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How to Roll Your Own Serverless JS-Powered Analytics System
A really neat walkthrough of the idea of building your own basic Web analytics system using React, AWS Lambda, and storing the results in Google Sheets.
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GraphQL Tutorials for Frontend Developers
A series of free, 2-hour tutorials that cover how to use GraphQL with your favorite frontend / mobile framework.
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Seven Problems You Can Avoid by using Nuxt.js for Your Next Vue App
Nuxt.js is a framework for building universal Vue.js apps.
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Visual Studio Code Previews Support for 'Remote Development'
The VS Code editor is getting an exciting new feature, the ability to work directly with remote workspaces (running either WSL, Docker containers, or physical machines or VMs over SSH).
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Tools & Code
Faster script loading with BinaryAST?
BinaryAST is an over-the-wire format for JavaScript (backed by both Mozilla and Cloudflare) that aims to speed up parsing while keeping JavaScript’s semantics intact. Here’s how it works, what the benefits might be, and how Cloudflare are hoping to lean on BinaryAST in its goal to make the Web faster.
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Textblock: Set Continuously Responsive Typography
A JS library that adjusts the size, leading, line height, and other factors of text to make it ‘continuously responsive’.
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Watch
How Facebook is Building the New Facebook.com with React, GraphQL and Relay
The forthcoming redesign is fully powered by React and Relay and this 35 minute talk digs into the technicalities.
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Misc
Microsoft Releases Preview Builds of Its New Chromium and V8-Based Edge
The first developer builds of the new Edge browser based on Google’s Chromium open source project (and therefore also using the V8 JavaScript engine) are now available for Windows 10 users. This move will only continue to cement V8’s popularity and importance as it'll eventually be the default for all Windows users.
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