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12 Tips for Improving JavaScript Performance
Half of your visitors expect a page to appear within 2 seconds so keeping your JavaScript fast is a must. Here are some relatively entry level tips to helping you on your way.
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Puppeteer Recorder 0.7: Records Browser Interactions and Turns Them into Puppeteer Scripts
Add this to Chrome, perform activities on the Web (now including taking screenshots), and you’re given editable code to re-run what you just did.
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What Are Higher-Order Functions, and Why Should You Care?
The latest in James Sinclair’s fantastic series of functional-focused articles. This time, he deftly tackles what everyone means by “higher-order function” and why you might use them.
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Babel 7.5.0 Released
The popular JavaScript compiler now includes an official plugin for dynamic imports (currently in stage 4) and the F# style pipeline operator. There’s also experimental support for TypeScript namespaces.
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Tools & Code
Frappe Charts: Simple and Modern SVG Charts
Aero dependencies, and supports bar, line, pie, and GitHub-style ‘heatmap’ charts.
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p5.js: A Client-Side JS Platform for Creative, Arty Coding
It’s a mature project but we haven’t linked to it for years and it’s just had a big release. Check out some of the examples in the live p5.js playground for a feel for how cool this is – it makes putting together visualizations and visual experiments very easy.
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'Svelte Is The Most Beautiful Web Framework I've Ever Seen'
Sure, it’s an opinion, but I enjoyed this (rather long) screencast where a developer finds his way with Svelte (an increasingly popular compile-time UI framework) by building a Tic-Tac-Toe game (or as we call it back in the UK, Noughts & Crosses!).
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Interesting Links
Emscripten and the LLVM WebAssembly Backend
Emscripten is switching to the LLVM WebAssembly backend. Why is this a good thing? It’ll make Emscripten faster, more efficient, and be able to adopt new WebAssembly features more quickly.
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