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The State of Angular in 2019
We don’t focus on much beyond the big releases and best tutorials when it comes to Angular, but if you’ve been wondering what’s going on with it, here’s an overview of the state of the Angular ecosystem.
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Riot.js: A Simple and Elegant Component-Based UI Library
An interesting alternative UI library that might click with you. “Think React + Polymer but without the bloat.” GitHub repo.
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The 10 React Component Commandments
A handy walkthrough of 10 ‘practical commandments’ for creating components that you can share widely and that other developers will actually want to use.
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Adding a WebAssembly Component to a React App with AssemblyScript
“If we are working on a React application for example, could we easily add some WebAssembly to support some things that perhaps need to run a bit quicker?” The answer is yes and here’s a practical demo.
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Tools & Code
An Introduction into Stencil.js
Stencil is a compiler that generates Web Components developed by the Ionic team.
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Bliss.js: Making Native APIs Nicer to Use from Vanilla JS
At first glance, you might think this looks a bit like jQuery, but it’s lighter and built with vanilla JS and modern standards in mind.. it just cleans up the rough edges of working with native browser APIs. The latest version includes some new methods such as $.load for loading JS or CSS resources and $.when for deferring code execution.
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The Weird History of JavaScript
A fun, 10 minute fly through of the history of JavaScript. This 10 minutes will give you some fun facts for your next dev conversation or JavaScript job interview ;-)
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The Cost of JavaScript in 2019
Almost a year ago, we linked to Addy Osmani’s Cost of JavaScript in 2018 article, and he’s back with an update for 2019 in both video and article forms. If you want to get a feel for where the true bottlenecks are with JavaScript right now, this is a must read.
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