A lot of questions for JavaScript developers

#492 — June 12, 2020

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153 JavaScript Questions (With Their Answers Explained)— Want to test your JavaScript knowledge? Whether for fun or a job interview, this is an interesting set of questions, complete with explanations of the answers. We first linked to this a year ago when it only had about 40 questions, so it’s grown a lot!

Lydia Hallie

An ECMAScript Proposal: Logical Assignment Operators— Dr. Axel covers another proposal in the pipeline for the language that would let us do things like a ||= b or a &&= b as you might in, say, Ruby or Perl.

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📚 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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Getting Started With OpenTelemetry In Node.js

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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