate if you'd like to try it out
  • Deno 1.0 will be released May 13, 2020
  • TIL navigator.sendBeacon(url, data) is a thing
  • Introducing React Easy State by RisingStack
  • Babel transform and polyfill for ECMAScript Record and Tuple proposal
  • Proposal: Logical Assignment makes it to Stage 3
  • Proposal: Ergonomic brand checks for private fields, eg `#privateField in obj`, got Stage 1
  • Proposal: import.meta went to stage 4
  • New JavaScript features in ES2020

Releases

  • Theia 1.0
  • Perf.link v2

Libs & demos

  • vuex-orm
  • node-ble
  • bundle-buddy
  • preconstruct
  • react-cool-portal
  • nuz
  • spinners-react
  • tether
  • piano-chart
  • use-sound
  • codejar
  • notyf
  • flowify
  • Another World JS
  • htmldom.dev
  • sketchviz
  • colors.lol

Interesting & silly stuff

  • Internet Archive offers 1.4 million copyrighted books for free online
  • Pluralsight is making all 7,000+ video courses free for the entire month of April
  • Contribute to open source healthcare projects for COVID-19
  • Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families