Must Read
Domain-Oriented Observability in JavaScript
When Martin Fowler puts his editorial backing behind an article, I pay attention! :-) Here’s a thorough walk through an approach to adding business-relevant observability to JavaScript code in a clean, testable way.
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Design Patterns in Modern JavaScript Development
An architecture-focused post that aims to whet your appetite for software design patterns.
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You Don’t Need Lodash or 'How I Started Loving JavaScript Functions'
A compilation of pure JavaScript recipes of nine commonly used Lodash/Underscore.js utility functions. I'd love to see a more extended version of this, actually.
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Tools & Code
Twemoji (Twitter Emoji): Emojis for Everyone
A library from Twitter that can give your apps cross platform support for the over 3000 emojis in Unicode 12 by parsing text and inserting hosted images for the relevant emojis.
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Choices: A Vanilla JS Customizable Select Box/Text Input Plugin
A vanilla, lightweight (~22kb gzipped 🎉), configurable select box/text input plugin. Similar to Select2 and Selectize but without the jQuery dependency.
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ReactPlayer: A React Component for Playing Media From Remote URLs
From file paths to YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, SoundCloud, Streamable, Vimeo, and more. (React developer? Our React newsletter is where most of our React-related links are.)
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A Look at Deno: A New JavaScript Runtime
Ryan originally created Node about ten years ago but recently he’s been working on Deno, a new, non-Node compatible, TypeScript-focused runtime with some interesting features. (Note: Poor audio until a few minutes in.)
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Interesting Links
MDX 1.0 Released: Seamlessly Write JSX in Markdown
A major milestone for an increasingly popular library that makes it easy to write content that directly relies on components. Homepage and GitHub repo.
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