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KV Storage, the Web's First 'Built-In' Module?
Chrome is experimenting with a concept called built-in modules, essentially a sort of standard library for JavaScript that requires no extra downloads in clients such as browsers. A very interesting idea, but not without controversy.
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Why You Need to Normalize Unicode Strings
Or when "Zoë" !== "Zoë"! If you’re dealing with Unicode strings, you need to take into account that characters could be represented in multiple ways. See how String’s normalize method can help.
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A Look at Experimental Features in Node.js
Everything in Node was ‘experimental’ at some point. This post looks at some currently experimental features such as worker threads (essentially Node's answer to Web Workers) and performance hooks.
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7 Tricks with Resting and Spreading JavaScript Objects
Using modern JS features to merge objects, organize properties, and more. +1 for all the Mighty Boosh references too.
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A Complete Guide to React's useEffect
An amazingly epic post that will get anyone working with or thinking about React Hooks excited. It’ll help you understand a lot of the concepts involved. No time? There’s a good TLDR too.
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Tools & Code
Micromodal: Tiny JS Library for Creating Accessible Modal Dialogs
Just 1.9KB minified and gzipped.
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Sucrase: A Super-Fast Alternative to Babel.. in Certain Situations
Smaller in scope than Babel and compiles down to modern JS runtimes only (rather than ES5) with more performance optimizations to be had.
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Building Angular and React Applications Together With Nx
A look at how Nx can help you develop with multiple frameworks.
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