Issue 150

Must Read

Animating URLs with Javascript and Emojis

In this post, Matthew Rayfield teaches how to animate URLs with JavaScript and emojis.

Learn

How We Used WebAssembly to Speed Up Our Webapp by 20X

A case study exploring how to speed up web apps by replacing slow JavaScript calculations with compiled WebAssembly. (Note: WebAssembly is becoming so important lately that we're working on a special issue about it. Watch this space.)

7 Useful JavaScript Tricks

I just can’t resist the occasional ‘here’s a bundle of neat tricks’ post, so sorry, not sorry 😂 The tricks are relatively simple, but if you’ve not heard of URLSearchParams, say, you need to be checking them out.

Tools & Code

HTTP View: A Tool to Intercept, Explore and Debug HTTP Requests

An open source tool for debugging, testing and working with HTTP(S). A ‘pro’ level paid version can also detect third party APIs you’re working with and provide more information.

themer.dev

themer takes a set of colors and generates themes for your development environment (editors, terminals, wallpapers, and more).

mermaid · GitBook

Ever wanted to simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools like Visio when explaining your code? This is why mermaid was born, a simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript.

Misc

You Should Never Ever Run Directly Against Node.js in Production. Maybe.'

In short, directly running Node apps (particularly those that act as servers) can be brittle, so why not use tools like supervisor, nodemon or pm2 to keep things robust?

Faster and More Feature-Rich Internationalization APIs in V8

Intl provides a feature-rich API for several operations needed in internationalizing your web app and the V8 team has been improving support and performance.

Jobs

Senior Front-End Developer (React/Redux) - Remote

Are you a React/Redux expert? If you are, then this job is perfect for you. We are looking for senior developers with excellent communication skills.